u/GreenKakapol

We're looking to sleep train our 4.5 month old.

We think she has low sleep needs and has always struggled with long naps, and night sleep (frequently having wakes). She's always been breast fed to sleep, then put in the cot, and given night feeds by mum for ease, but can be.rocked to sleep by dad or used a paci

At around 3.5 months we focused on getting consistent naps and wake windows with 5 naps and 3.5hr ish daytime sleep, 6AM wake and 8.30PM bed (9.5 hours overnight - but very broken with wakes every couple of hours).

Naps were in the carrier as the only way to keep her consistent, and night sleep in a crib in the room, but with frequent soothing and sometimes resorting to holding by the end of the night. Her previous bedtime was an hour earlier, but we tried to push later to increase sleep pressure.

Things maybe looked a bit better, but I believe we've hit regression and now she's often not doing the 2 to 3 hour (record was a one if 4.5hr) stretches overnight anymore, but waking every hour or so.

A week or two ago, we dropped a nap and are now at 6am wake, 1h45/2h/2h15/2h30/2hr45 (3.5 hour total naps) and 8:30PM bed (8.5 hours overnight -but still broken by frequent waking). She doesn't seem over tired during wake windows (although she's never had the most reliable cues), but falls asleep fine in the carrier for naps - usually I let her wake at the end of 1 or 2 sleep cycles, but feels like if I tried these naps could be elongated)

Before starting sleep training, I'd love to get options on:

- Should we try dropping another nap first?

- Have we cut overnight sleep too much?

- Does our schedule generally look okay?

- With so many night wakes currently, are we headed for disaster trying to get her to go to sleep independently?

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4.5 month old, low sleep needs and sleep regression - are wake windows fine?