More than 45 mins please!

[Poppy'smum]

Hi guys,
Just wondering how you get your bubs to do more than 45 mins sleep during the day??
I just cant get mine to do any more at a time.
She is 4 1/2 months now
She wakes up talking to herself and laughing, but if I get her up she is obviously still tired and grizzles til the next nap (about 2 hours later)
Should I just leave her there to cry back to sleep??
At the moment she sleeps in a gro-bag with door closed, but her room is very light because of a huge window that I have tried to black out as much as possible.
NIght time is fine, one wake for a breastfeed at 3am only, so I am not really complaining!!!:p
Ta!

[xkwzit]

Hi Poppy'sMum
My DD1 was the same and she just grew out of it. She never really settled on her own well until she was older, so when she woke at 45 min (normal sleep cycle length for a young baby), she wouldn't go back to sleep either. So as her sleep cycles got longer, her naps got longer ad eventually she would do the 2 hour sleeps.

They are all different. DD2 slept like a trooper :confused: .

Cheers

[Supermum]

My DD1 was the same and she just grew out of it. They are all different. DD2 slept like a trooper :confused: .Cheers

Ditto! DS NEVER slept longer than 10 minutes at a time up until around 6 months. DD ALWAYS slept at least 2 hours at a time during the day.

[Supermum]

Should I just leave her there to cry back to sleep??
I'd say no - get her up ... she's obviously not interested in the bed so get her up and active and doing stuff with you! Then try again next tired sign .... good luck!

[addictedtobabe]

If she is lying talking and playing I would leave her, she might drop back off...my little man often does this...I used to dash in to get him up and then one day I was on an important call and could hear him chatting away then suddenly it stopped, he had gone back to sleep.

Saying that he used to only do 45min and then wake crying and would not resettle...for some reason he just started to stretch things out, particularly at 51/2 months when he got solids :)

[Sonja]

My 5 month old dd does exactly the same thing and I have agonised over what to do. There is another thread in this forum which sets out a very reassuring passage from Baby Love about "catnappers". It's worth searching the threads and having a read of it. There seems to be two choices: get them up and accept that they may be tired again soon, or put them back down again straight away (by patting / shushing, which is likely to cause alot of protest and crying). Personally, I would never leave a baby under 6 months to cry alone. A mother I know had help with this and was able to get her baby to sleep longer by patting / shushing, but she said it generally only worked when her boy hadn't really woken up - ie his eyes were still shut. The Baby Whisperer also suggests that at around the 30 minute mark you start patting them and this may help them get over the first sleep cycle (which is about 45 mins) and into the next. I have tried this a few times but unfortuntely with no success. I too hope that she starts to grow out of it!

[Peaceangels]

Make sure she is really tired, lots of tummy time before bed or take her for a walk (I have found a walk in the fresh air does wonder's in getting them sleepy).

It could just be a phase (they go thru so many), or you may have a baby that prefer's to do her longest sleeping at night time (nothing to complain about), just makes it hard for you to get things done during the day.

I have one good sleeper and one not so good sleeper and that has been the case from day 1 for both.

[sugar n spice]

Have you tried a dummy? Ummm what else well if bub is happy and not crying when she awakes then id say leave her and when she cries get her up otherwise see if she will go back to sleep though 45mins is still pretty good.