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Babies: 3 - 6 Months
Moms of bad nappers -- commiserate with me
Do you ever feel like you spend all your time trying to get LO to sleep? We do have occasional good naps and do spend time playing and doing other things, of course, but my LO is such a sleep fighter 90% of the day. So today, for example, she napped for 20 minutes. Since then I've tried rocking her, nursing her, going for a walk in the stroller, going for a walk in the Moby, and now she is in her swing while I push it (the highest swing setting won't put her to sleep). It would be one thing if she didn't need the sleep, but she's fussy and constantly yawing, so we really can't do any activities except try to get her back to sleep. Anyways, I guess it's just one of those days... How do you spend "those" days with LO?
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Re: Moms of bad nappers -- commiserate with me
This is day 2 of one of those days. I don't know what his deal is. He is very tired and ready to sleep. But he fights falling asleep initially and when he does finally surrender he keeps crying...still half asleep but crying. It is so frustrating. Fortuntately even over tired LO is pretty good natured and he sleeps great at night.
DS has fought sleep since about 3wks old, UGH! On the rare occasion, he'll just go to sleep, no problem. But 90% of the time he gets fussy & gets to a point where he's crying so bad that he's sweating (doesn't matter if we leave him in his PnP or hold him). Once he falls asleep, we're lucky to get 30-60mins out of him.
Sometimes, he'll fall asleep while we're holding him & as soon as we put him down, he pops awake & wants to talk & play again.
I was about to post something like this! My LO was such a GOOD sleeper up until about 2-3 weeks ago. I know it is because he is more socially aware now, but still.....miserable. I went throug Hell with sleep with my first and vowed to do anything to keep that from happening this time. I've been consistent and have read many sleep books. I'm kind of going with what works for me. I will leave him to fuss for a little, but I don't have it in me to let him CIO at this young age!
He used to be up in the morning just like 30 minutes before needing a 30 minute nap. Today, I kept him up 1.5 hours in hopes that would produce a longer nap. Nope. Still 30 minutes. Then he was more tired than normal. Kept him up an hour and got him back down. Took forever, but he's alseep. We'll see how long this lasts.
It is hard with my older son. I spend so much time getting LO to sleep. It is hard on my older child. He's good most times with staying downstairs if I put on a show or something, but sometimes he forgets where I am and comes screaming up the stairs....therefore, waking up LO!
We're also having night waking issues when he used to sleep 6-7 hours. Ugh. we'll get there eventually!
This exactly. DD was inconsolable yesterday she got herself so overtired. We're trying more of a nap schedule today (Usually i put her down when i sense she's tired) and she still fights fights fights. She won't put herself to sleep, and needs to be bounced--which is tiring for me. We're going to try to get her used to napping on a schedule first, then tackle the falling asleep on her own. Even with the more structured naps both her naps today have only been a half an hour long...shorter than it took trying to get her to sleep both times!
DD never naps! It's driving me and our nanny crazy! I spend forever and a day trying to get her to sleep..she fights falling asleep and wakes herself up shortly into the nap..so then we try again...her best naps are only 1 hr, and usually I'm lucky to get 2 30 min ones. I am so relieved I'm not the only one. I feel like I do absolutely everything imaginable to get her to sleep and still nothing seems to work. She is just so active. The kicking, flailing, talking, rolling over just never stops.
This sounds exactly like us -- from the lucky to get two 30 minute naps to the kicking, flailing, and rolling over waking her up. Glad to know I'm not alone! Thanks to all you ladies for posting. While I don't wish this no napping on anyone, it does feel better to know that my LO isn't the only one!