Nap help

snickersforeveryone

Em has started this thing if talking in her crib at nap time to avoid falling asleep. I've been leaving her as long as she's not super upset but the kid will seriously jabber to herself until it gets too late for her to nap at all. The only way to ensure she sleeps is to rock her with her sippy until she goes to sleep, then transfer her to her crib. I can't really invest that kind of time (an hour or more) to make her sleep since Nicholas inevitably starts crying for something.
She is teething (upper and lower canines are coming in) and she does well going to sleep at night. How do I fix naps? Do I need to wait until these teeth come through?

snickersforeveryone

Manda+Chase said:

Can you try putting her down for a nap earlier to accommodate the time it takes her to finally talk herself to sleep?

I'm sorry you're having a rough time!

I've tried earlier and it was a disaster because she wasn't tired enough. I tried later to see if being more tired would help and that didn't work either. I just don't know what to do.

snickersforeveryone

She only gets one nap a day and she's a total crankapotomus without it. We do the same thing for bed: get a sippy, get her blankie and Mr Hippo, and rock. Sometimes she goes to sleep but sometimes she finishes the milk and asks to be put in bed. If she's awake when we put her down then she talks and plays awhile, but no longer than 20 minutes before going to sleep.
I think we may have to do sleep training again, but sleepeasy says not to when they are teething. She's always freaking teething. So how does that work?!?!

apollonia10

It's counter intuitive, but can you put her down a little later and really tire her out beforehand? DS will chatter to himself for an hour if he's not tired, but if he's been running around, he's out before I shut the door.

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apollonia10 said:

It's counter intuitive, but can you put her down a little later and really tire her out beforehand? DS will chatter to himself for an hour if he's not tired, but if he's been running around, he's out before I shut the door.

I've thought of this but it's been hard to do with a newborn. Now that he's a month old I expect it will get easier to focus on running her around. I'll let you know how it works out!