How long do you give your LO(s) to nap?

SarahCee · October 2010

Lately R has been fighting his second nap even when his first nap is not so great. He doesn't cry, he'll just lay there and kick around maybe fuss a little. I'm just not sure how long to give him to fall asleep. How long do you give them before you let them win? I always feel like if I wait 5 more minutes he might fall asleep- but after over an hour I'm feeling really guilty...

amyfelice · October 2010

Well I know my girl and if it takes more than 40 minutes, she is just not going for it. Strange for him to be resisting so much, does he seem tired? Maybe it is too early? Or can you change up the routine? One thing I was doing that was bad was I was giving her a bottle up in her room and then reading her stories and then putting her down in the crib and finishing the bottle. the nanny said she reads downstairs and just gives her the bottle upstairs and leaves. I found once I stared doing that she started going to sleep much quicker (unless she poops).

I guess it was "How long can i keep mommy here? " or "playtime again!" or something. Before it was taking much longer.

SarahCee · October 2010

He seems tired- his eyes never lie about that. We've been on the two hour routine- after 2 hours of being awake it's time for a nap. I'm thinking that he may be getting closer to one nap. If I push back the 2nd nap too much it pushes back bedtime, etc. I'm always checking for poop when I go in to check on him. When I hear him in there over the monitor, I can tell by his noises that he is tired. For naps, I bring the bottle in his room and we'll read a story and he'll drink the bottle and he goes down. It's sort of our time to unwind a little. I dunno. Maybe I should be getting him up earlier in the mornings and just add an extra hour between naps? And of course the never ending "could be teething" is in my mind. thanks for the advice, Amy :-)

amyfelice · October 2010

It's a little early to go to one nap. Teething definitely messes up naptime. What is the schedule right now if I can ask?

soon2Bkranz · October 2010

For jonathan at that age he was up about 2 hrs before his morning nap and I never let it go longer than 45 mins-1 hr. Then he went down for his afternoon nap 2.5-3 hours after he woke up. And I tried to keep him as active as I could in the morning after his first nap

Mrs.BoomBoom · October 2010

I'll leave him until he screams. As long as he's hanging out and happy, I leave him be.

SarahCee · October 2010

amyfelice:
It's a little early to go to one nap. Teething definitely messes up naptime. What is the schedule right now if I can ask?

I was thinking (and hoping) that it's too early to drop a nap too. His schedule now is- wake up about 6am, have a bottle & back down until about 8am. Bottle, play, breakfast, another bottle (usually only half) then down for nap #1 by 11am. Up by 1pm, play, lunch, bottle down again by 3:30. Up by 5pm, play, dinner, bottle, bath & bed by 7pm. Of course it all changes if he doesn't go back down in the am or we are out running errands or whatever. He still has no teeth- been noming and drooling like crazy for months. Our answer is always "must be teething", I now hate the word teething.

NCSW · October 2010

At that age, an hour was usually our cut off. I hope he starts napping better soon!

Someone else mentioned teething... That definitely threw a huge wrench in Maddie's naps.

amyfelice · October 2010

You may not like this option but it seems like he may need to get up earlier to get two naps in

Or you could try for the first nap earlier (10?) and make sure it is not longer than one hour, that would push the second one up a bit, maybe make it easier.

'Elena could never fall asleep after a certain time even if she was tired.

SarahCee · October 2010

Thank you all for the advice, I'm going to give it a few more days and then start changing the ol' schedule around.

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