s/o: switched to toddler bed and naps are horrible

Re: s/o: switched to toddler bed and naps are horrible

• LaLaSweets member

  July 2010

  DD is a wonderful sleeper in her toddler bed but yeah naps are different.Unless she is really tired, i would have her lay down and I would read a couple of stories. I'm off with her for the summer and the weekends. she usually will fall asleep on my bed or the couch and I would just put her in her bed. Sitting with them helps and maybe rubbing her back
  

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• ScoobyM

  July 2010

  My DD was always a bad napper.  For the most part, she would go into her crib easily enough after some quiet play and a few stories, but would play in there instead of settling down to sleep once I/the nanny left the room.  If we were lucky the play was quiet but eventually she would start jumping up and down in the crib, throw her blankets and lovies out, and mess with the curtains and blinds (which she could reach from the crib).  On good days she would do that for anywhere from 30-45 min then finally fall asleep and sleep for 2+ hours.  I'd say for the past few months she actually slept during naptime about 3-4 times a week. 

  Now that we had to move her out of the crib, naps are non-existent.  Our nanny has gotten her to fall asleep twice over the last week and a half by sitting in the room with her and rubbing her back, stroking her hair, etc., and just basically soothing her to sleep, which took a pretty long time.  If we try the old routine of wind down and stories, she is up as soon as we leave the room and although she can't get out, she plays and pretty much destroys her room - not exactly resting time.  That said, we are sticking with it for a while yet in the hopes that she is still getting used to her new freedom outside the crib and may yet start to sleep again.  She really needs it;  she has always been a really cheerful kid but lately she's been much more fussy and grumpy and I think it's lack of sleep.

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• Lisichka

  July 2010

  ScoobyM:

  My DD was always a bad napper.  For the most part, she would go into her crib easily enough after some quiet play and a few stories, but would play in there instead of settling down to sleep once I/the nanny left the room.  If we were lucky the play was quiet but eventually she would start jumping up and down in the crib, throw her blankets and lovies out, and mess with the curtains and blinds (which she could reach from the crib).  On good days she would do that for anywhere from 30-45 min then finally fall asleep and sleep for 2+ hours.  I'd say for the past few months she actually slept during naptime about 3-4 times a week. 

  Now that we had to move her out of the crib, naps are non-existent.  Our nanny has gotten her to fall asleep twice over the last week and a half by sitting in the room with her and rubbing her back, stroking her hair, etc., and just basically soothing her to sleep, which took a pretty long time.  If we try the old routine of wind down and stories, she is up as soon as we leave the room and although she can't get out, she plays and pretty much destroys her room - not exactly resting time.  That said, we are sticking with it for a while yet in the hopes that she is still getting used to her new freedom outside the crib and may yet start to sleep again.  She really needs it;  she has always been a really cheerful kid but lately she's been much more fussy and grumpy and I think it's lack of sleep.

   Yikes, poor thing! After she doesn't nap, do you just let her be or do you try to put her down for a short nap a little while later, in hopes that she's tired herself out? Or just do an earlier bedtime?
  

  
  
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