Dear Emma,

Thanks for all of your thoughts on how to help us. The daycare staff tend to rock her to sleep for naps though occasionally she’ll fall asleep on her own in a bouncer or boppy and then they transfer her. She also falls asleep on the bottle sometimes. She is generally still happy during wake times – I notice that she gets more clingy…

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Hi Emma,

We tracked sleep data all last week when she had no signs of any illness. I have taken your advice to do her last feed before bedtime in the living room and have also started to feed her in an upright sitting position now that her head control is good so that she’s less likely to fall asleep.

Just by chance there were two days that…

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Yes, her first nap is always around 9am plus or minus 10 minutes. At home, the first nap is almost always 27 minutes long, but at school they most often document 40 minutes (ranging anywhere between 20 to 90 minutes). Occasionally she falls asleep on her 10am bottle and then they have to put her down for another nap because they’re not allowed…

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Thanks Emma,

I think you might be right about sickness impacting her sleep – come to think of it she did need to be held upright (I didn’t think much of it at the time because she has always preferred to be held upright since birth) and the last few nights have been much better with her nose being fully clear. I just assumed she was always going…

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Hi Emma,

It has taken me a while to reply because it has been a bit of a roller coaster ride between a string of day care illnesses and what I think might be her 4 month sleep regression as she is now 16 weeks old.

Since my last message, she started napping better at day care and isn’t a complete puddle anymore when I take her home at the end…

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Dear Emma,

We started daycare this week which I knew was going to throw off her schedule, so I waited to see how she would do.

At home, we usually do wake up at 7-7:30 at the latest, first nap in the crib (lasts 25-35 minutes max), second and third naps start in the crib and then we extend them by picking her up to ~1.5 hours each to maintain…

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