Short Naps & False Starts — How to make naps longer and mornings later

For 2–18 months. Change the day today. See the evening change this week.

Your baby goes down at 7pm. At 7:45 they are screaming like it is morning. Naps are forty-five minutes, every time. You have spent three weeks trying to fix both in the bedroom.

Instead: you find out these are the same problem with the same cause — and it is not the crib, the blackout blind, or the white noise. It is what happened between 2pm and 7pm.

Awake times by age, the math for the last stretch of the day, and how to make a nap longer without standing over the crib for an hour.