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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Thanks Emma,

I found these and your live demonstration videos helpful, particularly that my baby is now 5 months old. She is napping 30mins-1hr for each nap now with 3-4 naps as you described in your 4 months sample schedule, and we are transitioning to remove the swaddle now that she is nearly but hasn’t rolled yet. Her night sleep is…

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Thanks Emma,

Like you said I found that 2.5 hours is too long especially for their first nap, so I’ve now cut it back to 2hrs moving gradually to 2.5 for her last nap.

You’d mentioned before that she was self-settling at nap time, but it sounds like she may be relying more on the pacifier at the moment. Could you update me on how you’re…

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Dear Emma,

My baby is now 4.5 months old.

Your advice has been great, now using a sized up diaper she no longer leaks overnight.

We had a few family events such as weddings and dinners in the last week so we had to get her to sleep in the pram outside with walking her and using the rokit. Now that these have ended and she’s back to sleeping at…

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Dear Emma

I followed this schedule for my 3-month-old and it worked very well.

She is now turning 4 months soon. How do we change her times as she grows older? Can you provide a sample routine for a 4-month-old based on this?

Thanks

Julia

Thanks, this is great advice, will do this and let you know it goes!

Thanks, that’s right!

It’s a big improvement now that last night, she slept 8pm, woke at 11.15pm, and woke again at 3.25am and 6.15am. I normally put her back down after so she woke at 7.30am. This was without a diaper change, and I found that by the 7.30am wake she soakes pee onto the bedding. The soaking has been quite consistent by…

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Thanks Emma,

I’ve started not to feed her between bedtime at 7/8pm and 12am.. she just makes it as she wakes at 11/1130pm ish, goes back to sleep with the paci only to wake up half an hour later. It’s like she has decided to go on strike as she woke every hour last night. Could this be coincidentally the 4 month sleep regression or is this a…

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Thanks for your kind words and advice! These are very helpful.

She normally goes to bed around 8-9pm, so I was pushing it when I tried to put her down for bedtime at 7:20pm the other day. I did anyway as it was 2hours after her last wake. She couldn’t go back to sleep straight away after waking so I waited for an hour before her next…

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Thanks, this makes sense!

I’ve now managed to bring her bedtime to about 8-9pm, but she is back to waking every 2-3 hours, for example, it’s as follows last night:

5.20pm – Wakes from final nap

7.20pm – Bedtime (1hr sleep)

8.20pm – Wake + feed

9.00pm – Sleep (3hrs sleep)

12.00am – Wake + feed

12.10am – Sleep (2hrs sleep)

2.10am – Wake + feed

2.20am…

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Thanks Emma,

I think this year the summer that hit UK/Europe has been particularly hot! Our A/C is well worth it. It also serves as a background white noise.

I have now rewatched the 4 month regression video. Thanks for the tips there.

To answer your question:

To help her learn how to fall asleep on her own I was wondering if you could provide…

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Hi Emma,

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I have tried my best to implement them as follows.

Cap her Daytime Naps & Keep Wake Windows to a Max of 2 Hours

I have now capped her daytime naps to 2 hours and keep her wake windows to a max of 2 hours.

However, on some days, she has a long 3hr nap in the morning till about noon (eg…

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1. Does your little one have a consistent wake-up time, that occurs within the same 30-minute window? If so what time is it?

She does not have a consistent wake up time. Typically there is a wake up time between 6-8am but for example this morning, after waking at 4.40am and feeding, she could not sleep until 7am. I think partly the reason…

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Hi Emma,

I have found your course very useful so far particularly the live videos and this forum. It is comforting to know that many of us are in the same boat and that a good routine works.

I have a 11 week old daughter. She is exclusively breastfed.

Before, she would sleep generally between 11pm-7am with 2-3 wakes overnight until recently about…

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