We're back in the Sleep Detectives hot seat answering your real baby sleep questions — bottles, naps, toddler boundaries, split nights, daycare schedules and a very important Fiji trip. Subscribe and never miss an episode at www.naptrappedpodcast.com
What You'll Learn:
- When to drop the morning and before-lunch bottles (the exact ages)
- How to protect your toddler's sleep when a new baby arrives — and what NOT to change
- The transitional schedule explained: why it doesn't have to look textbook
- Early rising vs. actually early rising — and why we almost never make a nap drop off an early rise
- Split nights: what they actually are (and what's just a resettle going nowhere)
- How to audit a 1am wake with a sleep trained 13 month old
- The pilot analogy from Dr Becky that reframes holding a boundary with a toddler
- Why six months is prime time for sleep shaping
- Daycare schedules with fixed bottle and nap times — how to make it work
- Fiji with a five month old: do you stay on Sydney time or just get on Fiji time?
Chapters:
00:00 – Welcome to Sleep Detectives
00:33 – Dropping bottles: before-lunch and morning bottle ages
02:00 – Protecting toddler sleep when a new baby arrives
06:40 – 12 month old on transitional schedule: one and a half hour afternoon nap
11:22 – 18 month old on one nap: should I wake at two if she'll sleep till three?
12:31 – 14 month old: early waking and 20 minutes to self-settle — time for one nap?
17:18 – 1am wake with a sleep trained 13 month old — split night or resettle?
25:50 – Dr Becky's pilot analogy and holding boundaries with toddlers
31:07 – Six month old: when to start waking from naps to get on a schedule
34:20 – Eight month old in daycare five days a week: adapting nap and feeding advice
39:45 – Five month old trip to Fiji: Sydney time or Fiji time?
41:02 – Wrap up
ABOUT NAP TRAPPED:
Nap Trapped is hosted by Sally Woods (The Sleep Concierge) and Bec Maher (The Sleep Centre) — two sleep consultants, two mothers, one podcast dedicated to evidence-based baby and toddler sleep support in plain language. No empty promises, no guilt, just real answers for tired parents.
Links:
Instagram Sally: https://www.instagram.com/thesleepconcierge/
Instagram Bec: https://www.instagram.com/_thesleepcentre/
Website: www.naptrappedpodcast.com
