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Hi magical humans! My Ferber trained baby is a few days shy of 11 months. He sleeps great right now. Current schedule is approx:
0645 wake
Nap 1: 10-11
Nap 2: 2:30-3:30
1930 sleep
3.25/3.5/4

He’s been fighting the second nap a bit. Due to recent vacation and busy life things he’s gone to bed a bit later for a couple nights so today he woke at 7, and I did his first nap from 10:35-11:25 (50 minutes) and second nap 3:15pm - 4pm and bedtime will be 8pm

That said, it’s making me think, since I’ve sort of shortened today’s naps on top of lengthening the first wake window a bit, I’m wondering what the best practice is for making my slight adjustments in anticipation of (probably) dropping to one nap in the next couple months

My question: when making adjustments, is it better to shorten naps? Or to lengthen wake windows? Does shortening naps always come with lengthening wake windows? Or is it better to shorten naps but wake up earlier / go to bed later and keep 2x 1 hour each naps?

Kinda just curious other people in this age group - what’s your baby’s schedule? Sleep angel experts, what are your suggestions?

Thanks all!! :)

My baby is just about 10 months. Sleep trained via Ferber
For a few months he was comfortably doing:
3/3/4 - Naps 1 hour each
Sleeping straight through the night 7:30pm-7:30am

The last few days he’s been fighting his second nap, and the second wake window ends up being close to 4 hours. I’ve tried a few days of capping his nap to 45 mins ish to keep bedtime around 7:30, and also tried a few days of keeping the hour nap and having a slightly later bedtime.. both have resulted in him waking earlier (6:30am - 7am) which is fine.. I’ve then tried making an adjustment where he does 11 hours overnight and added approx 15 mins to each nap duration to get him closer to the 14 hour suggested sleep per day for his age.. he’s still fighting his second nap hard.

I’m wondering a couple things:
- is it too early to work toward dropping to one nap?
- even though he goes down easy for his first nap at 3 hours, should I push that one back and work on extending wake windows to gradually work toward one nap?
- what have you found successful in transition to one nap? Trying for a longer first nap and maybe a 15 min cat nap in the afternoon?
- any schedule adjustments that I haven’t thought of that I should try before flipping my world and his schedule upside down lol?

Thank you!

Anyone around Harris and Ford that just heard what might have been a loud gun shot?

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ASK: if anyone has happened to see the lavender sour even in single cans at ANY liquor stores ANYWHERE in the lower mainland please let me know I need to taste it one last time before accepting they’ll never be produced again

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Hi! My son is a few days from turning 7 months. Sleep trained with Ferber (modified) since about 5 ish months and his naps and night sleep have all been perfect. A couple weeks ago we switched to two naps and I was worried, but that’s also been perfect - he gets fussy - ish but tolerates the longer windows and has continued to sleep through the night

We’ve been doing 3.25 / 3.25 / 3.5 but maaaybe 2-3 times in the last couple weeks first window of 3 hours, bringing total awake time to 9.75 - 10 hours. Wake time used to be 6:30am but he’s been liking sleeping til 7am lately, and bedtime falls between 7pm and 7:30pm (usually closer to 7:30pm) depending on nap length through the day (total nap time 2.5 - 3 max spread between two)

Last night, 3 hours after falling asleep, he woke up HYSTERICAL. Like, a different type of cry. I applied Ferber and waited before going in, and when I did he was breathing so hard and really really difficult to settle. I offered comfort, back and bum pats and verbal reassurance and left the room with him still awake and unsettled but a bit more calm, and had to go back for a second check in 8-10 mins later. After that, he slept perfectly through til I woke him at 7am

I thought this was a one off, maybe a bad dream? Tonight, I got him to sleep at about 7:05pm, and 1-2 mins later he was HYSTERICAL, again the same type of hysterical as last night. Not a regular fussing himself to sleep kind of crying. I waited 5 minutes and as I was about to go in, his owlet dream sock alerted me that my baby needs attention; that’s how hysterical the crying is that it prompted an alert due to his heart rate. He settled after a couple minutes and has been asleep for about 45 minutes now.

What the heck is this? Is this a normal phase? A new regression? Should I be expected another wake at 3 hours again? It didn’t happen for any of his nap times yesterday or today. Anyone experienced this wildly different type of crying and difficult to settle phase from their baby who was an angel sleeper? Like I said he still slept perfectly last night after the burst, but what the heck??

When did “indigo and violet” replace purple? That’s like eliminating green and adding chartreuse and forest… I grew up with good ol fashion red orange yellow green blue purple 🥲

Edit to add: I’m from Canada and born in the early 90s

ETA another question: I learned about colour-mixing ie: red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, blue + red = purple, and thus full circle of the six colours of the rainbow. Where do indigo and violet come in with the mixings for those who learned with I+V?

Does anyone remember Olay Quench body lotion? I basically caked myself in it daily in the early 2000s lol. I frequently think of it and re-upset myself that it was discontinued. Anyone know of any body lotions with a similar scent?

With all the info out there about the toxic chemicals and materials in some (or a lot?) of SHEIN products, especially baby items, i recently returned all the baby stuff i bought my infant out of an abundance of caution. I more recently bought another order of stuff just for myself, and now I feel myself being a little paranoid about even touching the plastic bags and the clothing and then touching my baby. I’m not normally a germaphobe or paranoid about this kinda stuff but with a baby I feel like i need to be careful? I tried some stuff on then literally showered before i would pick my baby up again.

Is that over the top? Am i overreacting about the chemicals in their stuff or is that valid?

MY ISSUE AT THE END!

Current ish but working on transitioning:
DWT: 6:30am
Bedtime: 7:30pm
11 hours night sleep
Bedtime routine: bath every other night, lotion, pjs, bottle, story(s), singing, sleep
Ferber trained-ish (still working on it) he generally sleeps pretty well
Approx ww’s: 2/2.5/2.5/3
Totalling 10 hours wake time

As of today working on transitioning to 2.25/2.5/2.75/3 to work on extending ww’s as he turns 6 months in a few days

Naps have been working well consistently 1hr 15 mins for the first two and 30 mins for the last one totalling an age appropriate 3 hours of day time sleep

MY ISSUE RIGHT NOW: today’s first nap was 1hr 20 mins, second nap was only 30 mins as we were out and about, normally he sleeps well on the go but he woke up and wouldn’t go back to sleep

Do I keep the last nap only 30 mins to preserve sleep pressure tonight?

OR do I give him extra time for the last name (45-60 mins?) to prevent him being over tired for tonight’s sleep?