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Tips for getting them to nap at the same time

BitterOldHagBitterOldHag
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In the past we just let them fall asleep in their bouncers but are trying to establish a routine. They've slowly been napping in their cribs and getting better at a nap overlap.

I'm solo tomorrow so how should I approach this for the day?  Any advice would be helpful.

TIA.

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Re: Tips for getting them to nap at the same time

  • jenn_darrin1515jenn_darrin1515 member
    I hope someone has some good tips - my girls are all over the place (literally) for thei naps...I've let it go since they are such good sleepers at night...but DH usually gets laid off in jan & feb (he works construction) and I am very afraid if they aren't on a decent schedule...
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  • Temp159135562506975Temp159135562506975 member

    do you feed at the same time? My guys usually nap at the same time... sometimes one naps longer/shorter, but usually around the same time.  We have always kept them on the same schedule with eating/sleeping- and now their bodies are just in tune that way.

    i'm finding that thier napping habits are changing now as they get older, though- both of them - they nap a lot less in the am, and then have one longer nap in the pm from about 1:30-4pm, which is nice b/c it's part of the time my toddler naps- so i get a LITTLE me time each day.

    if you think of how daycares do it --- they don't have babies napping at the same times- because you just can't always do it that way - they are all so different in needs at that age.  When they get older then you can work on doing naps at the same time each day for both - for sure.  Our daycare had the kids napping at the same time (2 naps/day) starting around 10 months.... then around 16mos they were all on 1 nap/day at the same time --- it takes some time for them to get used to it- and in the mean time they had to do quiet time laying down -- but eventually they all rest at the same time each day.

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  • MiaVonTMiaVonT

    I tried getting them on schedule and to sleep at the same time but I have to remember they are two different people with different sleep habits. BUT I have noticed a time pattern of when one will sleep and so will the other .... for now I like it this way .. I can give the awake one individual attention and do things around the house. When they're older I think I will FORCE them to try and nap at the same time. DS is usually a long napper and DD is a cat napper .... so I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't.

     

    Either way GL

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  • heathb21heathb21
    I put mine down at the same time, but DS is a cat napper.  DD usually takes one longer nap a day, and then skips DS's last nap.  But DD also screams herself to sleep, so by the time she's done screaming DS is up 10 minutes later!  It's very frustrating!
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  • meldoo2002meldoo2002 member

    Are they identical or fraternal?  My Healthy Sleep Healthy Habits or whatever book it's called talks about twins and that coinciding schedules is much harder with fraternal twins.  Identical twins tend to be easier to get on a schedule.  Anyway... I may be the only person but I wake one sometimes.  If one wakes up at 6am.. I don't let the other sleep past 6:30 or so.... then they are both ready for a nap by 9am.  We have always fed them at the same time so we've been doing naps at the same time for at least 5 months now.  

    Our schedule is

    up around 6am, first bottle

    7:30 solids

    9-10:30 nap

    10:30 bottle

    12pm solids

    1:30-2:30 or 3 nap

    bottle when up

    4:30 solids

    6:00 bottle

    6:15 bed 


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