Reasons for Short Naps
Short nap we considering ones what lasts 15 to 45 minutes. There can be several reasons for that:
Sleep regressions:
4 month sleep regression sign is sudden nap shortage, usually it’s last upto 1 sleep cycle - 35/40 minutes. To help it, mom can try to prolong this short naps by breastfeeding, tapping or rocking.
Hunger:
Pre morning hours: most of the young kids do woking up between 5 to 6 am for co called “pre morning feed”, specially those who sleep night in a stretch. Mom will need to breastfeed or formula feed the baby to continue sleep upto appropriate hours.
Lunch time: if kid do taking solid, good lunch can balance and prolong sleep naturally.
Dinner time: good dinner can help your baby sleep through the night or at stretch.
Light and sound:
The base of good sleep is blackout curtains in the room where baby sleeps, absence of sound and presence of white noise.
Overtiredness:
If child was too tired or had poor rest over the day, tears, - he had collected stress hormones, what won’t let him rest well and baby sleep will be partial and bothered.
Undertiredness:
Child not yet ready to sleep or had very short nap in between what interrupted next sleep.
Incorrect timing for naps:
Connected to unbalanced day sleep routine, child taking too long to fall asleep - 1 hour and more.
Negative sleep associations: breastfeeding to sleep, rocking to sleep, sleep on lap, etc. This all baby demands again once awake in between the sleep cycles In order to sleep back again.