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Why are naps easier than bedtime?

RosebeanRosebean member
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DD has me thrown for a loop... All day yesterday, she napped in her zipadeezip and I was able to put her in her bassinet each time she fell asleep with absolute ease. As is most nap times. But each night, zipadeezipped or swaddled, without fail, it takes me a minimum of 2 hours to put her down. This is accumulative because she will take an hour to put down the first time, wakes up after 30 minutes, then I am back in the room nursing her to sleep again. Any suggestions on how to get her down as easy as she does for naps? Naps will take 10 minutes tops to get her to sleep and down. I seriously don't get it.
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Re: Why are naps easier than bedtime?

  • jamjoyfuljamjoyful member
    My LO is the exact same way. 2 hours for bedtime and about 5-10 minutes for a nap. Honestly, I think the soft daylight and noise of my toddler soothes her during the day. Who knows what she's thinking though!
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  • SoSayWeAllSoSayWeAll member
    We are opposite too. Any chance she is overtired at bedtime? Maybe you could try putting her down earlier?
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  • leanneriversleannerivers member
    Yeah, I would say try putting her to bed earlier. Mine is opposite too! Naps are harder :/
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  • IvyMagic828IvyMagic828 member
    I went through this recently, where he fought bedtime hardcore for about a week.  The past couple nights have been much better, and I haven't really done anything differently.  Honestly I think he's just becoming a lot more interested in the world.. and somehow he knows it's bedtime vs just a shorter nap and he doesn't want to end the day, haha.  He's also been a lot more distracted while nursing lately.  If he's not starving, he'll keep popping off the boob to look and smile at me.  He'll be 14 weeks on Monday.
     
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  • JenrileysmomJenrileysmom member
    My baby barely naps at all, he falls asleep frequently through the day but doesn't stay asleep for long. So I don't know what an easy nap time is. He does go down pretty easy at night around 8 and gives me a solid 6-7 hours before he wants a bottle and then goes back down for another 3-4 hours. 
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  • NLewis1NLewis1 member
    Jenrileysmom said:

    My baby barely naps at all, he falls asleep frequently through the day but doesn't stay asleep for long. So I don't know what an easy nap time is. He does go down pretty easy at night around 8 and gives me a solid 6-7 hours before he wants a bottle and then goes back down for another 3-4 hours. 

    This is us as well. The whole "sleep begets sleep" thing isn't true in our house! If he's having an exceptionally awake day, he still sleeps pretty good at night. But he also sleeps well if he has a good nap day.
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  • RosebeanRosebean member
    SoSayWeAll said:
    We are opposite too. Any chance she is overtired at bedtime? Maybe you could try putting her down earlier?

    I try. She wakes up the second I put her down... And I try to get her brother into bed before her because he is so easy to put down (product of sleep training). If I am home alone with them when it's bedtime and H is working, then he has to go down before her. Her bedtime right now starts between 7:30-8
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  • RachelB104RachelB104 member
    I rock LO to sleep and every time I put him down in the pnp his legs start kicking and then his arms start moving. Takes a good 1.5-2 hours of picking him back up and rocking to sleep and trying again. If I put him down at all awake the legs start going then arms then fussing and then crying. I put him in his glider for naps and that always goes much better.
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  • mikrinikkimikrinikki member
    We are having the same troubles....I am followimg this thread...
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  • herecomesthesunherecomesthesun member
    We rock to drowsy and place him in his RNP and he might fuss but within 5 minutes, he is out. It's not red-faced crying, it seems he is letting off steam.

    H panics when he wakes and fuss-cries when we put him down. It is hard to listen to but he is putting himself to sleep and it's less and less time each night.
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