How to Extend Your Baby's Short Naps (6 Quick Tips)

Caring for a baby who takes short naps throughout the day, can be very frustrating. A catnapping baby severely limit what you can do because you are constantly helping your baby fall sleep. Short naps can also lead to tired and cranky babies.

To fix short naps, you first need to understand why your little one is having short naps. Once you know the cause for the short naps you will be able to find the right baby sleep tips to extend your little one's naps.

In this video you will learn 6 different reasons for short naps and more importantly what you can do to fix your little ones' short naps!

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00:00 - 00:44 : Intro
00:45 - 01:14 : Short Nap Reason #1
01:15 - 02:06 : Short Nap Reason #2
02:07 - 02:54 : Short Nap Reason #3
02:55 - 04:11 : Short Nap Reason #4
04:12 - 04:44 : Short Nap Reason #5
04:45 - 06:07 : Short Nap Reason #6

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[EmmaHubbard]

Which one of these reasons do you think might be behind your baby's short naps?

[funsized]

Those short naps are fun with reflux babies because you have to hold them up for 30 minutes after a feed. which means once I finally get my daughter down for a nap, she's waking up 10 minutes later. 😵‍💫

[lordlemond]

Soothe for one hour. Sleep for 25mins. Awake for 40mins. Fun.

[ishakhan]

Your videos are the only reason, I want to have a second child because you made my life so much easier with my first. Lots and lots of love from a first time clueless mother 😊😊

[rovnqux]

You mentioned ages 3.5 months to 6 months what about 2 months? My newborn will not take a nap longer than 40 minutes by himself but has no problem sleeping longer stretches at night.

[molinteronyango]

It feels terrible. Just laying her down minutes later she's crying and I haven't even done anything .all the chores at stand.Makes me feel like crying.thanks for this.so informative

[leilanigray]

Thank you! My little babe would not take a nap for longer than 15-20 minutes. After watching this he’s been able to take naps! He slept the other day for 2hrs and I didn’t know what to do with myself. I love all your videos! Thank you again and keep being amazing for all of us!

[loracorwyn]

Super important for parents to know waking often is protective for babies. Thanks for the tips!

[lucieb]

Perfect timing, I was trying to find a video of you about this.

[Hannah-imfu]

Baby wearing saved me. 😊 My LO is 4 months old and naps for 2 hours. Plus, I get things done around the house. He wakes from a nap only when he is hungry so I breastfeed him before a nap, at the end of his wake window.

[TheRiveraFam]

These are all great tips but as a daycare provider myself I also think it’s important to not allowing them to get use to complete silence because when they transition to a daycare when it’s needed they have a really tough time sleeping as you can’t always keep all babies silent.

[UkkoYlijumala]

Here in Finland (and in other Nordic countries) it's common and also recommended to put your baby to sleep outside in the stroller. We do this even on winter and the temperature limit is usually considered to be around -10°C. Babies sleep so much better outside. Our twins sleep usually just about 30 minutes inside but outside it can be easily three hours. I guess it's because of the combinations of multiple things like fresh air, not much space to move, white noise from the nature and uninteresting environment etc. I know this might not be possible everywhere in the world but here it works. My Spanish wife for example has little bit hard times getting used to the idea of leaving baby outside alone. =) But it's fine as long as you have baby monitor and you make sure they have enough clothes to be warm.

[peninawainaina]

I learn alot from your videos being a first time mum of a 5 months baby👍

[zakiyanafisa]

New mom of a 2 month old baby girl. She’s always had a good sleep pattern until now. The last two weeks she’s been taking 2 one to two day naps and sleeping all night with cluster feeding everyone in the home has different work schedules so everyone is constantly in and out the door or in the kitchen cooking through the night I try to keep it quiet when she sleeps. But any little noise she awakes. If it’s too much noise she wakes. No noise at all she awakes and has been I’ve lost maybe 5lbs because she spends the day and night in my arms it’s kinda hard to eat and shower 💜😂

[judiechriss]

Being a first time mom of a 5months ...i live for your videos 😄..they're like a class i need to attend to pass Being a mom...thank you very very much.much love from Tanzania 🇹🇿

[LP-zczv]

My baby is almost a year and his naps are usually 40 Mims.. At night he wakes up anywhere between 5 to 15 times. I haven't slept more than 3 hours in a row this past year. I hope it gets better when I'm done nursing..

[dimahaddad]

Should daytime naps be in a dark room or not? I read that you should leave the baby in light during the day and dark at night to regulate the circadian clock but at what age should I make the room dark for her naps? My baby is 6 weeks

[seethelittlethings]

Thanks Emma, you're really hitting relevant topics

[crieverytim]

so thankful Sebastian sleeps 3hrs+. I often have to wake him at night. During the day, we wake every 2.5hrs. little gremlin is eating 4oz a feed at 12 days old 🤯

[katietwodogs]

YouTube suggested this after I got done telling my husband our little one was taking shorter naps. 🤣