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How to Get Baby to Sleep Longer: Short Naps and Night Wakings

Does your baby wake up after short naps of 45 minutes? Maybe your little one still wakes every hour at night. You just want to get your baby sleeping longer, and eventually sleeping through the night!

It's not easy having your baby wake up fussy after only 45 minutes of napping, or even worse - nighttime sleep.

Find out exactly why your baby is taking short naps and waking often at night. You'll learn how to get your baby to fall asleep on their own - the first step towards getting your baby sleeping through the night!

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Baby waking up after 45 minutes – SOLUTIONS!

Napping for babies under 6 months old can often be unpredictable. They can often have short naps.

It’s really not a problem unless you notice that your baby is really crabby, fussy, clingy and overtired. If he’s crying quite a lot and just seems unhappy.


Baby Sleep Cycles
If your baby’s not like that, I wouldn’t worry too much about 45-minute naps. Baby sleep cycles are anywhere from 40-50 minutes. The reason your baby consistently wakes after 45 minutes is because she’s finished a sleep cycle. As she gets older, she will develop the ability to link several sleep cycles together, resulting in a really long sleep period.

You may have a baby who wakes up really, really often, every night. Sometimes, every 45 minutes! Parents are so confused as to why their baby wakes every 45 minutes. The reason is because she’s finishing a sleep cycle.

For some babies, it’s really hard for them to finish a sleep cycle and start a new one. Often, they wake up fully between sleep cycles.

Usually, these babies are assisted to fall asleep. They are nursed, rocked or held to sleep. Sometimes they use a pacifier. So what happens when they are between sleep cycles and they wake up, is that they need that sleep prop again. They need the pacifier, or the rocking, or to nurse.


The Key to Teaching Babies to Link Sleep Cycles
The key to teaching your baby to link their sleep cycles is to teach them to fall asleep on their own. That’s what I do with parents in my programs – in 21 Days to Peace and Quiet and in my Getting Downtime in the Daytime napping program.

I show parents how to teach their babies to fall asleep on their own.

The logic is like this: Your baby falls asleep with a pacifier in her mouth. When she wakes up 45 minutes later and doesn’t have her pacifier, she’s going to need you to come in and give it to her if she’s too young to put it in by herself.

If you nurse your baby to sleep, when she wakes up and she’s not nursing, she’s not in the same environment as when she fell asleep. She doesn’t know how to fall back asleep on her own now that she’s woken up in between sleep cycles.

We work to slowly and gradually teach your baby to fall asleep on her own. So that she can then link those sleep cycles.

She will wake up and think, “Okay, I’m in my crib. My white noise is going. I’ve got my sleep sack on. Nothing has changed about this environment, and I know how to fall back asleep because I’ll just to exactly what I did when I fell asleep for this nap.”

I don’t think you should push her at this age. There are certainly things you can do first. I don’t recommend that you start working on that straight away, because that can be too many steps ahead for your baby. 4 months can be too early for some babies.


For 5/6 Month Old Babies
For other parents, if your baby is 5/6 months or older and is continually waking throughout the night, what we need to do is to get them falling asleep on their own. If you know that your baby is waking too often and that they don’t need to feed again, this is what you do.

Then they will sleep longer periods at night. They will only wake and call out for you when they truly need you – if they’re hungry, or cold, or have genuine needs.

That’s what we work to have you do in the program.

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