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Cat-Naps -- Making Short Naps Longer
by Elizabeth Pantley Is your child a cat-napper? Does your baby fall asleep being fed, while in a car seat, sling, rocker, or someone's arms? When transferred to bed, does your baby then sleep 30 to 50 minutes? That's the exact length of one sleep cycle. These factors combined define the main cause of mini-naps: an inability to fall asleep or stay asleep without aid your baby wakes fully at the end of the first sleep cycle, resulting in a too-short nap. I refer to this problem as One-Cycle Sleep Syndrome (OCSS). This leads us to understand the reason that many babies are cat-nappers and also directs us to potential solutions...
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