5 months + 1 week
Baby was sleep trained at 4 months with a sleep consultant and now falls asleep on her own and stays asleep for about 10-11 hours overnight. She will wake to cry for a couple mins in the night twice and back to sleep in usually in 10 mins max. As of today her wake windows are 2.25/2.25/2.25/2.5 with 3 naps in the day capping daytime sleep to 3 hours. She falls asleep between 5-10 mins of either no crying for some hard crying. Depends on the day.
Most of the time she only makes it to 6-6:30 pm for bedtime since she’s up between 6-6:30 am (that is also the earliest I will get her as she has woken a few times before 6 and let her CIO and she will usually fall back asleep and wake within the 6am window. I would ideally like her to wake no earlier than 7am.
We feed upon wake, feed 30-40 mins before bedtime, and are fully night weaned. Gets enough milk in the daytime.
My first baby was a 7pm-7am sleeper on a fixed schedule from 5 months and she did well with that, so I’m new to the whole wake window type of schedule and miss the predictability of the fixed time schedule.
I guess my question is:
- does this seem age appropriate. I’ve seen a lot of discussion on here about total awake time which the consultant didn’t tell me about
- do fixed schedules ever work for babies this young and on 3 naps? I know it did for my first but her sleep training journey was very easy compared to my second.
- does total awake time matter?
- and what can I do to get my baby to sleep until 7am
- sample schedules/wake windows would be appreciated.