Is your baby taking short naps?
Your baby may have been sleeping like an angel for it’s first few weeks of life and now no more. Depending on the age of your baby, it could be a few things. With my sleep training clients, it is usually an easy fix. Once a newborn gets out of their “sleepy newborn state”, they wake up to the world. This means, they are more awake and alert to their surroundings. This usually happens between 2-5 weeks of age. I tell my sleep training clients they have a few options. First, you can go into their room, try to pacify your baby back to sleep. Some babies will easily do this. Some wont. Some need to be held for a few minutes, shh shh patting their back, while others need to be sat with for 10-20 min to go back to sleep. Babies sleep in 45 min sleep cycles and we are teaching them to go back to sleep to continue on their own. Once we teach them this, they will learn to soothe themselves back to sleep. We are teaching them to sleep.
This can get frustrating at times when you have more then one child at home, trying to teach the new 
baby to go back to sleep, while your other child is peeping in, yelling for you or playing loudly in the doorway while you are trying to put your baby back to sleep. Another option is to let your baby cry back to sleep during their nap. This can be painful for mommy and daddy to hear, but this is not painful for the baby. It is their way of soothing back to sleep. Once practiced crying back to sleep for their nap, be consistent at each nap at home. This can be an easy fix, roughly about 3-7 days, give or take a few. Turn your TV on loud, put a load of laundry in, turn your music up or go outside and bring your monitor (on silent) and water the yard or read a book. You know your baby will be fed soon, so it is not a hunger issue. Just let your baby be and they will figure it out on their own how to go back to sleep...even if it’s off and on crying for 15-45 min. If your baby is just waking early from their nap, sometimes your baby may need 5-10 more or less minutes of awake time, which may be an easy fix as well. Just don’t get caught in one day pacifying, one day CIO back to sleep and the next day holding the rest of the nap. Just be consistent in whatever you do, and give it about 2 weeks of being consistent, to start to see some sucess.