Hi Emma,

Her paediatrician was not concerned with her weight at all so we are very relieved. I guess she just needs to feed at night at the moment and there is not much we can do about it.

I continue to feed her in a dimly lit quite room and I think she is getting a bit longer feeds but it is hard to tell. I wish she could get her daily…

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Hi Emma,

Thank you for all the advice for the feeds. I will definitely follow them. I actually just checked and the slowing in her weight gain coincides with the moment I stopped nursing her to sleep at night. This was one of my concerns at the time. Because she used to eat so much before finally falling asleep. Then I forgot about this…

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Hi Emma!

We just weighed her and she is not gaining weight as much lately. She has dropped a little under her curve between month 5 and 6, gaining only 270 g in the last month. So I really do think my supply has suffered a bit unfortunately…

The night wakes didn’t coincide with her learning to roll over. Yes, the last nap is usually shorter…

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Hi Emma,

Thank you so much.

I tried extending her wake windows quite a bit at a certain point but she seems to be happy with 105 minute wake windows at the moment, and not much longer than that. She wakes up between 6 and 7 am and has 3 naps per day. We make sure her last nap does not extend beyond 5:15pm as we put her down for the…

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Hi Emma,

We have made a lot of progress and our little one has grown so much since I last wrote. She will be 6 months old in a few days. She falls asleep independently in her own bed regularly and has slept for the whole night several times. We are truly impressed when it all goes this well. She was sleeping with 0 or 1 waking at night for…

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Hi Emma,

Absolutely, thank you. We had 2 successful naps where she fell asleep in her crib out of 10 attempts! 🙂 It looks like she is learning to self-sooth.

I have 2 questions:

– What I do now is that I try the pyramid for the first nap and call it quits if she is not asleep after 15-20 minutes (starting from when she cries). Is this a…

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Hi Emma!

We have tried the settling pyramid for the first nap of the day for a few days. We didn’t try for bedtime as we weren’t exactly sure of when her bedtime is (we have had some days where it was more around 7-7:30pm lately). Not sure it was a smart move anymore though.

She hasn’t fallen asleep in her bed unfortunately. What happens is that…

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Hi again,

I have a short update already 🙂

She has just fallen asleep for her first nap today. I tried to go
after 1.5 hour and she started crying when I started the nap routine. I
decided to wait a little longer this time and tried again after a 2
hour wake window when she was clearly tired. I went outside for a walk and after 15 minutes…

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Hi Emma,

Interesting! I didn’t even know that dropping the last nap was a thing. We have now followed your suggestions for a week and we have noticed some changes!

Here is the sleep schedule of the last days:

18/05:
7:08 wake-up
09:04 – 10:30 01:26
12:10 – 12:41 00:31
13:58 – 15:30 01:31
16:56 – 17:30 00:33

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Hi Emma!

A quick question 🙂

Do you have a recommendation for the last nap of the day? Very often she starts to cry a lot as soon as we enter the room and she understands she needs to sleep for the last nap. We cannot really pinpoint if we take her too early or too late. She usually shows some tired signs before but they are not as clear as in…

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Yes, it all sounds very good. Thank you for clarifying and explaining how to go about the last nap. We’ll do all this and I’ll come back to you with an update in a few days. Have a nice week!

Leonor

Haha, yes, I use a tracking app so it wasn’t hard to write everything down 🙂

Thank you, yes it makes sense to wait a little and see if we get a better idea of her rhythm first. I have some questions to your suggestions that I wrote below.

• Wake her up every morning between 7:00–7:30am.

Yes, sounds good

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Hello Emma,

Thank you for your reply. Absolutely, I am more than happy to answer all the questions!

1. Does she have a consistent wake-up time? If so, what time and is it fairly regular?
   Not exactly but my goal is to have a consistent wake-up at 7:30. It
   happens that we oversleep until 8:00 or 8:30 at the latest. These are
   her wake-up times of…

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Here comes a little update already. I have tried twice for the first and second naps and she slept less than 20 minutes both times. She woke up when I tried to transfer her the second time. It looks like she scans her surroundings many times during the first phase of her cycle, opening her eyes.

It didn’t work to put her in her crib though as…

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Hello Emma,

Thank you for a very informative course. We are almost done with the course but haven’t started to implement anything yet. We have a 3 month old that sleeps all of her naps worn in a baby wrap. They are usually 2 or 3 naps per day, with at least one lasting 2-4 hours. At night I nurse her to sleep and transfer her once she is in… Read more