omg I'm having the same struggle, starting when DD turned 7 weeks last week. Sounds like it's normal at this age? Hope it passes soon! It feels like I spend the whole day trying to get her to nap!

Anonymous wrote:long naps (aka "connecting sleep cycles") are developmental in my experience. nothing you can do to extend them except hold them. this too shall pass. try to enjoy the baby snuggles.

+1 for both my kids it was developmental and didn’t reallly get solid until 6 months or so but you can “rescue” the nap if you want after the 35 min mark and see if you can help connect the cycle. The peaceful sleeper on Instagram has some really helpful tips on how to help nap lengthen once baby is 4 months and you can use sleep training a little more. Worked quite well for my second starting at 4 months, just wasn’t consistent til 6 months when they really developmentally get there

This was just kind of my life until both kids dropped to 2-3 naps. Hang in there!

Yeah, I'd focus on trying to get baby down slightly sooner than the 60-75 minute mark (at first sleepy sign) to shorten the awake window. The sleep cycle might still be really short for a few more weeks, but at least then you're getting another cycle or two during the day and a bit more sleep for the babe.

Anonymous wrote:my 3 month old falls asleep independently at bedtime and for naps, but wakes exactly 35 min after he falls asleep for naps, and then won't keep sleeping unless he's in someone's arms. any tips on how to get hi to extend naps?

wake windows are currently 60-75 min (he starts to fuss around minute 50).

I held her. I did find I could put her in the k’tan and get her to connect two cycles over a long walk.

Oh this phase was the worst. When I was able to, I just wore my baby for one longer nap and then let the other ones be shorter.

While I agree this can be unavoidable at this phase, that isn't always the case. I think your wake windows are a bit on the longer end for this age, and especially if he's getting fussy at the 50 min mark, sounds like shorter ones would be better. Especially that first nap of the day, sometimes they just cannot hang for long, and if that nap is short, the rest of your day is hopeless, IMHO. So I'd try playing with that very first wake window, see if you can get that nap to extend, and then go from there.

long naps (aka "connecting sleep cycles") are developmental in my experience. nothing you can do to extend them except hold them. this too shall pass. try to enjoy the baby snuggles.

I go back in and do whatever is necessary to get him back to the fluttery eyelid stage of falling asleep then I roll the dice and put him back down. Sometimes it gets a another 38 mins, sometimes that second part nap goes an hour, sometimes he screams every 2 minutes and I do it again a few times. I keep an eye on the clock and will all nap time quits at the hour mark if this is the way it is going. I did this with first DS and eventually, after we started nighttime sleep training, I started to let him cry during that sleep cycle switchover for timed intervals like at night, and eventually he sorted it all out and would nap for hours and hours if I let him. Fingers crossed the same thing happens now with this baby (also 3 months old).

I held him! It was the only way to get him to connect sleep cycles until he was older and he desperately needed the sleep. Sorry.

This was the WORST phase. I’m so sorry. It’s like they calculated it to be just long enough for you to start to unclench and then…waaaaahhh!

I forget how long it lasted because I’ve blocked it for my survival. But it did end. I think this part is actually worse for SAHP because if you’re going back to work, you miss a lot of this part.

I never found anything that helped. DD’s naps, oddly, were all exactly 27 minutes.

my 3 month old falls asleep independently at bedtime and for naps, but wakes exactly 35 min after he falls asleep for naps, and then won't keep sleeping unless he's in someone's arms. any tips on how to get hi to extend naps?

wake windows are currently 60-75 min (he starts to fuss around minute 50).