Baby Light Sleeper Naps

My baby is having a hard time with naps because the slightest noise a car even passing by wakes her up.

Baby light sleeper naps.

The 2 3 4 nap schedule that will get your baby to sleep marietta now four stayed in her parents room until she was four months old by which point her problems with noise and light and her tendency to wake whenever rezza or her husband moved had become a major issue. I am an extremely light sleeper myself but she is super cranky because she is not getting enough sleep. The first 20 or so minutes of a nap are light sleep or rem sleep. Toddlers need less sleep than infants at night.

I was even considering ear plugs. During these few months your baby s sleep will become a lot more like ours as adults with more distinct periods of light and deep sleep and more neurologically differentiated sleep cycles. Though her room was. Although your toddler s daytime sleep will steadily lessen as he gives up his 2 naps a day many toddlers still need 11 to 12 hours of nighttime sleep until they reach 5 years.

And as if that isn t hard enough he s also a very really ridiculously light sleeper and has always been. Even moving marietta to the nursery didn t help. Sometimes even if i turn my head or move my arm. I posted a few times before about my son who doesn t like sleep very much wakes up often at night puts up a fight for day naps etc.

Mathilda my oldest was always a light sleeper while her brother a j could nap in a construction zone. I guess it s mostly naps. And between 6 and 12 years of age kids sleep requirements will drop to 9 to 12 hours a day total. After that baby transitions into deeper or non rem sleep.

The idea behind wake to sleep is that you re supporting your child through the transition from one sleep cycle to the next. It is so tough to make him sleep through his naps. It s not loud where we live at all. His naps last anything between 5 60mins.

We co sleep and my every move can wake him. We usually put him in the cloth cradle for his naps and always on bed at nights. Slight to slightest sounds like my anklets or sneeze or even door bell can wake him up. In fact 3 6 months is the trickiest period of baby sleep.