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Tips for taking good naps?

stemms8810stemms8810 member
in May 2012 Moms
You would think I would remember this from my DD but it's been so long.  Is anyone doing scheduled naps yet?  What does your nap routine during the day look like?  LO has a great night time routine and sleeps wonderfully at night but daytime naps seem to be hit or miss and I would like to help him get on a schedule with them and sleep longer than 30-45mins.  Thanks!
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Re: Tips for taking good naps?

  • PotomacStPotomacSt member


    I still use the white noise machine in the background for every nap.  I'm not sure if that helps or if I just got lucky, but my daughter is an all-around great sleeper (knock on wood!) and will usually nap 3x a day, with two of them lasting around 2 hours.

    I have a portable white noise machine too ($10 at Target) that goes everywhere with us. If we're at someone's house, I'll turn it on and rock her to sleep in the carseat and she's good to go :)

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    My first thought was lojng nap for baby or mommy?

    sigh.  my good sleeper wasn't such a good sleeper last night...sooo tired...




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  • angelfire02angelfire02 member

    I have started to be more consistant with the babies' naps in the past week or two.  In the morning they wake up and eat around 7-730.  They are up until 8-830 then go back down.  I wake them at 10 if they are not up, they eat, go back down around 11.  Sleep until sometime between 12 and 1.  Eat at 1, back down around 130-2, sleep until about 4.  Then catnap until they go to bed around 730.

    So they sleep like this:

    800ish - 1000ish

    1100ish - 100ish

    200ish - 400ish

    Catnap.  Somedays their naps are much shorter, like 45 minutes but I try to go back in and put their nuks in unless they are totally wide eyed.  I have also stopped napping them anywhere but their own cribs when we are at home, in their sleep sacs, with their nuks and lovies in their cribs.  I also run a fan and a sound machine. 

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  • angelfire02angelfire02 member
    I also meant to add that could it be that your LO is not 'awake' after 30-45 minutes but just going through the sleep cycle?  There have been many times when I go in there and get them up after 45ish minutes, only to find out 10 minutes later that they are still exhausted.  So maybe try not getting him up right away, see if he will either go back to sleep on his own, or if you go in and rub his belly, or give him back his nuk or something like that.  Just a thought.... :)
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  • stemms8810stemms8810 member

    Thanks!

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  • michellepeanutmichellepeanut member

    We have a schedule but Bella only sleeps for about 45min to an hour at a time during the day and then she wants to play.

    8:45 - up for the day

    10:15-11:15 - nap 

    1:00-2:00 - nap (this one sometimes goes longer)

    3:30-4:00 - short nap

    5:00-5:30 - another short nap (this one is new because she was getting really fussy at bedtime and this has made her much happier)

    6:30 - bedtime routine 

    9:00 - out for the night

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  • SovelloSovello member

    Oh lord, DD is near impossible to get to sleep/nap and when she gets tired she goes into full nuclear meltdown mode. I schedule her naps (only way to prevent...well, try to prevent) the meltdowns. She naps (usually) three times a day with a catnap. We're following the Baby Whisperer E.A.S.Y (Easy? LOL!!) schedule. It's wake at 7 (or 6 or 8) and nap 1.5 hours later, for 1.5 hours (ideally, rarely goes down that way) till 5 when there's a 40 minute catnap (usually she takes 20) then bed at 7.30-8.

     

    To get her ready I spend about half an hour winding her down, talking quietly to her instead of excited play, until I don't talk any more and just touch, then I swaddle her, turn on the white noise and nurse+rock her to sleep. Bad habits I know but the alternative is worse :)

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