no day sleeps!

[maddymoo]

My little 7 month old has recently decided to have two sleeps of only half an hour during the day. One at about 8:30 am and then about 12:00. She gets tired again at 3:00 but just wont settle off to sleep. I just leave her in her cot to see what happens but she babbles and plays for up to an hour. She does'nt get cranky, she actually goes quite silly and gets really hyped up which is making it harder to get her down at night.
I realise she is probably at the age where she only wants two day sleeps but i feel they should be longer than half an hour ( not much peace for mum) She does sometimes wake up cranky and tired still, but i have never been able to resettle her.

She is teething now, i have given panadol, brauer and nurofen - but she still wont sleep!

have any of you experienced this? And was there any solution?

[squirtle81]

My 8 month old has 2 sleeps a day and they are both for about an hour and a half. When she was younger, she never slept more than half an hour, so i went to child and youth health and they showed me how to settle her through the day, such as wrapping and patting her to sleep, i havn't had any more sleeping problems through the day. Maybe give them a ring and see if they can help you.

Good Luck!!

[munsket]

Hi,
My DD is 8 months old & has started doing something very similar. Today for example, she woke at 5.30 am went back down at 7am for only 45mins. Around 10.30 am she went down again for only half an hour or so. She has been up since 11 am til only just 15 minutes ago. What an effort!
She normally has 3 sleeps a day at least an hour and a half each spread out about 2 hours from waking to sleeping again but the last couple of days she's changing it up.
I feel really weary!! :sleeping:
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's bub is doing this. She's also teething. I gave her Brauer & that seemed to help some. Her little gums are so red & swollen & you can almost see the little pegs just under the skin. I hope they come soon for her sake.

Good luck with your little one.

[Noeysmum]

Hi

My boy used to have 2 naps in the day at hour and a half long...........one at 10:30am and another at 2-3pm.................. sometimes he would wake up 45mins into the nap but i found out that is when they are crossing over into a more active sleep and if he would wake up and cry i would leave him and he would go back to sleep for another 45mins.

now i am having trouble cause he is nearly 15months and if he has his morning nap at 10:30 am he wants to sleep for nearly 3 hours.............so i try drag him out so he can have one nap in the afternoon but he cant make it and misses out on lunch...............and then gets tired way early then his bed time...................this is stressing me out it is screwing up his whole routing.

Hey munsket and mandymoo when your baby is teething it ruins your babys whole routine................our found that noahs routine got way messed up before i realised he was teething....................it used to stress me out, but you will find they usually just go back to there normal routine once they have finished teething......................except this time i know he is not teething he is just going from 2 naps to one very slowly.

[tyler's mum]

i'm lucky if tyler will have 2 half hour sleeps,,, she does get moody but will not go to sleep,, she normally only has little cap naps like for 10/15mins,,,, she is also teething as been since she was 2months:rolleyes: .... dymodon works great and does make her go to sleep