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    Posted: 29 August 2012 at 10:29am
Hi,

My 4 month old sleeps 12 hours at night and then has 3 to 4 45 minute naps during the day. This is our current flexi routine.

In your seminar you put a fair bit of emphasis on resettling your baby so that it sleeps through two cycles. Is this necessary if they nap so often?

Thanks so much,
Kat
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I think you're asking the baby-whisperer-lady, but my two cents for what it's worth: I've have two catnapping babies. The first one, I tried everything under the sun to get him to sleep more than one sleep cycle. Nothing worked (except for very limited success with a dummy) and I thought he'd be ruined for life Of course, he grew up, at about age one when he dropped to one nap a day and started sleeping much longer.

Number two is also a catnapper. This time, I'm not stressing. She can sleep in 45-minute blocks if she wants. It's a much more pleasant experience, and I know she'll grow out of it with time. So if baby is happy and you're happy, do remember that chosing not to worry is a valid option

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Thanks Hopes,

I am a real fretter and considering this is NOT WHAT I want my child to become perhaps I should chillax. It's so easy to get caught up in the rules (or lack of).

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Have to say I'm with Hopes on this one. My twins were catnappers and I tried every trick I could find to get them to sleep longer during the day, nothing worked and once a week they would each have a longer sleep unaided by me.

It was so stressful always trying to get them to sleep and in hindsight not worth the drama.

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I'm with Hopes and Danda.
I remember the plunket nurse telling me that if I couldn't get DS to sleep more than one sleep cycle during the day he'd never sleep through the night - despite the fact he already was!!! (sounds like yours is too!). He happily has 2-2 and half hour naps during the day now.
The hours I wasted trying to get him back to sleep ... I agree, not worth the drama. He got there in the end.
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#3 here is the cat napper but sleeps all night so I can't complain

Like the others say she throws in the longer sleep in the arvo sometimes. No idea how or when or why she does it
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My advice, put the jug on as soon as he goes down, that way you have 40 minutes to enjoy the cuppa tea....

Mum to a catnapper.

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