I think I created a monster with my LOs naps...she is almost three months old and we start daycare in two weeks. She has been STTN since about six weeks and honestly I never cared much about her nap schedule because she just slept wherever - carseat, stroller, bouncy, whatever we were doing that day. Our daycare provider will have her napping in a pack n play. She is swaddled at night which is why she sleeps so well. Our daycare provider would prefer not to swaddle her because she feels it's just continuing a habit we will eventually need to break. I sort of agree, but I also am not sure DD is ready to lose the swaddle. So this week I started to try to nap DD in her crib on a schedule to mimic what she will be doing in daycare, without her swaddle. She flails her arms and can't fall asleep. After 15 minutes, I get her down and she only sleeps for an hour max. She wakes herself up and is still exhausted because she is not getting a good nap. Any suggestions? When did your LO get on a good nap schedule? Should I push our daycare provider to keep swaddling her for naps? If we do that I feel like I'm just prolonging the inevitable.
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I'm surprised your DCP is trying to get you to wean. Two months is pretty early to start trying to do that, IMO (and obviously if baby is still flailing arms, they're not quite ready yet). Tell them that that's what works for your child, and you don't want an overtired baby when you get home.
We really got on a great nap schedule when we transitioned DD to the crib (4 months). She naps for 2 hours in the morning (we put her down no later than 2 hours after she's woken up for the day) and roughly 2 hours in the afternoon (put down around 1 or 2pm).
I would think if you wanted her swaddled then they should swaddle her. Our LO is 4 months today and last night was the first night he slept without both arms swaddled (yay!). BUT he has been sleeping without arms swaddled for naps for a couple weeks now. We started with one arm out (mainly due to the fact that he started sleeping on his tummy). So we have taken baby steps to unswaddling - first one arm out, then both arms out for naps only and now finally bedtime (all while reswaddling if he just wasn't going to back to sleep). I think it's important for baby to get long comfy naps!
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