NAPS!!!

Malin22000

So Elli sleeps great at night but naps horribly. She only sleeps 30-45 minutes and wakes up. That would be fine but she wakes up still tired and cranky because she needs to sleep longer. She goes down fine in her crib but what she wants to do is wake up, nurse, fall asleep while nursing and sleep on me. I can't put her down after she does this and I don't want her getting into this habit. I have a hard time letting her stay in her crib to go back to sleep because 1. It doesn't seem to work no matter how long I leave her 2. We have a tenant and I hate to have her crying disturb him (he works from home). Any suggestions for a desperate mamma?

babybmom

I'm interested to see the responses. I have a similar issue. Cara only naps 25-30 mins at a time, and once she's awake, she's awake. She gets cranky again about half an hour after she wakes, but she will.not go back to sleep. I'd like her to sleep longer at one time rather than 4 or 5 short naps a day.

hypotheticalme

No advice but we're right there with you. I can get him back down to extend a nap once every few days if I spend ten or twenty minutes rocking him. Most of the time he's wide awake after 30 minutes though.

Malin22000

faupanda:

I let her CIO for at least 5 minutes.  If it's a distress cry I go in immediately, but if she is still tired, she will cry/whimper, and go right back to sleep.  She would never sleep in the crib, and I just stuck to my guns and let her wimper it out.  She gives us 2-3 hour stretches.

 I wish she would whimper/cry it out but she full out screams and doesn't stop until I get her. I've tried to let her CIO but I can't let her go longer than 5-10 min, both for my own sanity and for my tenant. That's of full out crying... if she was just crying on & off and/or whimpering, I would leave her longer. Other times she wakes up happy but is tired again 30 minutes later as PP said. She's also an extremely light sleeper though, maybe this has something to do with it?

bluejetta

faupanda:

I let her CIO for at least 5 minutes.  If it's a distress cry I go in immediately, but if she is still tired, she will cry/whimper, and go right back to sleep.  She would never sleep in the crib, and I just stuck to my guns and let her wimper it out.  She gives us 2-3 hour stretches.

We started doing this 2 weeks ago.  Sometimes we still get 45 min naps but many of the naps have gone to an hour or up to 2.5 hours.  We also leave her in the crib a full hour even when she wakes early and many times she'll fuss or babble and then go back to sleep -- depends on how tired she is. If she wakes hungry then she wakes cranky. 

ALF222

We were having this problem and it was solved when we went back to swaddling her. We typically now get an hour or so, four times a day. Not sure that helps you though...

Malin22000

alfontaine:

We were having this problem and it was solved when we went back to swaddling her. We typically now get an hour or so, four times a day. Not sure that helps you though...

 I'm so tempted to go back to swaddling her but I hate to go backwards. Hmmm, you just tempted me more.

Laura8415

We're still having this problem.  LO sleeps great at night in his crib - will wake up and put himself back to sleep, etc.  He takes great naps at DC during the week in his crib there.  BUT - at our house on the weekends?  Forget it.  I haven't been able to get him to take a nap in his crib in weeks.  He will only sleep on either DH or myself.  I will put him down in his crib while he is drowsy but awake, and then the screaming starts.  No whimpering for him, either.  This goes on for about a half an hour or so before I give up and take him downstairs... where he immediately falls asleep in my lap.  Not sure which method of sleep training we need to do for naps...