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we're
on day 4 of official nap refusal..... i want to cry lol. i MISS nap
time, for the potential nap it gave me, and just general "me" time!!!
seriously need nap help!
it's still going on........
we're
on day 4 of official nap refusal..... i want to cry lol. i MISS nap
time, for the potential nap it gave me, and just general "me" time!!!
please please tell me this is a phase! he's not even 2! naptime can't be gone forever, can it??
i've tried moving times between 11-2 and still nothing. i know he is tired bc at times i...
can practically rock him to sleep but as soon as i try to put him in
his bed, it's no go. and then other times he will fall asleep sitting
on the couch.... which honestly at this point, i don't care as long as
he naps, but he cannot take a nap at 5pm!!
someone tell me what to do!! lol
he has been teething big time... but this nap trouble has been going on for almost 3 weeks now. but now he is down right refusing naps.
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Re: seriously need nap help!
well i've tried CIO to an extent with this crap he's pulling, but since he's in a toddler bed it is WAY harder than it was when we did it at 11 mo LOL!
he ends up sobbing/slobbering so much that there's a wet spot at the door. :-/
i end up feeling awful for putting him through that and he ends up not napping anyway.
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I can't speak from experience, but I've read other mom's comments about their LOs sleeping great after swimming. Any chance you can go swimming or do something to REALLY wear your LO out?
GL - I hope this passes quickly!
Definitely harder when they're in a toddler bed but if he falls asleep on the floor it won't be the end of the world. He'll eventually figure out that staying in his bed to go to sleep is better than sleeping on the floor. When we moved DD#1 to her twin bed (we moved her at 17 mo.) she would get up and play at first or throw a fit at the door. At first, we'd go in and put her back in bed but after doing that 30x in one night we decided to let her fall asleep on the floor and then move her to her bed once a sleep. That worked great for bedtime (she stopped getting out of bed after about a month) but we couldn't move her at nap or she'd just wake up. So I'd go in and put a blanket over her. After about 1-2 mo., she finally decided that napping on the floor wasn't that much fun (much more fun when it's a slumber party or you're camping!) and now she doesn't get out of bed at all.
At this age, he knows you're going to come back in and get him if he throws a fit long enough.
well the problem now is that he's figured out how to open his door.... which is funny bc it's the ONLY door he can open even though they're all the same lol.
but we've got the door knob reversed so he couldn't lock us out of his room accidentally. but i guess the door knob is kind of funky now that we did that and even the lock doesn't work....... so i can't keep him in his room either! he came out 3x today. 1st time though he apparently had some mega diarrhea.. so that was actually a good thing, but then the other 2 times were practically back to back.
what was funny the last time though (before i gave up bc it'd been an hour of me trying) it took him a good 5 minutes to leave his doorway (all the while crying) then he very slowly made his way to me... like another 5 minutes he'd be a few feet closer, and a few more minutes he'd be a few feet closer.... but basically he rolled himself across the floor while crying until he was finally a few feet from me. the whole thing probably took a good 20min. lol. i was kind of amused by it, only bc he was being SO dramatic about the whole thing lol.
DD#1 has door handle locks so she never came out of her room (plus, this was before she knew how to open doors. Given he can come out out his room, I'm not sure what other advice to give at this point, except to just keep putting him back in his room "supernanny" style -- no talking, just take him back in.
DD#1 didn't really cry a lot at her door. A day or two here and there but mostly our issue was she would get out of bed to play.
When Keira went through her nap strike a few months before Callie was born I had to play with different times. I first tired to move her nap later by 30 mins. That was not enough. I ended up playing with the times, increasing the time by 5 or 10 minutes every day and finally hit the "magic time" by day 5 of trying--after a week of no naps. It was torture! I ended up bumping it to an hour later and now she can *usually* go down later if we are running late and be fine (knock on wood) but earlier is NEVER happening again. She was in a crib though...and still is.
We are about to move her to a bed and I'm terrified I will lose her nap. I plan on getting childproof doorknob covers to keep her in her room. And like PP said, try to leave him alone if he's not in danger of hurting himself. It's tough! Hang in there!
Also I like the parenting books by John Rosemond (he may not be your style) and he has a "ticket" system for coming in/out of the bedroom and also a very easy reward system (you don't follow the rules, you go to bed early or have something taken away).
I agree with the pool recommendation.
well i think swimming is a great idea, but there are seriously NO pools in my area. i live out in the middle of no where lol. but on the plus side, i do live 2 miles from the beach! but it's pretty difficult to take ds to the beach by myself and actually be able to stay a while bc i can't carry/hold his hand and carry a bag, umbrella and beach toys... but i might try it tomorrow, but it's going to be unbearably hot again, and the though of being outside, even if i'm at the beach doesn't sound pleasant to my very pregnant self lol.