Okay mamas, I need your help. How do I get my eight week old baby to take a nap? ”L” sleeps great at night. For about a month now she’s been sleeping a solid six hours, waking up for a bottle and then going back to sleep for another two and a half to three hours before waking up again. So night times aren’t too bad. I am breastfeeding, so I’m awake every few hours to pump, but for the most part both the hubby and I are getting decent sleep at night. It’s during the day that things get a little rocky.
All “L” wants to take during the day are a handful of teeny tiny cat naps. Maybe 20 minutes at the most. It’s long enough for me to take a shower or start a load of laundry or empty and refill the dishwasher. What it isn’t long enough for is much of anything else. Now I realize at eight weeks we aren’t really going to have a “rhythm” down yet… but is there anything I can do to encourage her to sleep longer? If she could get in a two hour nap at some point I think she would do better in the evenings. We tend to have an all out baby melt-down some time between 4:30p and 7:00p. She becomes inconsolable and it takes 20 minutes plus to get her to relax enough to even eat.
I would love any advice that you mamas out there in cyber-mommy-space are able to share.
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