How do you handle naps when one baby sleeps longer?
My girls will be 4 months on Sunday. They sleep great at night, bedtime at 6pm, typically waking at 130/2am and 5/530am to nurse then up for the day at 730am. They go down for a nap at 9am. E sleeps 45-60 minutes and A will sometimes sleep longer than that (going on 90 mins now) but then it screws up them being in sync for the rest of their naps. I'm trying to keep with 1.5 hour awake time because they get grumpy around then.
Do I try to keep E up longer or put A down earlier or some other solution? When they don't nap at the same times, I literally never get to play with DD1 so they have to. Lol
Olivia was always the better napper. But when they were on more than one nap, I'd wake her up no more than 30 minutes after danny woke up. I did this for all naps except the last one. That one, I let her sleep however much she wanted. She got cranky and fussy and I felt horrible because if she wasn't a twin, she'd sleep however much she needed to. But I needed to survive my days and I needed to ensure a break between them and DS1, so I woke her up. I'd open her door for a bit. Let the natural noise wake her up. If she didn't, I'd turn on the light. Wait for a bit. And if she was still asleep I'd start putting clothes away in her room. I found that her waking up like this was way better than me picking her up from her crib in a deep sleep.
I never let them get more than 30 minutes out of sync at that age. Mine had similar sleep requirements, so usually if As first nap was short his next was long, and W was the reverse, so it evened out. We use white noise and I would turn it off to wake up a sleeping baby. It was definitely a more gentle way to pull them from a deep sleep
I love this site for baby sleep help- at 4m, you're coming up on a major sleep regression, and it helped me to know (still does) what normal looked like, so we could aim for something close to it. This chart is simple and sleep deprived mama friendly: www.preciouslittlesleep.com/baby-sleep-what-is-normal/
I love this site for baby sleep help- at 4m, you're coming up on a major sleep regression, and it helped me to know (still does) what normal looked like, so we could aim for something close to it. This chart is simple and sleep deprived mama friendly: www.preciouslittlesleep.com/baby-sleep-what-is-normal/
Ah I know! DD1 hit it and never recovered. These two are much better sleepers by nature so fingers crossed we survive better.
Thanks for all the tips! Seems like 30 minutes is the magic number. I went two days of letting A sleep however longer she wanted and it was terrible. I was literally feeding, changing, then putting to sleep baby all.day.long. I never got a break and DD1 started acting out due to like 0 time to spend with her so hopefully I can keep them on similar schedules for a while longer.
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