Hi all,

My LO (8 months) has done well with sleep training. Except she always cries when i transfer her to bed. I watch the time and she always stops between 1-3 minutes in and falls asleep not long after.

She is still waking to feed once or twice during the night. It is a lot when she screams on top of her lungs at 2am when i put her back to her bed.

And so I'm wondering if your kiddos did the same and when they stopped. Bonus points if they were a similar age!

For those who sleep trained their babies how are they doing now as toddlers? Do they still sleep well? Do they have a hard time going to sleep or have an elongated bedtime routine as they’ve gotten older or are they still pretty good at putting themselves to bed despite being older?

We moved our LO to 2 naps at 7.5 months while we were sleep training and it worked fine for a week or two. Since then she has had horrible split nights. We tried capping naps, extending naps, stretching wake windows, literally everything and every schedule i saw recommended online and by friends. She would be awake for 1 hour minimum every single wake up and it was horrible for all of us.
I moved my 9 month old back to 3 naps on a whim and she’s sleeping through the night again.
I genuinely just don’t think she could handle those longer wake windows and does better with her sleep more evenly distributed throughout the day :)

Hoping this might help someone with a similar baby! (Baby sleep makes no sense sometimes so trust your gut <3 )

Our second baby is 9 months old next week. She started sleeping through the night (7 pm to 7 am) at 4 months old. At 6 months, she started sleeping in her room in her crib. No disruptions, still 12 hours of great sleep. She even would wake up in the morning and just be happy to chill for a while.

However, at the end of April, she started waking up twice a night. Once at 1ish am and once at 4ish am, before waking up at 7 am for the day. The whole night wake up is very quick- diaper change, bottle, she immediately falls back asleep and transfers to her crib no problem. Start to finish it’s 10 minutes. When this started, she was close to crawling (now crawling and standing) *and* was teething, so I figured this was your standard regression. Our first never had any regressions (unicorn sleeper) so this was all new to us, but we figured it would pass in a few weeks. However, it’s now been almost 7 weeks of this and we don’t know what to do.

We tried capping her naps, and it left her absolutely feral and cranky all day, and she still woke up twice at night. We always give her 10 minutes at night to try and settle, but she does not self soothe back to sleep. We tried going in and soothing her without picking her up, but that just makes her hysterical, and we end up having to get her anyways. So we’ve just been giving a bottle because at least it’s fast and she’s obviously hungry. But maybe that’s feeding into the problem? We just don’t know where to go from here. Ride it out? Try something new? I have no idea.

Current nap schedule is up at 7 am, nap at 10 am, nap at 2 pm, bedtime at 8 pm. So 3/2.5/4. The second wake window is so short, but she is always totally ready for a nap at 2 and she falls asleep instantly. I thought about pushing her nap to 3 pm, but I’m worried that will make her sleep worse because she’s napping so late in the day. However I am open to any suggestions for how to improve our schedule!

Anyone have advice on what needs to be changed to hopefully get her sleeping through the night again?

8 month old, we aim for 3/3.5/4 but it depends on how long he naps for.

He’ll do 1.5 hrs in the morning if he’s out in his stroller (so that’s what I try to do every day) or driving. Otherwise his naps are ~40 minutes max. We‘ve moved to two naps because he was fighting his last nap like crazy and then it got so late that it was pushing bedtime to like 9pm — but he wakes up around 5am no matter what.

Obviously there’s already a couple of issues there, but the thing that’s killing me is overnight sleep. He goes down for bedtime like a dream. We do solids, bath, bottle, books and playtime for 30 mins and then put him down awake with a pacifier. He goes to sleep on his own and stays asleep for several hours.

But overnight he wakes up a ton. First wake between 11-midnight to eat, then he tends to wake up anowhere from every 30mins to a hour screaming - whether his pacifier is in or not - before waking up for good around 5.

I don’t understand what I’m supposed to do about this. I’m so tired that my brain actually can’t process what time it is overnight — whether he should need to eat or not. I have walked into walls multiple times. I often just find myself shoving a boob in his mouth because it’s the only thing that will calm him down. The past week I’ve just been sleeping on the floor in his room because I don’t trust myself to be safe walking down the hall to him. The idea that I’m supposed to do the sleep training check ins throughout the night just doesn’t seem physically possible? Is that my only option?

ETA - he freaks out if his dad goes in to check on him overnight — it always makes it 100% worse. So all the nights are up to me.

i have already posted about the almost instant success of doing a modified ferber method but i now can say i feel like he is successfully sleep trained!

i put my 5.5 month old down awake 10(ish) mins before his wake window ends and he has successfully fell asleep on his own 3 days straight!

he wakes once a night for feedings still but now he just goes back to sleep with little to no fussing! if a check in is needed it’s once and that’s it!

now unfortunately i need to get my body to realize that we are no longer in fight or flight mode so i can get some sleep lol

I haven't needed to sleep train my daughter because I was happy to get up overnight and she hadn't been to bad to get to sleep, until now.

In the last year or so we have culled Breastfeeding, bottles and pacifiers, so no longer have any crutches.

She has been in her single bed since just before 1 because she hated a cot.

She wakes up around 6am each morning, has a 1-2hr nap around 1130am, then her bedtime routine starts around 630pm after dinner.

Bedtime routine is bath time, pajamas, a snack if she needs one, teeth, bit of chatting, stories and bed.

Bedtime is usually 745ish.

In the last 2 months she has been incredibly abusive towards me, hitting, biting, pinching etc. Her stalling is excessive, gets distracted by blankets, my face, pillows, the curtain string, water, wanting to get up, anything!!

Most nights i end up swaddling her and rocking her to sleep because I need her to stop hitting me. During this she screams at me telling me to get away.

I sometimes then try to leave the room to have a break from the abuse. She gets up immediately and tries to leave the room, if I hold the door shut she screams and/or unpacks everything in her room.

Doesn't seem to make any difference if she has had a busy day, active day, skipped her nap, gone to bed early/late, snacks, yoto before bed.

Once asleep, she usually sleeps throught the night once she has gone to sleep which I am very grateful for.

About my toddler: she is pure chaos, a bit scrawny but a pocket rocket for sure, she is sweet natured but lacks impulse control, she is a great problem solver and generally very happy. I sometimes wonder if she has a degree of ADHD or if it's just toddlerhood.

Any advice is greatly appreciated 🩷

Hello! Fortunately, I have a great nighttime sleeper overall.

For months, my daughter (9.5 months) has consistently woken up around 4:30 a.m. Recently that has shifted closer to 5:30 a.m., which is an improvement, but it's still earlier than we'd like to start the day.

She has an age-appropriate bedtime, usually around 7:30–8:00 p.m. With summer activities, it's occasionally closer to 8:30 p.m., but that doesn't seem to affect the early wake-up. She's also in the 99th percentile for weight (24.5 lbs and 30 inches long), and her pediatrician previously told us she no longer needs overnight feeds.

My question is about what happens when she wakes up.

Historically, when she wakes around 5:30, it may take me 20–30 minutes to get into her room because she's often just quietly awake. Then she'll nurse for 10–20 minutes, and it can take another 15–30 minutes for her to fall back asleep. In total, she's awake for about an hour, but then she'll sleep until around 7:45–8:15 a.m., which works really well for our family.

The last two mornings, instead of going in, I've let her try to get back to sleep on her own. She eventually does, but she's awake in her crib for a little over an hour before falling back asleep.

Is that too long for her to be awake in the crib? Should I be going in and feeding her? If I continue letting her resettle independently (assuming she's content and not crying), is there a chance she'll eventually eliminate this wake-up altogether?

I'd love to hear from anyone who's experienced something similar.

EDIT TO ADD WAKE WINDOWS BELOW:

We are on a two-nap schedule. With wake windows as follows 3/3.5/3.75.

My baby is 7 months old. He started sleeping poorly at night and refusing nap 3 so we moved to a 2 nap day.

We follow the 3/3/4 sceduale. It worked wonderfully at first as his naps were quite long (roughly 90 minutes each).

Then his naps shortened for some reason and following 3/3/4 brought his bedtime earlier and earlier each day.

For example, last night he went to bed at 6 20. Today, he was up at 5 20.

Today, he might nap an hour each nap which bring his bedtime too early again and now we can expect another unreasonably early wake up tomorrow.

What can I do to improve the waking time? At least bring it up till 6 am? Try to squeeze in a cat nap? That would bring bedtime really late and it hasn't worked for us before which is why we switched to 2 naps in the first place.

I have two older kids whose bedtime is late and these endlessly long days are killing me.

Our 8 month old has always been pretty bad at sleeping in the early hours of the morning, but I’m starting to lose it! There’s a few things happening.
1. Hell wake up once through the night for a bottle, which is fine, but if it’s anytime after like 3am he has a haaaard time going back to sleep and we need to hold him or bring him into bed.
2. Sometimes if he wakes up earlier in the night he’ll go back down but then wake up around 4:30/5 and won’t go back to sleep, even with assistance.

We sleep trained him (CIO) around 5 months, his schedule is approx. 3/3.5/4.25 - however when he wakes up super early I’ll get him as close to 9am for his first nap as possible, so bedtime pretty much always falls between 7-7:30. I don’t let him nap for more than 2.5 hours in total during the day.

Advice? Solidarity? When did it end if you went through something similar???

My 8 month old is really a good napper and is good at falling asleep by herself. Some nights I put her to bed at 7 if she had two solid naps and if she had three naps I put her to bed between 8:30-9.
The part I am struggling with is at night she still needs 1-2 bottles. If it is a two bottle night it is usually around 11-12 and then a 4:30ish bottle.

It doesn’t really bother us to feed her and that could be part of the issue. We would rather feed her than hear her cry. We did Ferber around 5 months and it worked but now she will cry for way longer till she gets the bottles. And some nights she only needs one bottle around 3:30. So out situation doesn’t feel out of control, but I wonder if this is something I need to actively work at or will
It just work itself out.

I am willing to wait it out if she will just grow
out of it. I know it could be a lot worse!

Co-slept until about age 18 months. Didn’t drop from 2 to 1 nap until 19 months old. He was always the most sensitive sleeper compared to our oldest. He never just napped long stretches as a newborn. It almost felt like he was colicky, but he wasn’t. Maybe just oversupply from me. Always needed contact naps. Anyway, we have powered through so much sleep woes. We hit our breaking point and sleep trained him at about 18-19 months old, so he could mostly nap independently. He was getting better and better with time. Still waking a a few times at night, but much more predictably.

I think he hit his 2 year regression because all of sudden he was nursing CONSTANTLY again. Definitely signs of more separation anxiety. Lots of language development. In this period of time, he started waking consistently at 4:30am. I think this regression has peaked, but this 4:30am wake up is not stopping. We are dying. He wakes up at 4:30am. We try to get him to hold off on milk until at least 5:30am. By then, he is wide awake even with boob. Then, he desperately wants boob at 6:30 or 7am. He will then fall asleep for 45 min to 60 min, which feels like him finishing his night time sleep. The problem is, I doze off with him because I’m exhausted. My husband takes him on a run to get him out of the house or else he wakes up his sister. But then he will fall asleep in the stroller.

He has been an earlier napper (like my daughter), always around 11am-1pm or 11:30-1:30pm. We have tried everything. Pushing bedtime, moving up bedtime, shortening nap, keeping him up, or cutting off his morning cat nap after 10 min, getting outside a LOT for circadian rhythm, blackout curtains. YOU NAME IT. Ahhhh!!

Anyone else have any thoughts?

Edit:

4:30a wake up - cries in crib asking for mom/dad/sis/anyone/will say he‘s pooped/needs a drink/dropped his stuffy outside of the crib. We have tried going back to co-sleeping thinking it was separation anxiety, but he’ll still wake and fuss/cry and doze in and out every 2 minutes.
5:30am - I succumb and give him boob. He stays awake. Goes off to hang with Dad, while I try to catch up on sleep.
6:30am (varies up to about 7:30am) - He desperately needs boob. Dad brings him to me. I milk him, and then I doze off and then wake up and realize he’s been sleeping for 45-60 min.

Wakes up from this cat nap at 7:30-8am.

11am-1pm is goal nap time. Sometimes goes to sleep at 11:30am or as late as 12:30 depending on when he woke up from cat nap (and just life, sigh). I will say, even if he wakes up at 8am from the cat nap, he would probably still go down by 11am-11:30am.

7:15pm-7:30pm bedtime.

He goes down easily for naps and bedtimes. I realize his morning cat nap is his body finishing off night time sleep, but also counting as daytime sleep. Which then impacts night time sleep. But even if I boob him right at 4:30am, he won’t fall back asleep!!! He is still awake. I don’t understandddd. We have tried to just keep him awake until his mid day nap. Sometimes, he’s woken up halfway through his usual nap, and I just kept him awake. Still wakes up at 4:30am!!!

My son just turned 1 on May 21st. He’s never been the best sleeper, he’s up at least once a night. We sleep trained around 9 months old using modified Ferber, and it was great but did a backslide fast. Still waking up at least once in the night.

Lately though, he’s been having a horrible time sleeping all around. Waking up in the night and screaming for hours even though he’s absolutely exhausted, today he woke up at 4:24 am and didn’t calm down until 6 AM. He is teething, but I do all I can before bed to make him more comfortable…

His schedule is 3/3.75/4. Naps are pretty decent. Anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. Could this be part of the issue?

Honestly this is affecting my mental health at this point. He’s an extremely cranky baby even when he sleeps well and he’s quick to upset…all that together has just been so hard lately.

I’ve had his ears checked at his last appointment last week and they were perfect. So it’s not that.

Someone please HELP. 😭

I know this schedule wouldn't work for a lot of people and most here would recommend a 1 nap day, but this schedule has saved my sanity this week so I thought I'd document it in case anyone else encountering issues wanted to try it.

Babe is what I would consider low sleep needs averaging 10 to 11 hours sleep in 24 hours (only does 11 hours when I nail the schedule perfectly).

She has been like this since her first sleep regression at 3.5 months and following all the standard advice and wake windows just led us down a road of terrible sleep for everyone involved.

After a rocky few weeks of illness and teething I was completely thrown off schedule wise and sleep had gone to shit with multiple nights of being kept up to 4am.

I tried going to 1 nap, but babe was getting overtired and waking hourly at night. I was getting no sleep as she did her best sleep between 8:30 and 11pm and then was a mess for the rest of the night.

I LOVE a late bedtime as it means I go to bed the same time as baby and this is what gets me the most sleep. I don't get any time for myself but sleep trumps everything else.

Wake windows are 3.75/4.25/5.

Naps are 1 hour (ish) and 40 mins (ish).

7am wake up, 10pm asleep and 1 overnight wake quick to resettle. I have not night weaned yet as I have not yet garnered the energy to..

I suspect we will be moving to a 1 nap schedule once she can handle 6 and 7 hour wake windows...

Struggling with too much awake time, around 11-12hrs which I think is causing early morning wakes 5-530am.

My son is 7.5 months corrected and can handle 3 hour wake windows, but we often get early morning wakes (around 5:00 to 5:45am) and short naps (30 to 40 mins).

Because of the early start and short naps, I end up needing a third nap or bedtime would be well before 530pm. It feels like we're stuck between schedules.

How to avoid too much awake time? For example yesterday was 3/3.5/2.5/ then Bridge nap and wouldn't go down before 2.5hrs at 730pm.

Would love to hear others' experiences.

Second time parent to a two month old. We are planning to sleep train around 5 months.

We did a modified Ferber at 5 months with our first and it was really great - but they stuck their thumb to self-soothe. So far our second is still finding their hands, and uses a soother sometimes. If they don’t end up sucking their thumb too, how does sleep training work successfully? I’d rather not spend my life replacing their soother!

Hello,

I need help fixing my 22-week-old baby's sleep schedule so he sleeps better at night.

For the past 3 days, he has been waking up around 7:30 AM. His first nap usually starts around 9:30 AM. Recently, I extended his wake windows to 3 hours because he was fighting naps and bedtime. Since doing that, he falls asleep much more easily with little to no resistance. Last week, he used to wake up 4 times at night every 2 hours. but now only three times with noticeably longer stretches

The issue is that his naps are now about 1 or 1.5 hours each. By 5:00 PM or 6:00 PM, I'm unsure whether I should start his bedtime routine or give him a fourth nap. If I give him a short 20-minute fourth nap, it pushes bedtime to around 9:00 PM.

Also, I know babies shouldn't sleep later than 8:00 PM, but when he does, he sleeps a first longer stretch 4 hours....

I'm conflicted because he seems to tolerate 3-hour wake windows well now, but I'm not sure what the best approach is.

Should I:

1. Keep the 3-hour wake windows and accept a later bedtime?
2. Wake him earlier in the morning and cap his naps so he can maintain 3-hour wake windows but still have a bedtime closer to 7:00 PM?
3. Follow a different schedule altogether?

What would you recommend for a 22-week-old who is handling 3-hour wake windows well and taking two 1.5-hour naps?

We just retrained our 11 month old and she sleeps from 8pm to 4:50AM. But these early mornings wake ups are killing me. She will dose off if I'm holdong and patting her, but immediately screams awake if I sit my butt down, even if I don't change the angle I'm holding her. She also cried with her eyes closed if I keep trying to sit down. I've tried to let her cry it out but the sleep pressure is so low that it only did the opposite. I'll normally give up at 6AM and start the day.

Her first nap is no earlier than 9:45. Total daytime nap 2-2.5 hours. WW is 4/3.5/3.75 (first one so long because of the EMW). The room is dark and white noise plays all night long. She's not too hot or cold. I'm awake at 4:45 this morning and laid still in my bed. At 4:53 she woke up like a clock and there was no noise or whatsoever that woke her up.

Please help...it's so early and exhausting to start every day this way

My 7.5 month old has been relentlessly waking every hour overnight, and I’m at a loss as to why or what I might be doing wrong. Some nights are better than others, and she’ll occasionally give me a 3-hour stretch, but over the last few days things have really taken a turn for the worse.

She wakes around 7am and follows 3 / 3.5 / 4 wake windows. I cap her total daytime sleep at 2.5 hours, and she goes to sleep independently from awake at bedtime.

The biggest struggle is the early morning wakes. If she’s been crying for more than 20 minutes, the only thing that seems to settle her is nursing.

I’m just feeling really stuck and unsure what I’m missing. If anyone has any pointers, suggestions, or similar experiences, I’d really appreciate hearing them. 😭 Could this simply come down to temperament? She is an intense screamer and does not take well to trying to calm down.

Our LO is 3.5 months. We moved her to a sleep sack around 2 months because the girl loves her hands.

She’s a great night time sleeper (usually wakes around the 8 hour mark for her paci then she sleeps again until it’s time to wake up). Sometimes getting her down at night takes 1 or 2 paci re-inserts but it’s usually pretty easy.
Naps are the same, easy to get down, but the issue is that some naps the last 3-4 weeks have been short - waking before 30 minutes and then it’s the paci game to try to extend and I know she isn’t getting restorative sleep.

My question is - would this be a good case to try the Merlin suit? I’m afraid it’s a backslide since she’s been in a sleep sack for so long and doing mostly ok. If we did use it my thought was to use it for naps only, but not sure if that will confuse her and then just be an issue moving her back to the sleep sack again later.

I’m also not sure if the 4 month regression is going to come for us and maybe at that point it would make more sense to use it? She also starts daycare in a month and I’m nervous about her ability to nap there.

Schedule is roughly: 1/1.5/1.5/1.5/2

She’s definitely always been a high sleep needs baby and can’t tolerate longer wake windows.

Thanks!

About a month ago we started to experience some sleep issues at bedtime with my previously great sleeper. He is roughly 10.5, almost 11 months and not sleep trained. Before, I’d put him down fully asleep (nurse to sleep), and he’d sleep through the night or have one wake. I could even sometimes put him down awake and he’d fall asleep on his own. He takes his naps independently in his crib usually fine during the day. However within the last month, naps have stayed okay, but he will wake a couple hours after I put him down just screaming and crying, and it will take rocking and usually at least an hour or two and a couple attempts to get him back down for good. He had a rough couple weeks, then a really good week, and right back to it last night. It took 2 attempts to get him back to sleep, and even 30 mins after that transfer, he woke crying but fell back asleep within a couple mins (I try to give him 5 mins when he starts to cry bc he can calm himself down, unless he’s clearly escalating). Editing to add: after a few failed transfers or rocking attempts, he usually does fall asleep for a stretch. Sometimes it’s 5-6 hours until he wakes crying again, sometimes it’s around 7-8 and he wakes just fine and dandy in the morning.

I want to be able to put him down awake so the first wake up in between sleep cycles isn’t so jarring for him, but I worry it’s not a good time to start sleep training. He seems to have bad separation anxiety, and I’ve no clue if he’s teething. He has no teeth yet, so idk what to look for. I guess I’m here to ask, when did you know it was a good time to start? Is it bad to start during a regression?

Our day looks like this: 3/3.5/3.5-3.75 max
DWT of 6:30-6:45 unless he has a rough night then we let him sleep til 7:30ish
Bedtime routine: bath, book, nurse to sleep

I’m also planning to wean around 12 months so that’s why I hope to be able to put him down awake. We did CIO actually at the beginning of this regression, and I hated it so much. It worked. But I went back to nursing to sleep bc I had a lot of regret around it. I’d prefer to not do it again. But the constant screaming wake ups and rocking him to sleep are getting really tiring and it’s all really puzzling too, especially since he can fall asleep on his own for naps! So I just don’t know what’s happening. I’d appreciate any advice. TIA!

So my toddler is 22 months old. We have nightweaned at 20 months, so until a week ago he only breastfed at bedtime, in the early morning and for his nap.

He used to nap on top of me or cuddled to my side with the nipple in his mouth for the entire nap. My goal now is to get him to nap independently, so I used the same approach I used for night weaning.

I make the room dark, get in bed, him on top, we kiss before he latches and I breastfeed for around 10 min (2 of his lullaby) then I unlatch.

The problem is that after I unlatch he doesn't go to sleep, even if he is almost asleep while nursing. As soon as I unlatch, he wiggles around in the bed, says all the words he knows, even "no" and "done", sometimes tries to get off the bed. At night I used to cuddle with him when I weaned but he is having none of that at nap. After half an hour to an hour of doing his thing he eventually drifts off to sleep.

I have tried putting him to bed when he said he wants to nap at his usual time at first, which was a little over 3h after waking up, but he nursed and wouldn't sleep, left the room and everything.

I tried the recommended 5h wake window and it took him an hour to fall asleep and a meltdown.

I tried 4h wake windows and he rolls around for half an hour at least.

I am hoping he is protesting and this is just a phase but am I wrong? Is this normal nap behavior or am I doing something wrong?

For context I have a 21 week old EBF baby. Bed sharing at night and contact napper from the beginning! I’ve loved bed sharing but his sleep is getting worse and he now only settles when lay across me and latched on an all times!!!

The last 3 weeks we have successfully got baby down for naps on their own in the crib using shush and pat. I rock him and sing until he’s drowsy and then pop him down and it takes about 5 minutes to successfully pat him to sleep, I don’t sneak out the room but hes 100% asleep when I leave. Hes waking mostly after 1 sleep cycle at the 30 minute mark but sometimes we get longer…. best has been 1.5 hours.

When he wakes at bedtime I usually just get him up and have him contact nap with me until it’s time for bed.

I’m slightly reluctant to start Ferber if it’s too early and I also have a 4 year old I’m worried we will wake when sleep training. We sleep trained my 4 year old when they were about 4.5 months but they sucked their thumb so had some form of comfort LO currently only sucks his hands but not reliably!

I guess my question is has anyone’s little ones successfully started linking sleep cycles whilst shush patting and avoided Ferber or is it inevitable that I will have to start and if so is 5 months too early to begin? Will move him into his own room when we begin sleep training formally!

14 month old, wakes at 5-6 am everyday. Usually is down for nap at 830-9 am and will sleep about 2-21/2 hours. That’s her only nap most days due to her absolutely fighting us on the second. Then she’s so wore out by 630 pm she not only fights when we try to rock, but also she usually will sleep through the night. I am SO over the fighting. Ferber didn’t work for us the multiple times we’ve tried it. I won’t cry it out fully. Yesterday we had a break through. I went to rock her for her nap in the am and she threw her passi across the room. I immediately put her down in her bed, gave her her passi, and walked out of the room. She stood up screamed and cried but would self settle. And then she would scream and cry again and repeat. After about 8 minutes of this, I went in, checked on her. Her passi was on the floor. So I gave it back, picked her up, gave her a smooch and laid her back down (she was standing) and covered her up. This time she only sat back up and cried. Eventually (5-8 minutes) she LAYS DOWN and just goes to sleep? And then same thing for night time, only I completely skipped the rocking part and just tucked her in, and only had to do one check in. Slept through the night. Is this the path to success? Am I moving in the right direction?

17 month old sleep trained since about 4-6 months.

Current schedule that is working well (he’s happy and not fussy and goes down easily) except nightly false starts and some split nights: 5.5/6

6:30am DWT

12-2 nap

8pm bed

He goes down easily and falls asleep immediately for nap and bed. Wakes on his own from nap. For the past 5 nights however, he wakes after 1 sleep cycle around 8:40pm and cries. He puts himself back to sleep, so it’s not the end of the world, but it seems to me something is off? Additionally he’s had a split night twice in this time period.

Should I cap nap? He’s never given us more than 10.5 overnight. He’ll be starting daycare in a month or so and their nap schedule is 12-2, so I’d like to stay close to that and adjust around it.