Cara Dumaplin explains how too much daytime sleep can wreck your baby's nighttime sleep. Excessive naps make it harder for babies to consolidate sleep at night and can create a cycle that's tough to break.
Let's talk about too much sleep. Can a little one get too much sleep? Here's the truth. Most babies won't oversleep in a 24 hour period. Here's what can happen. They can get too much daytime sleep, which then can cause trouble at night because their body's like, hey, I got all the sleep I needed. So we'll start to see like struggles at bedtime or unnecessary night wakings or really early morning mornings. So in order to keep your night solid, I want to give you kind of a max number of hours that a little one can sleep during the day. Check out this next slide. Now I do want to remind you every baby is different. So if you're like, Cara, my baby's getting more than that and our nights are great, okay? You don't have to change anything. If bedtime struggles start or early morning start, or night waking start, check out your total daytime sleep. Now on the flip side, there's those of you that are like, wouldn't that be a dream? We can't get a nap longer than 30 minutes or 45 minutes. Okay, let's talk about that. Here's a blog all about short naps.
Now let me leave you with this. If daytime sleep, nighttime sleep, bedtime, if it's hard, I want you to know you don't have to do it alone. I have classes that can help you and I'll walk you through all of it and I'll meet your baby right where they are. You don't have to walk in knowing anything. You don't have to walk in like, okay, I've tried to get this perfect and now we're ready to have a good. I'm going to help you through it all, okay? That's what my classes do. So just know they're here for you. They come with 30 day money back guarantee. I believe with all my heart I can help you have a good sleeper. So just check this out. Just select your little one's age and we can get started.
