My son Daniel is 20.5 weeks old - he will be 5 months on the 19th of November. So far Daniel has been quite a good sleeper. I have always tried to make sure he gets enough sleep in the 24 hours as per the age recommendations. When he was 3 months old we started to put him to sleep on his tummy and in 3 days he started to sleep through the night for 11 - 12h without any feedings. Once he turned 4 months things changed. It was really hard to get him to sleep at night and during the day so we started giving him a dummy. He did fall asleep better with it but then again started to wake up 4-5 times per night as he needed it to fall back to sleep again. Really regret having given it to him in the first place #-o
My friend recommended I read about the GNS cure. So I did. I really liked the idea and it all made such a perfect sense to me. Even before reading the book we had a schedule in place that worked quite well for us. Having read the book I pretty much kept it the same apart from introducing slight changes.
As Daniel is attending 3 different classes during the week (Tuesdays 11:15 - 12:00, Wednesdays 13:00-14:00 and Thursdays 11:00-12:00) the schedule I came up with is as follows:
Night: 19:30 - 7:30 (12h)
Breastfeed: 7:30-8:00
Nap: 9:15-10:00 (45min)
Breastfeed: 10:00-10:30
Nap 12:00-12:45 (45min)
Breastfeed 14:00-14:30
Nap 14:45 - 16:45 (2h)
Breastfeed: 17:00-17:30
Top-up: 19:00-19:30
I have started with GNS cure for Daniel this Thursday the 9th of November. So far everything has been good. It does take Daniel some time to fall asleep when I put him down for his night sleep and naps. On night 1 and 2 he fell asleep in about 25-30min. On the third night which is today he fell asleep in 15min. On day 1 and 2 he fell asleep for his morning and noon naps in about 7-9 minutes.
The nap I am really worried about is the afternoon nap which is the longest. Before the cure he slept this nap in his buggy and I rocked him to sleep. On some days he woke up only once during the nap, on the others he kept on waking up for up to 4-5 times and I had to give him the dummy again and again each time plus even rock him once in a while.
On the first day of the GNS cure Daniel slept his afternoon nap in the buggy as well. He fell asleep in 10min of rocking and jingling and slept well for the first 35min. After that he was screaming in his sleep so I had to rock him and jingle. As soon as I rocked him he calmed down but when I stopped and started to jingle he started crying again. He woke up bout 3-4 times and it wasn't easy to get him to calm down. Once we woke him up at 16:45 we felt that he started to lose his voice. As he is sleeping this nap outside I decided that from today he will sleep it in his cot as I don't want him to lose his voice screaming in the cold air. On the second day during the afternoon nap he slept for about 40min in total. He was screaming the house down. I tried to buff him as little as possible and focused more on the jingle as it was recommended in the book.
He fell asleep after 35min of positioning,buffing, fanning and jingling. Then slept for 30mins and screamed in his sleep for the rest of the nap while having only 10mins of quiet sleep during which he was sobbing and seemed to be really sad
![Crying or Very Sad :cry:](./images/smilies/icon/cry.gif)
Could you please help me to get Daniel to sleep peacefully through his afternoon nap. Any help and suggestions are really much appreciated. Please pardon if the description is too long and includes irrelevant and/or is missing any important information. I am more than happy to provide additional information if needed.
Thank you so much,
Jana