Hi Emma,

Just wondering how I can best support my baby. There’s a few things going on with sleep currently.

Daytime: naps are around 30-45 minutes at the moment. They were more like an hour and have recently got shorter. She then can stay awake for 1.5 – 2 hours before getting grizzly. But seems a bit more quick to moan then when she was sleeping…

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Hi emma,

So sometimes (quite often) my baby cries when I rock her at sleep time/ as soon as she realises it’s sleep time so the lights low, song and rocking. I’ve tried rocking her for longer but the crying tends to escalate. Then one day I just put her down crying she immediately stopped and fell asleep.

Now I try to make the song and the…

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Hi Emma,

Thanks a bunch, yes I’ll try that this week and let you know next week if there’s been any change.

😁

Hi Emma ,

Thanks for the advice, I’ve done a few things and I’ve answered the other questions below.

Bedtime routine:

Lights dimmed, Change nappy, massage, pjs, sleep sack, lights off, sound on, song then crib.

I settle her with a bit of rocking. And I put her down eyes open.

Nap routine:

Sleep sack on, Curtains closed, lights off, sound machine…

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So she wakes up around 7:15 in the morning and if she hasn’t I’ll make her by latest 7:45. She then usually is tied and falls asleep after an hour of wake time and that’s pretty consistent – without me putting her to sleep it’s the one nap where she gives real clear sleepy cues and falls of to sleep easily.

The rest of her naps are a bit more…

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Hi!

So we started as a contact napper and co-sleeping. And we’ve slowly transitioned into the next to me crib. we’ve started practicing napping in the crib for one nap since 7 weeks. And we are now at a point where she sleeps in the crib for all naps and also night time sleep – for the last 3 weeks (with a couple of unsuccessful…

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