How to train
4 Month Old To Nap
4 Month Old Baby - Nap Tips
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hi I'm Jilly from baby sleep made simple
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the unfortunate truth about this is for
babies that are younger than six months
old short and unpredictable mapping can
be common which is the last thing that
tired parents want the entire parent
wants to hear but it's often the truth I
don't encourage formal nap training
until at least six months for that
reason the way that I approach helping
babies sleep well is to first work on
bedtime then we fix extra night wakings
and then we work on naps so I would ask
you how your four month old is sleeping
at night has she gone through the four
months a progression is she in the C
progression now how is her night sleep
if she's still waking up throughout the
night and can be hard to settle and
doesn't go down so easily at bedtime on
her own then it's so certainly something
that I would encourage you to work on
first because naps can often just get
better as a result of better night's
sleep so that's fantastic you don't have
to work so hard enough naps are often
the hardest aspect of baby sleep to fix
that's the truth what I do my approach
is a bit unconventional I think if your
baby's younger than six months and is a
serial crap number I encourage you to
help her nap in a way in any way
possible so especially if she has silent
reflux and she's four month old I think
it's perfectly acceptable to nap in the
swing because it's more upright so the
reflux won't bother her as much and then
often the nap the motion will help your
baby nap longer if she's in the swing
you want to supervise her naps so you
just want to make sure even if she's in
her dark bedroom you want to be popping
in there you want to have the video
monitor on her to make sure she's okay
because we don't really want
unsupervised naps in the swing so I
would say it's perfectly acceptable no
mom guilt utilize motion naps
baby carrier stroller the swing
vibrating chair do this until she's
about six months and then hopefully she
will have outgrown her reflux and then
we can really work on getting her
napping longer on her own more
independently but also depending on how
her night sleep is going there are
certainly steps that you can take to
help her with her night sleep a good
first place to start is my sir
exhausting mom survival kit that'll help
walk you through bed time and how to set
up a peaceful nightly ritual for your
baby and I do
and then once she's five months or a bit
older then we can really work on helping
her sleep longer stretches at night
often just doing the steps at the
survival kit will help maybe sleep
better usually at least one of the night
waking disappears or they maybe sleeps
longer stretches but for a lot of babies
we still have to fine-tune some things
and so that's when parents join me in 21
days to be some quiet at four and a half
months you want to really stick to an
hour and a half to two hour or week
times throughout the day so make sure
she's not going too long make sure she's
not going over two and a half hours in
between naps and even in the morning
that first awake time in the morning can
even be as short as an hour and a half
babies are often ready for a nap I feel
that short of them a time a time but do
whatever it takes right now and if she's
in the four-month regression do whatever
it takes for you to get some down time
for her to get the rest that she needs
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