Hi Emma,

I will be contacting our pediatric department as, I think, there is nothing I can do about our baby’s sleep.

We have tried to implement your advice, but it is not going anywhere. She sometimes can sleep these 3 hour stretches, but it is rare and not the first one at night. Some days she can sleep solid naps and some just 20 min. Some…

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Hi Emma,

To answer your questions:

1. You mentioned that for naps you stand by the crib for 2 mins or until her movement and finger sucking slows down before laying her in the crib. Is she asleep when you lay her down in the crib or awake?

I think, she is awake, but sleepy. It is very dark in our bedroom, so can not see if she opens her eyes.…

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Hi Emma,

Since the last time I wrote to you we have been implementing nap routine in her crib. She is connecting nap cycles now. However, it is not completely predictable when she would have a long sleep and when she would have a shorter one. If we follow her tiredness ques setling is fast and easy. If we try to push the wake window longer…

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Hi Emma,

I will try to shortly go through what we are implementing.

Solids – no real difference in her sleep after she does a bowel movement.

Pacifier – we used it only in a pram. I have removed it and there was no problem. She falls asleep well.

Naps – we can not get the pram into a bedroom. So we can only do outdoor pram walks.

We started a…

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Ah and the normal night time sleep time is somewhere from 8.20 to 8.40 (her falling asleep in her crib after evening routine).

P.S. not sure if this is relevant, but this month, she has started solids. In Finland, the advice is to give tasting portions 1-2 spoons of vegetables, meat, and fish starting from 4 months old. It is done to…

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