What are your tricks/techniques to putting LO down for naps?

vilaro · May 2011

I feel like a bad mom. I can't seem to get my LO down for naps unless I place her in her beloved swing, and then she's out for a nice stretch. Even if I put her in the swing for a little while and then transition her into her bassinet, she wakes up and stays up, even after rocking her.

What do you guys do? The swing is such a crutch - I don't want to keep doing this.

ManiacMcGee · May 2011

My LO is so young all he does is nap. However, I'm worried about the swing becoming a crutch too. He's happy as a clam in that thing and fusses when it stops swinging. I've never managed to get him to nap anywhere but there and on one of us.

BBColt78 · May 2011

Well, my LO does not nap. I'm not kidding. Once in a while she'll pass out in her Moby. That's it. I don't try to make her either. To me, she's got her days and nights straight. She STTN most nights. So, I'm not forcing naps right yet.

htuzzi324 · May 2011

BBColt78:
Well, my LO does not nap. I'm not kidding. Once in a while she'll pass out in her Moby. That's it. I don't try to make her either. To me, she's got her days and nights straight. She STTN most nights. So, I'm not forcing naps right yet.

This. But if I can tell he really needs a nap, I swaddle him with arms out, and put him in his crib.

LadyXaverian · May 2011

Based on what I've read here on the Bump, I'm pretty much following the EASY method, though I'm not 100% sure as I've not read up on it.

So, when she wakes, she eats, then we do an "activity" (i.e. I read to her and/or sing to her and/or put her in her bouncy seat etc..), then when I see her eyes drooping or she yawns, I swaddle her and put her in her crib. Sometimes she falls asleep before or during our "activity" and I put her down already asleep.

As I said in an earlier thread, this works probably about 75% of the time.

vilaro · May 2011

SarahL77:
Based on what I've read here on the Bump, I'm pretty much following the EASY method, though I'm not 100% sure as I've not read up on it.

So, when she wakes, she eats, then we do an "activity" (i.e. I read to her and/or sing to her and/or put her in her bouncy seat etc..), then when I see her eyes drooping or she yawns, I swaddle her and put her in her crib. Sometimes she falls asleep before or during our "activity" and I put her down already asleep.

As I said in an earlier thread, this works probably about 75% of the time.

I'm following EASY right now too, although when I get to the "S" part, there's no way of doing it other than swing time, even though I know she's tired or even overtired. Boo. It's like her eye lids fly open the minute her head hits her bassinet.

Alicia_22 · May 2011

Maybe she doesn't like her bassinet anymore? We figured out that our LO hates her bassinet! She will sleep fine in the PNP but as soon as I put her in the bassinet, she wakes up instantly.

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