Daytime naps

Our little girl will link her sleep cycles at nighttime but never during the day meaning she’s only ever sleeping for 40 minutes at a time in the day, it’s such a nightmare- does anyone have any tips please? Thank you
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they only need a certain amount of sleep in a 24h period so if they’re getting enough at night their daytime sleep will be limited, we still can’t get past 30m either x

You can try going in at 35 mins and pat and shush or give her dummy (whatever works for your baby) to see if you can get her through to the next cycle, or if she wakes, rock her back to sleep and put down again/finish in a contact nap. I did a combo of these for probably 2 months and now she will do 1-2 hours

My baby is exactly the same. What are your wake windows like? I’ve found the only way to get my baby to sleep longer than 1 sleep cycle has been by extending his wake window. He’s 9 months and I do between 3-3.5 hours between morning and afternoon nap. I’ve only just started trying this and so far it’s worked 2 out of 3 days and he’s a serial cat napper! Always has been. Other tip is to cap the morning nap so sleep pressure build for the afternoon nap eg do a 25 Power Nap in the morning then longer wake window, then hopefully a longer afternoon nap as a result 🤞🏻

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