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Feel like my entire day is spent trying to get LO to nap!

daisygirl2010daisygirl2010
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Anyone else?? 

Sometimes she goes down fairly easy - but most of the time it's a bit of an ordeal...and then if she takes a really short nap, we are trying again in 60-90 minutes (since she's clearly tired at that point!) 

I'm terrified to stop swaddling her for naps since the couple times I've tried she only lasts 20 minutes or so.  AND we have to transition to the crib at some point (figure we'd start that with naptime too).  UGH  Just when we've got some things figured out we have to change them!!

 

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Re: Feel like my entire day is spent trying to get LO to nap!

  • The future Mrs. MinterThe future Mrs. Minter member

    I could have written this post EXACTLY. We are finally starting to get a routine morning nap, but the afternoon is a crap shoot. And I feel like a fail her when I know she's tired and can't help her sleep. And I, too, am terrified of unswaddling her. 

    I find comfort in the fact that almost all moms with LOs our age seem to be anxious about the same things...but my own personal happiness seems to hinge a bit on a nap schedule. Seems so silly!

    I'm hoping that a month from now we'll feel a lot better about this. I just keep trying to look for sleepy cues and do the best I can to help her get to sleep. Most the time she nurses to sleep (not a habit I want to keep too long) but if she wakes up, it's really tough to get her to go back to sleep.  

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  • magdalina.hmagdalina.h member
    Lucas is a pretty good napper on the weekends. I fill his belly, put him down drowsy, turn on the sound machine and turn off the lights.
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  • emerlynemerlyn

    This is how I was a few weeks ago, until I just couldn't take it anymore. I rocked him till he was drowsy, then put him in the bassinet. I went to check on him every few minutes, he was fussing, but not screaming..and then he fell asleep. Since then i've done the same routine, and he has been a pretty good napper. He also just started liking the swing...

    Maybe you can start a nap routine? I would wait for a sleepy cue, swaddle him, rock him, sing the same 3 lullabies, and then put him down....now sometimes I don't even have to rock him, unless I want some cuddle time!

    Good luck, it's VERY frustrating

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  • SkiesOfBlueSkiesOfBlue member
    This is such a big stress for me. Almost everytime she needs to nap I have to rock her to sleep and gently put her down. Most naps are just 40 minutes so soon it's time to do it all over again. It takes me anywhere from 10-20 minutes to get her into a deep enough sleep that she will easily be put down. I hope she grows out of this. In the last couple of weeks she actually fell asleep in the swing 2-3 times which was unheard of before so maybe the end is near!
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  • myszkomyszko
    I don't even try that hard to get DD down anymore because it's pointless. She's starting to take a morning 'nap'. I rock and sometimes feed her till she's asleep or almost asleep. Then I lay her in her crib where she sleeps for about 15 minutes and then lays there talking to the lights for another 15-30 minutes. I can't even get her to do that in the afternoon unless I nurse her to sleep lying down. Then I get up to 40 minutes.
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