Short Naps | Everything you need to know

Short naps driving you nuts? In this class we explain why 30 to 40 minute naps are common, when to ride it out, and simple tweaks that help naps stretch.

What you’ll learn:

👶🏼 What’s normal by age, including the 4 month sleep change
👶🏼 Wake windows that build healthy sleep pressure
👶🏼 Environment basics for longer naps (dark room, safe sleep, comfy temp)
👶🏼 When and how to cap total day sleep
👶🏼 Independent sleep skills, plus how to extend just one nap
👶🏼 Quick fixes for 5 to 6 months and 10 to 12 months

Who this helps:

⭐️ Babies who self settle at night but catnap in the day
⭐️ Parents juggling on-the-go naps and contact naps
⭐️ Families wanting practical, non judgemental guidance

Try these today:

✅ First wake window is usually shortest. Lengthen slightly as the day goes on.
✅ Place feeds in the first half of the wake window, not right before sleep.
✅ Pick one nap to extend, not every nap.

CHAPTERS
00:00 – Welcome and what this class covers
01:30 – Quick disclaimer
02:00 – Meet Evie
03:00 – Sleep as a whole picture
04:30 – Short naps are normal, the 4-month shift
07:00 – Environment for better naps
10:30 – Wake windows and sleep pressure
15:30 – Real schedules and total day sleep
18:30 – Nap timing at 8-9 months
19:30 – Not a regression, changing needs
20:30 – 6-9 months, moving from 3 naps to 2
22:30 – Independent sleep skills and linking cycles
26:30 – Build daytime structure before teaching independence
27:30 – Naps on the go, gentle cot practice
33:00 – Q&A: 5 months, 40-minute naps and linking
36:30 – Q&A: Move from nursing-to-nap to independent at 3 months
41:00 – Q&A: 11 months, work on nights and days together
44:30 – Q&A: Room sharing, when one nap might be needed
48:00 – Q&A: 20 months, preschool nap shift and bedtime
51:30 – Quiet time ideas when naps shorten
53:30 – Q&A: 5 months, self settles at night but needs rocking for naps
55:00 – Q&A: Keeping a 7 pm bedtime on holiday
58:00 – Wrap up and how to get help