Thanks Emma.

Her first nap has shortened now to about 50 mins and her second nap has now lengthened to 1-2 hours, so that’s great news.

I also took your advice and brought her third nap earlier to 4.30pm and that works.

However, what if her second naps extends beyond 2.30pm? Does that mean I keep her awake until 7pm? Would that be time to…

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I forgot to mention that baby is now nearly 7 months old.

Regarding her routine, I bring her into my room, dress her in a sleep sack, and sing a song to her and put her down. Then I leave the room. She is normally awake and settles to sleep on her own.

The lights are normally already turned off and airconditioner turned on a few minutes prior…

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Dear Emma

Thank you so much, Emily has started to sleep through the night! It is glorious, and am very grateful. However, wanting to optimise her sleep, her naps in the day time are still short.

Her daytime schedule is something like this:

6.30-7am : Wake

8.30/9am : Nap 1 (45 minutes)

12pm : Nap 2 (45 minutes)

3.30pm : Nap 3 (30-45 minutes)

7.30-8pm…

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Thanks Emma

This was very helpful. I found that a bedtime of 8-8.30pm suits my lifestyle and she wakes up at around 7-8am. Her naps are relatively short, totaling to about 1.5-2hrs in the daytime.

Currently I pump milk in the morning, to top up her bedtime feed, as I noticed without it, she wakes a few minutes after being put down. Do you…

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Thanks Emma

This is very helpful. I’ll try to wake her at around the same time every day.

So you would recommend to still achieve roughly a 7-8pm sleep time and a 7am wake time? It’s tempting to get her to sleep later while we’re on holiday.

Thanks

Julia

Dear Emma

Baby Emily is now nearly 6 months old.

She was able to sleep without the arms in swaddle and now able to in a grobag sleep sack. After that, her sleep was quite good, having 3 naps a day, with the first or second nap lasting 1-2 hours. She normally sleeps at 7pm and wakes at 7am with 2 overnight wakes. However, we have recently traveled…

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Thanks Emma,

Her daytime naps are now usually 30mins-1hr with the longest being the lunchtime nap. I no longer use the pacifier for daytime naps. I think this is getting better.

For night time, I did arms out of the swaddle last night after nearly a week of transitioning with 1 arm out (which she managed) but I don’t think the transition really…

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