Protecting naps

danuli8 · August 2013

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Here's a fun one: What is the most extreme thing you have done to make sure your LO can nap undisturbed?
I went a little insane last week when the mail carrier brought our mail...we have a metal box attached directly to the house, and my dogs have been barking for years and years when the flap is opened and the mail is dropped in. We were all asleep (including mama!) when the mail came, the dogs barked, and everyone woke up. I was so pissed that I went to the PO and filled out one of those vacation cards to stop delivery, and then over the weekend I put in a new plastic mailbox on a pole in the front garden bed instead. I still haven't made it back to the PO to restart delivery yet.

tondraluv · August 2013

This is embarrassing but I was struggling for two hours to get LO down. Finally when I did I realized I really had to pee but our door makes noise when you open it. I ended up peeing in a 7-11 cup DH had on his dresser. I was so desperate

ClandestineX · August 2013

Honestly, the most extreme thing I have done is ask people to just not yell and turn down the tv a bit. I am a believer of not making it totally quiet because they will need it to be totally quiet to go to sleep from thereafter. I have tried to put him to sleep in a dark quiet room and it still has the same results.. he will sleep for less than 45 minutes either way. He used to sleep through loud movies and stuff and he can still sleep through tv sounds, but do not let anyone in person talk loud.

chellebell82 · August 2013

I honestly do nothing. The day we brought him home from the hospital we had a number of fire trucks and ambulance's go past our house with there sirens on right after I put him in his crib, he slept through it. We have gone to several parties (for children that were just baptized at our church) were loud music was playing he slept through many of them. I actually have people that see that he is asleep or trying to sleep and apologize for being loud (which their not) and try to keep other's that around to also be quiet. My response has been that it's fine they don't have to whisper. I guess I'm lucky my LO sleeps through just about anything.

JanessLynn · August 2013

My husband and I order a lot of stuff from Amazon and eBay, so FedEx and UPS are always making our dogs go crazy when they knock or ring the bell. I guess it's not "extreme", but I found a sign at Christmas Tree Shops that says, "Shhhh baby sleeping!" and it's stuck in the dead center of the storm door. It stays up and I don't take it down when he's awake either!

kgs0505 · August 2013

I don't attempt to keep things quiet. I don't want to have kids that have to have total quiet to sleep. Mine pretty much sleep through most stuff. Granted, I don't have dogs, but every house around us does. And our yards are all tiny.

pinottoparenthood · August 2013

I usually have to get up and pee at 5 am, and occasionally LO will wake up at that time... He seems to sleep pretty lightly in the morning. Sooo I just don't flush the toilet after my 5 am pee haha.

Lhyacinth888 · August 2013

My DD naps in the swing sometimes and as soon as the music or sound goes off she wakes up. So I have to run to the swing the second the music stops and hit the reset button. Fun times! Sometimes I do this for over an hour.

Mandmeesh · August 2013

We generally don't keep things quiet for M to sleep, but loud, sudden noises wake him up (obviously

) I think the most we've done to help M continue to nap nicely is to get our barky bulldog outside. She seems to always want to play and rough house as soon as M's sound asleep.

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