Day Naps - DD Waking Every 40 Mins

DD2 is nearly nine weeks old and wakes up every 40 mins or so during her day naps. I know she's just waking up after finishing a sleep cycle and I can get her back to sleep again so it's hardly the end of the world but the poor thing seems tired and exhausted, particularly as she often needs burping before she goes back to sleep so can be up again for 15-20 mins before she settles again and she gets cranky too.

I know I should go in there BEFORE she wakes up and start soothing around the time she would wake up but I haven't quite managed to get my act together on that one.

Longer term, did you find your babies grew out of this?

DD1 was the opposed - was a bugger to get to sleep but when she did, she'd have really long naps.

Tom grew out of that - I just had to help him learn to go back to sleep. I did that by patting his mattress by his head and playing him soothing music rather than getting him up. He has nice long naps during the day now.

Have you tried raising the head of her bed a little? It might ease her tummy discomfort a bit so she doesn't wake ad much.

And how did she get to nine weeks already????

My DS is coming up to 12wks and I can count the number if day sleeps longer than 40mins on one hand... And the number of day sleeps in his cot (as opposed to bouncer or pram/car) on the other hand!

I remember with DD I was so concerned with getting her to sleep longer than one cycle but with DS it is only just starting to bother me. I'm finding it too difficult to spend the time in there with him TBH - I have to close the door so that DD doesn't follow me in and disturb DS and while I'm in there I worry about what DD is up to...

I'm hoping he will be super clever and just learn on his own...

Yeah, Missy does this most of the time. Sometimes she'll surprise me and go for 2 hours but that is every 2-3 days. I don't stress any more, if she wakes then I just get her up - what I find is that she maybe needs another wee nap sooner than if she'd napped for over 40 minutes if that makes sense?

My MCHN told me that babies are (generally) terrible nappers before 6 months. Since she told me that I have totally relaxed about the whole thing and since doing that, missy naps better LOL, typical!!

DD2 was probably around 6 months old before she got the hang of longer day sleeps and only slept 40 min at a time until then - I can gladly say that for the past 6 months at least she has slept for about 2 hours every afternoon without fail!

Yep, Pie grew out of it, probably around the 6 month mark like Nai said. I never got the hang of going in after 40 minutes ready to resettle her :p

After 6 months she would do anywhere form an hour to three hours, it's from an hour to two1/2 atm.

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My DS is coming up to 12wks and I can count the number if day sleeps longer than 40mins on one hand... And the number of day sleeps in his cot (as opposed to bouncer or pram/car) on the other hand!

I remember with DD I was so concerned with getting her to sleep longer than one cycle but with DS it is only just starting to bother me. I'm finding it too difficult to spend the time in there with him TBH - I have to close the door so that DD doesn't follow me in and disturb DS and while I'm in there I worry about what DD is up to...

I'm hoping he will be super clever and just learn on his own...

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I could have written that post! Except at 7 months I can no longer count how many longer sleeps DS2 has had (thank goodness!). But he's pretty good at the 40 minute nap, sometimes it's even the 30 minute nap. I just don't have the wherewithal to be resettling him every time. It's quite refreshing actually, not having time to be stressed about my baby's sleep :lol: Poor child ;)

Yep, DD grew out of it too, I think it was a little after the 6 months mark, although now, at 12 months she still does have the odd day where she'll wake after 40 mins and I have to either rock her for a couple of minutes and stick her back in her cot or even hold her for the rest of her sleep.

When she was little I tried the whole going in and resettling before she woke thing, but it only worked maybe one in every 3 times, which just ended up being stressful, so I gave up after a few weeks and waited for it to happen naturally.