I love how you explained the wake to sleep method! I sent your channel link to a friend who’s expecting her 2nd baby in November and I told her you do a great job at explaining the baby whisper book and how kind you are to respond to questions people comment! :)
I commented on your most recent video, I’m sure you remember 😂 I ended up having my daughter have a 2hr 45min morning wake window and the rest 3 hours and she’s adjusted great! She finally ended up figuring out how to lay down once she sits up in her crib! Overall she’s adjusted well to not having her cat nap :) Here’s where my question(s) come in! I mentioned before she’s a 10 1/2-11hr sleeper at night. She used to go to bed between 8-8:30 and wake up around 7, but now that she doesn’t have a cat nap, I’ve been having her go to bed by 7:30. She’s been starting to randomly wake up around 5:40-6am and she doesn’t cry she just plays and talks and eventually by 6:50-7 she starts to put herself back to sleep. I don’t go in there at all since she’s not crying for me and she’s been able to fall back asleep, I haven’t found a reason to do PU/PD. I usually just let her sleep for 30 minutes since she was up early for an hour. I’d prefer her to just wake up around 7 instead of taking a mini nap early in the morning 😂 I’m proud she can put herself back to sleep without needing me but it throws our schedule off for the day Question 1: around what time should I go in to do wake to sleep? I was thinking 5:20am Question 2: if I do wake to sleep and she wakes herself up but isn’t fussing, do you recommended still doing PU/PD? Or should I just let her self soothe back to sleep? Or should I stay in there and just keep my hand on her back until she falls asleep?
For nighttime sleep, Tracy Hogg suggest going in an hour before you expect them to wait, so in this case, 4:40. You could try 5am if an hour feels too early. The way she explains it, you would rouse your baby and stay with her till she falls back asleep. But I think there's a danger here that she might see you and wake up more? I would wake her up a bit and then leave the room - assuming you have a video monitor, I would just watch to make sure she goes back to sleep. If she doesn't, and she fusses then you could do PUPD, but if she's not crying, I wouldn't do anything! I want to note that it's actually pretty normal for babies to wake up around 5/6am and talk to themselves for a bit. Sleep to wake might help correct this, but it also might not. If it doesn't work (or if she just has her talking session earlier than usual when you attempt it 😂), you could try still waking her up at 7am, even if she's just starting to fall back asleep. She might be tired, but she would probably learn after a few days to not wake up early (or at least not stay awake for so long!). On another note, my toddler was an early morning talker and still is! I hear her a lot from 5:30-6:30 and sometimes she's even still awake at 7. She's always happy and just yammering away about something and giggling to herself. As a baby, I would still get her up at 7 and I don't really remember it ever being an issue. Although she's awake, she's still resting in bed so she might not be as tired as you think she will be if you still get her up on time!
@@xtinaxbabies thank you so much!! I’ll try 5am the next few days and I’ll wake up her at 7! I wish you had a pr box so subscribers could send you stuff! You’re such a big help! :)
What time to wake baby up if he is on 30 min naps schedule? It's like he has an alarm built in. He is 5 months old and he wakes up after 30 minutes every time. Tried to prolong with bouncing and feeding never works. I always watch for wake windows but seems like nothing helps. Any advice?
Hey there! First thing you should know is that your baby's sleep cycle is about 30-45mins long, so he is waking up after each sleep cycle, unable to connect 2 together to prolong his nap. If you'd like to use wake-to-sleep in order to help fix this, then you would go into his room at about the 20-minute mark and gently rouse him to restart his sleep cycle. Stay with him until you see him fall back asleep. Try it for at least 3 days in a row. If he doesn't fall asleep, you need to teach him how to self-soothe so he can do this independently. The method I recommend is Pick Up Put Down (PUPD) which you can see me do in this video: czcams.com/video/xhu59aFuWCc/video.htmlsi=JaAcLsDkUKC9ASg3 PUPD will help teach him sleep so he can take longer naps. it's a lot of work but totally worth it!
Christina, thank you for your advice! I tried to wake up my boy 20 min after I'd put him to nap and it worked like 60% times. So it's motivated me to try PUPD method. I watched your videos and started on May 1st after pretty rough night. So I'd say first 3 days gave me the impression that we are on the right path. However today I'm at my lowest... It's been couple of tough nights. He started protesting more to go for naps and today he slept 3 naps 30 min each after going down for about the same amount of time. I'm lost, I'm frustrated. What am I doing wrong? Is it normal to have some sort of regress? We are on a day 9 now. Past couple of nights he would wake up often. Had really hard time to soothe himself. I'm sure that it's teething. Could teething or illness affect this process that way? What to do when he wakes up @3pm and with 2-2.5 hours wake window it's too late to put him for another nap and way too early for night sleep? Any advice appreciated!
@@annaossadchaya7752 Hey there, sounds like you're working hard! I would say some sort of regression is definitely bound to happen, especially the older your baby is (since everything he knows is now changing!). If he's resisting naps, you can take it as a sign of progress! He is trying to push you to see if you will go back to your old methods or if this is his new normal. If you stay consistent, it will end, and he will be comfortable knowing what to expect for bed. Teething and illness are definitely some things that can impact sleep as well - it's best to remain consistent as best as you can through it. If you're comfortable with giving medicine, I find that baby Tylenol always eliminates the pain and discomfort for my babies and it helps them sleep better! In doing PUPD, are you also being consistent with a daily routine? Make sure you have a consistent wake-up time in the morning, and a bedtime in the evening. At 5/6 months your sleep schedule may look something like this: 7am wake up 9am/9:30am-11am first nap 1pm/1:30pm-3pm second nap 5pm-5:30pm catnap 7:30pm bedtime If you have set naptimes, then when you need to do PUPD, you will do it till the end of the planned nap. So if he's meant to sleep 9-11am, and he wakes at 9:30am, then you will have to do PUPD till 11am. What I find with my babies is that the nap is over when I say it's over. So even when I've spent 1.5hours doing PUPD and they don't go back to sleep, they aren't significantly more tired during their next wake window, and can usually last till the 1pm nap (or maybe a bit before). You still might have those days where you end up with a bunch of 30minute naps, but if you stick with PUPD till the end of each nap, you will create more predictability for your child, which in time will result in better sleep. Hope that helps!
I love how you explained the wake to sleep method! I sent your channel link to a friend who’s expecting her 2nd baby in November and I told her you do a great job at explaining the baby whisper book and how kind you are to respond to questions people comment! :)
I commented on your most recent video, I’m sure you remember 😂 I ended up having my daughter have a 2hr 45min morning wake window and the rest 3 hours and she’s adjusted great! She finally ended up figuring out how to lay down once she sits up in her crib! Overall she’s adjusted well to not having her cat nap :)
Here’s where my question(s) come in! I mentioned before she’s a 10 1/2-11hr sleeper at night. She used to go to bed between 8-8:30 and wake up around 7, but now that she doesn’t have a cat nap, I’ve been having her go to bed by 7:30. She’s been starting to randomly wake up around 5:40-6am and she doesn’t cry she just plays and talks and eventually by 6:50-7 she starts to put herself back to sleep. I don’t go in there at all since she’s not crying for me and she’s been able to fall back asleep, I haven’t found a reason to do PU/PD. I usually just let her sleep for 30 minutes since she was up early for an hour. I’d prefer her to just wake up around 7 instead of taking a mini nap early in the morning 😂 I’m proud she can put herself back to sleep without needing me but it throws our schedule off for the day
Question 1: around what time should I go in to do wake to sleep? I was thinking 5:20am
Question 2: if I do wake to sleep and she wakes herself up but isn’t fussing, do you recommended still doing PU/PD? Or should I just let her self soothe back to sleep? Or should I stay in there and just keep my hand on her back until she falls asleep?
For nighttime sleep, Tracy Hogg suggest going in an hour before you expect them to wait, so in this case, 4:40. You could try 5am if an hour feels too early. The way she explains it, you would rouse your baby and stay with her till she falls back asleep. But I think there's a danger here that she might see you and wake up more? I would wake her up a bit and then leave the room - assuming you have a video monitor, I would just watch to make sure she goes back to sleep. If she doesn't, and she fusses then you could do PUPD, but if she's not crying, I wouldn't do anything!
I want to note that it's actually pretty normal for babies to wake up around 5/6am and talk to themselves for a bit. Sleep to wake might help correct this, but it also might not.
If it doesn't work (or if she just has her talking session earlier than usual when you attempt it 😂), you could try still waking her up at 7am, even if she's just starting to fall back asleep. She might be tired, but she would probably learn after a few days to not wake up early (or at least not stay awake for so long!).
On another note, my toddler was an early morning talker and still is! I hear her a lot from 5:30-6:30 and sometimes she's even still awake at 7. She's always happy and just yammering away about something and giggling to herself. As a baby, I would still get her up at 7 and I don't really remember it ever being an issue.
Although she's awake, she's still resting in bed so she might not be as tired as you think she will be if you still get her up on time!
@@xtinaxbabies thank you so much!! I’ll try 5am the next few days and I’ll wake up her at 7! I wish you had a pr box so subscribers could send you stuff! You’re such a big help! :)
@@xtinaxbabies also I’m assuming if I take her out at 7, I should try to gently push her to get to her to her next wake window?
@@Karina-jb4sc yep! and definitely take note of if she's seeming tired early, and if her early wake-ups improve over the following few days!
@@Karina-jb4sc glad I can help!
What time to wake baby up if he is on 30 min naps schedule? It's like he has an alarm built in. He is 5 months old and he wakes up after 30 minutes every time. Tried to prolong with bouncing and feeding never works. I always watch for wake windows but seems like nothing helps. Any advice?
Hey there! First thing you should know is that your baby's sleep cycle is about 30-45mins long, so he is waking up after each sleep cycle, unable to connect 2 together to prolong his nap.
If you'd like to use wake-to-sleep in order to help fix this, then you would go into his room at about the 20-minute mark and gently rouse him to restart his sleep cycle. Stay with him until you see him fall back asleep. Try it for at least 3 days in a row.
If he doesn't fall asleep, you need to teach him how to self-soothe so he can do this independently. The method I recommend is Pick Up Put Down (PUPD) which you can see me do in this video: czcams.com/video/xhu59aFuWCc/video.htmlsi=JaAcLsDkUKC9ASg3
PUPD will help teach him sleep so he can take longer naps. it's a lot of work but totally worth it!
Christina, thank you for your advice! I tried to wake up my boy 20 min after I'd put him to nap and it worked like 60% times. So it's motivated me to try PUPD method. I watched your videos and started on May 1st after pretty rough night.
So I'd say first 3 days gave me the impression that we are on the right path. However today I'm at my lowest...
It's been couple of tough nights. He started protesting more to go for naps and today he slept 3 naps 30 min each after going down for about the same amount of time. I'm lost, I'm frustrated. What am I doing wrong? Is it normal to have some sort of regress?
We are on a day 9 now. Past couple of nights he would wake up often. Had really hard time to soothe himself. I'm sure that it's teething. Could teething or illness affect this process that way?
What to do when he wakes up @3pm and with 2-2.5 hours wake window it's too late to put him for another nap and way too early for night sleep?
Any advice appreciated!
@@annaossadchaya7752 Hey there, sounds like you're working hard! I would say some sort of regression is definitely bound to happen, especially the older your baby is (since everything he knows is now changing!). If he's resisting naps, you can take it as a sign of progress! He is trying to push you to see if you will go back to your old methods or if this is his new normal. If you stay consistent, it will end, and he will be comfortable knowing what to expect for bed.
Teething and illness are definitely some things that can impact sleep as well - it's best to remain consistent as best as you can through it. If you're comfortable with giving medicine, I find that baby Tylenol always eliminates the pain and discomfort for my babies and it helps them sleep better!
In doing PUPD, are you also being consistent with a daily routine? Make sure you have a consistent wake-up time in the morning, and a bedtime in the evening. At 5/6 months your sleep schedule may look something like this:
7am wake up
9am/9:30am-11am first nap
1pm/1:30pm-3pm second nap
5pm-5:30pm catnap
7:30pm bedtime
If you have set naptimes, then when you need to do PUPD, you will do it till the end of the planned nap. So if he's meant to sleep 9-11am, and he wakes at 9:30am, then you will have to do PUPD till 11am. What I find with my babies is that the nap is over when I say it's over. So even when I've spent 1.5hours doing PUPD and they don't go back to sleep, they aren't significantly more tired during their next wake window, and can usually last till the 1pm nap (or maybe a bit before). You still might have those days where you end up with a bunch of 30minute naps, but if you stick with PUPD till the end of each nap, you will create more predictability for your child, which in time will result in better sleep.
Hope that helps!