[gosia76]

Hi everyoneJust today I moved my 6.5month old out of her basinette in our room to her big girl cot in her nursery (she has outgrown the basinette).The problem is that she falls asleep in there without a problem (I just pop her in and she chats for a few minutes and dozes off) but she wakes after a 45min-1hr sleep cycle. Although that may sound ok, she has always been a brilliant sleeper sleeping at lead 1.5-2 hours at a time in her basinette. This was largely due to the fact that if she did stir in the basinette after a sleep cycle, I could just rock her back to sleep in her basinette and she'd sleep longer. I cant do this in her cot I know she's capable of sleeping more!What do other mums do to lull their babies post one cycle in a cot? She doesn't cry, just ready to play. Oh how I wish I could rock her for 5mins in the cot!! I know she would sleep more!Please help, any advice welcome. I put lullabies on and go in and shush her to no avail.Thanks

[aphraell]

I would rock her inside the cot (i.e. put my hand on her chest and gently roll/rock her side to side) and sometimes that would work.

I have seen people (including DD's daycare) put wheels on the cot (with breaks so they can be locked) and actually rock the cot back and forth and this seems to work well for some babies.

Good luck

[j-gray]

My DS (now 13 months) did 3 x 45 min naps for quite some time and only when he hit about 8-9 months did he switch to two longer sleeps. I was never able to resettle.

These days, he often wakes after one sleep cycle but I just leave him. He will usually have a chat to himself, then drift back off to sleep. Probably 1 out of 4 afternoon naps he will wake after one sleep cycle and not go back to sleep, at which point I have to get him out of the cot.

The fact that your DH used to sleep longer though shows she can do it again, she may just need to learn to soothe herself without the motion. How long do you wait before you go in ? Perhaps she might grizzle a bit then go back to sleep ?

good luck, I know how frustrating it can be !

[premmie_29weeks]

Until ds1 was about 8 months he only ever slept three cat naps a day. I tried and tried to resettle but in the end sometimes it was more trouble than it was worth to be honest. He started to sleep longer when he was 8ish months and on two sleeps a day.

Try to resettle with some patting and shush, over time they get the idea it may be she no longer needs three sleeps?

[Contrebasse]

If she's awake but not upset, I'd try leaving her to see if she goes back to sleep by herself. Sometimes my DD makes half awake noises for 20 minutes before going back to sleep for another 45.

[AvadaKedavra]

Her sleep needs might be changing. Babies at six months usually only need about 2.5-3 hours of naps a day. Some kids have four short 45 min naps, some have two short and one long, some have two long. It may not be the swap to the cot.

[Tesseract]

If she is waking up happy then I'd leave her for a while to see if she resettles herself (since she settles herself to go off to sleep this might work). If not then you could just get her up, a lot of babies only sleep 1 cycle despite numerous desperate interventions from their mothers (like mine!).

You could try dropping her to two naps to see if she goes longer then. FWIW at 6 months my DD was only having 2x45 minute naps a day, but she is a very low sleep needs baby - this was enough for her, she didn't get tired or grizzly etc.

Another option for getting them to go a second cycle is to sneak in 10 minutes before you know she is due to wake (so at about 35 minutes) and gently rock her body (as PPs have described) and shhhhh shhhhh - do this for about 15 minutes and hopefully it will get her over to the next cycle. If you do this for a week it will re-set a lot of babies and they'll start doing two cycles by themselves. (Although it never worked for us, as I said, DD just wasn't interested.)

[petitmode]

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Until ds1 was about 8 months he only ever slept three cat naps a day. I tried and tried to resettle but in the end sometimes it was more trouble than it was worth to be honest. He started to sleep longer when he was 8ish months and on two sleeps a day.

Try to resettle with some patting and shush, over time they get the idea it may be she no longer needs three sleeps?

This happens to us as well, DD was just a permanent cat-napper til she hits 8 mos. After which she then sleeps 80-90 mins each nap. Consequently she went from 4 short (30 min) naps to 2 naps & have since kept that schedule.
If she wakes up happy, then she might have got enough sleep anyway. Though if youre still keen you Might want to try resettling following pp's methods above (ps: a dark dark room also really helps!). It's a bit of trial & error and for me I'd eventually have to accept the fact that DD likes to catnap until she decided that she was ready to do otherwise

[Liz75]

I had the same issues when we moved to a cot. I did try rocking the cot but that did not work so I then tried rocking the baby to sleep. I would make sure he could not see my eyes and then rock him from side to side. It worked sometimes but found that eventually when he got used to the cot the long sleeps came back. You may just have a few bad days.

Alternatively my first son used to sleep on tummy from the moment he could roll, so I would turn his face away from mine and pat him firmly on the bottom. He would be back to sleep in minutes. I f you use this method you need to be firm in the pats so his body vibrates. It seems to settle them.

[libbylu]

DS would never self settle after one sleep cycle until we cut him down to one nap at around age one. Then he started sleeping for 2 hours! Before that it was only ever 45-50 minutes. I tried lots of things but nothing worked.