Day sleeping

Well after Jack relied on feeding to go to sleep I made sure that wouldn't happen with Caprece so now she relies on rocking to go to sleep

She sleeps fine during the night but the daytime is a joke. I put her in her bed awake all wrapped up with dummy and music then she cries so I go in there and they only way to get her to sleep is by shaking her bed. If I stop before shes asleep she just starts crying. But if I stop while shes asleep she wakes up after about 30 mins max. She then thinks she needs a feed as well so she now is snacker who feeds every 1-2 hours during the day.

So how do I get her to go to sleep on her own without leaving her to cry (which I really doubt would work anyway)?

I have a similar problem Rach, if you find something that works please tell me!!! hehe

Daniel will be yawning, rubbing his eyes, tired little boy, hes fed and everything is fine but wont go to sleep during the day for longer than about 45mine without me. I've tried letting him cry it out, doesn't work at all.

Its exhausting!

A mobile makes things worse in our house. He is too nosey and will just look and listen and wake himself up if its on by getting all excited over it.

Brenna was always a 45 min day sleeper (once she finally went to sleep!) I tried all sorts of things... in the end I used controlled crying (plunket line talked me through it). It was hard at the time but eventually worked for getting her to sleep, but not for getting past 45 mins.

Another thing they suggested was at about 40 mins to creep into her room and sit down beside the cot and reach through the bars and gently pat her when she stirred. This worked for get her sleeping for longer, but it took up so much of my time!! (about 20 minutes each time) I kept it up for about a week, but eventually just resigned myself to the fact that she would only ever do 45 mins...but since about 8 months, she has started doing 1 1/2 hours fairly regularly during the day - woo hoo!!

I found plunket line really helpful with lots of different strategies

Maya was a 40 minutes at a time day sleeper and nothing I could do would change it. She was happy when she woke up tho, and would be up for a couple of hours quite happily.
The gremlins were 40 minute at a time day sleepers but they woke up grouchy and would only stay up less than an hour before they lost the plot. I talked to Louise and the Sleep Store, and read an article she wrote called Daytime Slep Solutions for Older Babies and Toddlers and she has some great ideas that work even for quite small babies. I started using their sleepsacks during the day (I had only been using them at night), and closing their curtains so the room was darker and all of a sudden they started sleeping up to two hours at a time. Louise also talks about 45 minutes being the length of each sleep cycle so it's not uncommon for babies to wake and grizzle or rustle around this time and then resettle, the important thing is whether or not they are able to settle themselves. A great article, well worth reading, worked for us! I now get 2 x 2 hour naps out of the gremlins during the day plus 12+ hours at night, and believe me, they are not naturally good sleepers!

I always used to have their curtains open during the day to help them distinguish between night and day but I guess now they have an established bed time routine which tells them it's nighttime, and the darker room during the day is less distracting for them.