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Need nap help

74dragonfly74dragonfly member
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DS naps are terrible. he will nap at most for 45 minutes twice a day. Not enough. then he is a crank pot in the afternoon. Bedtimes are good, takes about 45 minutes to get him down, we have a good routine. I have tried the same routine for naps. doesnt work. for nighttime I nurse and rock until he alseep then put him in crib. this doesnt seem to work for naps. 
He ends up passing out in the bouncer seat for naps. 
I need help. I cant do CIO at 5 months. 

any ideas?




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Re: Need nap help

  • KateVAKateVA member
    My second was similar at 5 months. We did extinction CIO for naps which is expressly what you said you don't want to do. I would just consider how much crying is happening during his afternoon fussiness. For us, CIO was less total crying than when he was overtired and cranky. If that makes sense...
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  • boston143boston143 member
    No ideas for you but will be watching this thread. We have the same problem. DS naps for at most 45 minutes, though sometimes 3-4 times per day. I know he needs more sleep because if someone is holding him he will sleep for a couple hours. He also gets fussy and tired after about 90 minutes of being awake so we go through these short sleep-nurse-awake-crying-sleep cycles over and over and over.
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  • 74dragonfly74dragonfly member
    KateVA said:

    My second was similar at 5 months. We did extinction CIO for naps which is expressly what you said you don't want to do. I would just consider how much crying is happening during his afternoon fussiness. For us, CIO was less total crying than when he was overtired and cranky. If that makes sense...

    This is an excellent point.





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    KateVA said:

    My second was similar at 5 months. We did extinction CIO for naps which is expressly what you said you don't want to do. I would just consider how much crying is happening during his afternoon fussiness. For us, CIO was less total crying than when he was overtired and cranky. If that makes sense...

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  • August & AfterAugust & After member
    We just went through this as well. We were getting 3-4 1 hour naps out of LO, which is good...however, often it was damn near impossible to get him to that sleepy point. So many tears. We did graduated extinction for bedtime a couple nights and it went incredibly well. So much less crying than if we were actively bouncing him or whatever we thought would calm him. I'm talking ten min of fussing versus 45 min of crying. I think he truly was at a point where he needed to be left alone to fall asleep. We had naps this weekend, and I thought it would be much worse doing those. Nope, same experience.

    True test is daycare today because there, he truly naps like your LO and then is cranky all day.
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  • lifesaverzlifesaverz member
    my LO has trouble getting past the 45 min mark (one sleep cycle) in a nap as well.  We've found that in the afternoon when she is the most tired, when she wakes after that 45 min as per usual, if I go in quickly I'm able to rock her back to sleep no problem, & she'll sleep for another 45-1 hr after that. Doing that is the only way we've been able to get in a longer nap, but she really needs it.  My rule of thumb is if she wakes up crying she hasn't slept long enough.  Usually if she is well rested she will wake up happy.

    The other thing is making sure you get LO down before he gets overtired.  I know with my LO if I start putting her to sleep right at the 2 hr mark of being awake then it's a little easier to get her down, but if I wait much longer it gets harder.  
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  • August & AfterAugust & After member
    Just curious, how old is LO that can make it 2 hrs? Mine is just 4 months today and we are at 1.5 hrs of awake time (max) before he gets punchy and the outward expressions of being tired happens. And this is a recent bump, used to be 1 hr max.

    And he only ever naps 1 hour.
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