u/Competitive_Art5444

I've seen some suggestions of blackout curtains helping babies nap better as they get older. I don't want them in my room bc I like waking up to the light that comes in through closed blinds but my 4.5 month old pretty consistently only naps about a half hour at a time. We all share a room and a bed. Does a dark room work for naps? She sleeps great at night so it had me wondering.

After her short nap she's tired again in an hour and half and she's extra tired by bed time so we have been having to start by 6 or 6:30. I'd like her to sleep til 7:30 am so I can sleep too so getting her to sleep at 7:30 pm is better plus that way she gets more time with her working parent. It would be a dream to have even one 2 hour nap in the middle of the day. Can this be biologically normal?

I do try to lay with her at naps or hold her and I nurse her to sleep but sometimes if I move it will wake her and she's bright eyed a bushy tailed. Sometimes I unlatch her and leave the room and she also wakes in about a half hour. She's usually happy when she wakes. I have also tried carrier naps and the same thing. If I'm moving about the house she doesn't sleep long so I end up wearing her, sitting on the couch, trying to be extremely still.

I want to support her with the best sleep for her body and for me to not be stressed or walking on eggshells.

I'm a breastfeeding mom. I don't want to take any sorts of medications for multiple reasons. I have on and off nights where I can't sleep at all and I need it. I have to take care of an infant all day. People always ask how she is sleeping. She sleeps great. It's me who isn't sleeping. This has been an on and off issue for me for years. I've seen some people here say magnesium helps. I've tried the powdered drinks and can't get them down bc they are so gross. Any tips on what kind to take and how much? When should I take it?

I'm so exhausted i'm only worsening the issue bc my sleep is so sensitive I normally don't have caffeine but I've had to have around 40mg of caffeine in the morning just to get through the day. It's not a lot for most people but my sleep is only getting worse. I went from night I wake up from 3-6 to now not being able to fall asleep at all.

4.5 month old, not a heavy wetter, we EC but nights can be unpredictable whether she pees in her diaper at night at all so I don't want some bulky thing nightly she may not even wet or I may take off a couple times. Basically I need it to make sense for taking on and off, wearing entirely dry, or keeping on all night getting wet.

We are trying to use wool cover 24/7 and have been experimenting with nighttime use but every other day she decides to sleep though pees we get leaks. Currently we use Puppi covers and their snap in inserts with the gusset thing bc it's been the easiest for nighttime potties and changes. She doesn't poop at night but the cotton part holds the pad in place. The pad is really absorbent but her night pees don't soak throughout the pad they just pool at the back and if she pees a lot it will eventually start to leak through. The front of the diaper is totally dry. I have a sloomb wool insert that I lanolized and put in the back folded in half. It works occasionally but on days she pees more and it goes through that too. I just bought some hemp/cotton inserts to try but not sure what to pair them with in the Puppi cover since it's a slow absorber. We have flats. I'm opening to buying another absorbency for nights, if fitted makes a difference or a thinner cotton insert on top of hemp could work.

We want a nighttime solution that is not enormous and somehow fixes this wet at the back issue. Is there a way with wool to get the pee to soak throughout? When we use poly covers it seems to hold it in and allow the pee to soak throughout. I keep going back and forth bc she will have multiple nights in a row with a dry diaper and I won't want to put her in the poly so I go back to wool and it goes well a few days then she starts sleeping through pees. I let her lead on toileting bc if I try to wake her to potty she just falls asleep sitting on the potty and if I wake her too much she thinks it's time to get up.

I have seen a lot about pull on covers like Disana but I'm hesitant to try this bc it seems more disruptive to take on and off my baby at night than a snap cover. If anyone thinks another brand of wool snap cover would work better I'd be interested to know.

I nurse her to sleep then try to get up as soon as possible when she allows me to unlatch and stay asleep. Lately around 15-20 minutes but there have been times its much longer. Now I leave and she is up 15 minutes later acting like she got all the sleep in the world but tired again in less than 30 minutes. Is there something I can do to get her to stay asleep? We are trying cues and wake windows on nap timing right now. A schedule doesn't seem to work right now for naps. Should I be working towards this? Would it help?

Does it really help to get your baby to take a bottle if you're a SAHM and EBF easily? Yes sometimes I could see the benefit in my wife giving her a bottle if she wanted to do bedtime or I wanted to be away for longer than a couple hours. Pumping in so annoying especially now that my supply is well regulated and I haven't pumped in months. Baby won't take a Pigeon bottle and I don't want to buy every bottle on the market.

Is it worth trying gentle sleep training if it makes bedtime take so much longer?

My 4 month old will lay down happily on her own but not fall asleep. I try to put her down drowsy then she wakes up more and plays in bed for 30 mins then starts getting fussy. We do gentle soothing trying to do as little as possible to help her but its new so she doesn't love that. There's a lot of shushing and patting and sometimes I have to pick her up. Eventually she gets to sleep but it is taking a total of 1.5 hrs a night or more. I can nurse her for 30 minutes at night and she usually just passes out. Seems so much easier but will she eventually learn to fall asleep without boob on her own? She's so small still and it feels weird not just giving her the comfort she wants.

She is still nursing to sleep for naps and that is a whole other journey right now. She doesn't always allow me to unlatch and stay asleep. She went from breastfeeding to sleep for 15-20 minutes, unlatching on her own then taking 2hr naps to wanting either stay latched for an hr or only sleeping for 30 mins.

Does it get easier?

My girl is only 3 months and we have done EC since birth. After naps have always been easy catches but she just started napping on her own pretty consistently and now isn’t even calling out or crying when she wakes up. By the time I check in on her she has already peed in her diaper. We still do a 5 minute sit but nothing. This has been happening for most naps for a few days now. Is continuing to do a 5 minute sit ok when I know she’s most likely not going to pee? Will it get better and she will eventually hold it and call out to me? Do I need to get a motion sensing baby camera so I know when she wakes up? I am happy she feels safe and independent enough to be able to stay in bed and be calm and happy on her own but bummed we are missing those pees we always caught before. Has anyone had this experience and it got better? What did they do?