Anonymous wrote:I think check ins at nap time can be way too stimulating for some babies. My first was like this and when we switched to no check ins at nap time, he cried for one full hour, we took him out and did a reset and he napped well after that. Also, both my kids dropped to 2 naps right at (or just before) 6 months but a balance more like 2.5-3-3.5 worked better for them than the 2-3-4 schedule. Sorry it’s tough and you’ll just have to play around til you find the optimal windows for your baby but really consider whether the check ins might be too stimulating for your baby at naptime.

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Anonymous wrote:6 month nap schedule can be 90 minutes from waking up. My 7 month old is still on this schedule but is moving toward 9, 12, and 3 schedule. I think the biggest thing is that the first nap is very early at 8!

OP so in that case our morning nap would be around 7:30 maybe I can swing? A little hard to make that work because I have an older one who has to get out the door by 7:45am and we're in crunch time, but maybe I could aim for 8:00am and see if I can get the baby down right after DD goes to school.

yeah by 6 months most are moving towards two hours from wake so 8 would be fine (np) It can be hard but usually works itself out within the next couple months. It sounds like she might be overtired when going for the nap since she's crying for so long, often if overtired you get the crying, undertired is when they just hang out in the crib but dont go to sleep. So that can help you in trying to assess your wake windows. You could also experiment with helping her "save the nap" since she is still learning out to make those connections between cycles. So what I would do is give yourself a time limit - 30 minutes may be good to start. Give her 30 minutes to fuss with checks and then if she doesn't seem closer by then you intervene and get her a nap another way. OR if she does go down but only sleep for 30 min, then you try to go in and shush her, hold her, rock her to get her back down for the second part of the cycle. She's having trouble connecting cycles so this can actually help her learn how to do it - like hey 30 min is not enough, I'm going to help you finish this out. That also helps you get on a better schedule where she can then have a longer wake window befor enext nap. I suspect she's getting overtired between naps since she's only getting 30 min. Who knows though, it's so tricky at these ages but usually works out by 8 months.

Peaceful sleeper has a lot of good info that helped me on saving the nap. That really reduced my stress with my second and I felt like he "got it" quicker

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Anonymous wrote:6 month nap schedule can be 90 minutes from waking up. My 7 month old is still on this schedule but is moving toward 9, 12, and 3 schedule. I think the biggest thing is that the first nap is very early at 8!

OP so in that case our morning nap would be around 7:30 maybe I can swing? A little hard to make that work because I have an older one who has to get out the door by 7:45am and we're in crunch time, but maybe I could aim for 8:00am and see if I can get the baby down right after DD goes to school.

Anonymous wrote:6 month nap schedule can be 90 minutes from waking up. My 7 month old is still on this schedule but is moving toward 9, 12, and 3 schedule. I think the biggest thing is that the first nap is very early at 8!