We did sleep training two weeks ago. DS has been pretty much been STTN for the last week. Some nights he will wake up once but be back asleep in less than 5 mins. He sleeps ~11 hours at night.
BUT his naps have gotten SO much worse. His first nap of the day is usually OK (60-120 mins, with a couple short wake-ups) but every other nap is 20 - 30 mins and he wakes up crying so I know he is still tired. Then he is a cranky mess bc he needs more sleep.
I don't know if it is related to STTN or maybe the 4 month wakeful during the day? We try sleep training/CIO when he wakes up but we never know how long to do it for and usually end up just getting him up bc it gets close to a feeding time. (He has been eating every 3 hours.)
If he took short naps and woke up happy, I would be OK with it, but he wakes up miserable and it sucks.
Re: Naps getting worse after STTN?
Yes, it's normal. Night sleep organizes first, then naps. You will probably have a really cruddy first nap of the day, then maybe a better 2nd nap, followed by a possible cat nap to hold over to bedtime (which will get dropped here soon.)
Eventually, I'm hoping to have my DD on a 9-10:30/11 and 1:00/1:30-3:30 type of nap routine. Until then, we ride it out
She's doing pretty well and has completely stopped using the swing in the last few weeks (thanks to some weaning)
I just say, be happy with that long stretch at night for the time being. As we get closer to 6 months, it will start working itself out.
Lately, the first nap has been the best nap of he day! It goes downhill after that:(
He sleeps 11 hours at night.
I must have jinxed it since he only slept 10 hours last night and was up at 5:15. Ugh. Way too early.
I am starting to think we may be keeping him up too long between naps. We have been pushing him to 2 hours of awake time and maybe it is too long.