Baby Sleeping Habits

Hi A.,

I might suggest to try and play soft music to lull her to sleep, and she might nap longer...Also, it could be that she needs a top off of whatever milk she is getting..My boy woke up because he was hungry...so try to fill her tummy. I would be happy to chat if you'd like. If you'd like e-mail address, just let me know..

Best Regards,

C.
53 mom of 3 grandma of 2

It might be that you are putting her to bed to early and she is getting too much sleep at night. My daughter was the same way and for a while we had to start putting her to bed around 9 pm or later and then waking her up around 6:30 am. By doing that I found that when she took her nap she only took 1 during the day and it was usually around 2-3 hours long. I only had to do this for about a month a then slowly transition her back to an earlier bed time. Her doctor was the one her recomended this and it really did work. The other thing that you can try is not putting her down for her naps. My older son quit taking naps around 7 months old. We couldn't get him to sleep, and he never seemed tired, if he was he would nod off by himself and sleep for a hour or more. I hope that this helps you.
B.

I WAS TOLD BY MY DR TO PUT GERBER CEREAL IN HER FORMULA BOTTLE. IT WOULD MAKE HER FULL AND SLEEP BETTER. BOTH MY KIDS SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT AT 3 MONTHS IT WORKED SO TRY IT I KEPT MY KIDS ON IT TILL THEY WERE 9 AND 12 MONTHS IF THAT DONT WORK FEED HER RIGHT BEFORE NAP TIME. YOPU CAN BUY BOTTLE NIPPLES THAT ARE FOR CEREAL I FOUND MINE AT WAL-MART
GOOD LUCK
C.

That's a hard one. One of my most favorite resources is Healthy Sleep habits, happy baby. I don't know if you are open to the idea of cry it out -- and I understand if you aren't (I know up until the moment I did it.. I thought it was awful) but basically it suggests that you leave the child in their crib/room for 1 hour (even if they cry). Even if they wake up before the hour, leave them in there. My thought about the being wired, it's not actually a symptom of getting enough sleep but not getting enough.

I wish you luck, my best recommendation is to go to the library and check out some various sleep books and find one that most fits your personality and try it out. Sleep is a very important component in all baby milestones and sleep begets sleep even though it can be hard to get to that part.

L.

My almost 11 month old son does that, we call them his "power naps" he will do it 2-3 times a day. The later we keep him up at night, the longer he sleeps through the night and the less he naps. If he goes to bed too early, he will "power nap" quite frequently and then doesnt want to go to bed. Hope that helps some.

Hello, I just wanted to tell you a little bit about my daughter and her sleeping habbits as well. I have learned that girls are tuffer to rest, and sleep. It took my daughter untill reciently, shes just turning 1 next week, to sleep longer then 15 minutes on her second nap of the day. There is numerous times where she wakes back up and cries. I noticed if I let her cry it out, and fall back asleep is when she sleeps the longest. I've never given her a bottle or pacifier for comfort, I learned my lesson with my son on that one. But I just think girls are tuffer on sleep habbits, they are so afraid they will miss something. If you think about it, thats the way you are too )being a light sleeper). My son on the other hand is four, and he takes a solid 3-4 hour nap from 1-3/4. If he dosn't get in a full nap, its a nightmare. So its tuff for me to balance out who waks up when, and when to put the other one down. Do you have any other children? One thing that does work, is I put a loud fan in their bedroom (they share a room) and that has helped everyone sleep at night or during the day. That way if im up doing things, it wont wake them. Maybe try that?

My 10 month-old son has started to take fewer naps (2 instead of 3 most days) and his second nap is shortening. I read somewhere that around this age, they have so much curiousity and they would prefer to be up using their newfound abilities (crawling, walking, pulling up, etc.) and it can disrupt their sleeping patterns. So maybe that has something to do with your daughter's short naps? I can imagine it must be a bit frustrating b/c you're losing valuable time to get stuff done.

Occasionally my son will wake up after a short time and I'll just go in and make sure he has his pacifier and blanket, and lay him back down. It usually works!

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. I'm sure someone else will have better advice for you! Good luck.

Dear A.,

I don't know if you would have the time but I would lay your 9 month old daughter down and walk a way and be quite when you leave so that she will fall asleep. I do it with my 10 month old son. He fusses untill he falls asleep. Once he is asleep he sleeps for at least 2 hours.

My 10 month old son has just started to take 30 minute power naps. I am really missing his 2hour naps twice a day. I am wondering if maybe we should skip the first one and hopefully the second one gets longer. Has you daughter always taken little naps or has it just started happening like with my little bundle of joy? :) I will be watching this post carefully for help as well :)

Keep in mind too that they are growing and don't need as much anymore. My 15 month old has really stopped napping all together already but, keep in mind that as they are growing, they don't need as much. Soon, it will be 1 nap a day. By the time that they hit a year to 1.5, they start doing one nap a day just for power napping and then they are on the go.

T. K

Hi,
My suggestion(just cuz i know how so important naps are for "MOM") make the transition to one nap not two. Keep her as busy as possible during the times she is awake.About an hour before nap time feed her and calm even if that means a bath a a short massage.Music is always great and keep the house super quiet. My oldest son stop taking naps a 2, my middle took naps until he had to go to school just this year he is 6, and my youngest who is 4 1/2 will still take a 1 1/2 hour nap a day. Some kids may not need this much sleep if she is one of them, you should insist on a resting time anyway.....beleive me its for your sanity lol.
My kids are 9, 6, and 4 1/2 I am still learning many things myself but I am totally open to helping any mothers that need it if I can so if you would like to email me my email is ____@____.com, I also worked as a preschool teacher(age 2) for the last two years. Good luck!

L.