Baby nap question

[creepyeyeball]

I feel like I need a special snowflake option. I don't really put him down for naps. He just hangs out with me either in a carrier or in his bouncy seat and he will eventually fall asleep, so if he's in the bouncy I move him to the family room where it is quiet. If he falls asleep in the carrier I move him to the bouncy or RNP. He will arouse during the transfer, but usually fall back asleep. He is currently nursing and is falling out, so when we're done I'll put himin the RNP and he'll sleep a while.

His sleep usually lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours, but there is no pattern or routine. He just sort of falls out when and where he wants to, whether out running errands in a carrier, in a bouncy outside while I garden or in my arms while I play on my phone.

Predictable nap schedules don't typically start for us until baby is older and even then, this time the baby is along for the ride. I'm too busy to fight at getting him down in the crib for set times. He'll have to sleep when and where he can

[creepyeyeball]

heartbot what you are describing is normal. She has grandma amnesia and is mixing up all of babyhood into one memory. It changes so much at every new stage.

[numbersgirl08]

K is probably the exception. She goes down fairly easily for pretty much all naps. The last map of the day is the hit or miss one, sometimes I rock her to get s catnap in to tide her over til bedtime. It's phases tho - she has weeks where she fights it more. She just happens to be in an easier phase now. DD1 was not like this at all. She didn't start taking consistent naps until around 4 mos.

[craftcrazymama]

With DD I worried about this so much. I stressed myself out trying to get her to sleep and keep her asleep for the times all the 'experts' and well meaning friends and family said she should be. I drove myself crazy with it and yet she still just did what she wanted. Sometimes she fought naps like mad and wouldn't sleep for any amount of coercion, sometimes she napped like a champ. My input didn't seem to make a lot of difference at all.

With this one I'm going totally with the flow. LO sleeps where he sleeps, when he sleeps (except for night time - that's his own bed time).

He sleeps on me, in his bouncer, on his floor mat, in his bed, in the car or carrier, wherever. I'm not fussy as long as he gets a bit of sleep. Sometimes it's short, sometimes it long.

I set my mind that I wasn't going to let myself get all in a tizz over sleep this time around. Do I want more? Definitely. Do I find it frustrating when he isn't asleep longer or has long wake periods? Sometimes (as you'll see on this board). But unless/until he's showing signs of suffering from not enough sleep I'm just doing it casual this time and saving ourselves both a lot of stress.

I'll add that DD figured her naps out all by herself and soon napped regularly for good long stretches at predictable times, 99.9% of the time. She made it happen, not me.

[jags8]

DS has to be swaddled, otherwise he will startle himself awake upon transfer. I put him in this Swaddle Me, nursed him, and he fell asleep in my arms for over an hour. Then the kiddos started waking up, so I put him in this rocker so I could give the big kids a snack. He has now been sleeping in the rocker for 40 minutes.

*poof*

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Jun 21, 2016 9:25:57 GMT -5 heartbot said:

I do doubt her memory. 

Good. Doubt those memories because I don't think there has ever been a baby that didn't fight them at least sometimes.

LO is easy. I can put her down awake and sometimes she'll fight it and it'll take ~15 minutes of giving her the paci a couple times before she settles. DD1 never napped unless she was in the Ergo, it was insanity. Her eyes would shoot open and she would just start screaming her head off when she realized she was laying down, I think she was a bit colicky though now that I look back in comparison to LO.

ETA her naps range between about 30 minutes - 2 hours. The shorter ones are usually in the Ergo.

Also, thinking about it now my mom was sort of shocked by DD1. My MIL (had 4 kids) though told me that her first two kids were great, super easy and then her younger two came along and both were really tough when it came to sleep. 

[okiemama]

My MIL swears up and down her boys were potty trained before they turned 1...I call grandma amnesia. I believe they may have potty trained early, or easily, but not before 1, c'mon.

Not the point of this thread, but that has always bugged me haha.

[craftcrazymama]

Jun 22, 2016 8:28:12 GMT -5 graybaby said:

Jun 21, 2016 23:32:43 GMT -5 okiemama said:

My MIL swears up and down her boys were potty trained before they turned 1...I call grandma amnesia. I believe they may have potty trained early, or easily, but not before 1, c'mon.

Not the point of this thread, but that has always bugged me haha.

My MIL claims all 4 of her kids STTN by 6 weeks. That is BS.

If that's true, can she come sort my kid out!

[minae01]

No reliable nap schedule here, either. Everyday is different. Sometimes we get a long nap, sometimes, we barely nap at all. Eventually it'll sort itself out into two distinct naps.

[Courtniko]

Jun 22, 2016 8:23:30 GMT -5 heartbot said:

Jun 21, 2016 23:32:43 GMT -5 okiemama said:

My MIL swears up and down her boys were potty trained before they turned 1...I call grandma amnesia. I believe they may have potty trained early, or easily, but not before 1, c'mon.

Not the point of this thread, but that has always bugged me haha.

Both my mom and MIL swear all 4 kids between them were daytime potty trained by 18 months. 

My MIL is so proud, always saying all 3 of hers were potty trained by 14 months. I believe she may have trained herself to hold them over the potty every 15 minutes, but I do not believe for a second that any of them were potty trained at 14 months.
I also love that all 3 of her kids hit every single milestone at the exact same age.

[Courtniko]

I still mostly hold DS for naps. The swing or wearing him works sometimes, and every so often the RNP works, but he normally wakes up the second I put him down.

[xxkimmy8xx]

Do you guys still rock LO to sleep and then put them down?

[rubykitten]

Baby still falls asleep for naps on me. I know I probably shouldn't get in the habit of doing that, but I don't want to give up the cuddle time with her. At night she eats quickly and i put her back in the RnP right away. She doesn't even really wake up.

[xxkimmy8xx]

Tried putting E down awake, but it never ends well. Usually hysterical crying, haha. He's 12.5 weeks, so I know I need to keep trying or the quickly approaching 4 month regression will be even more awful.

[xxkimmy8xx]

Jun 26, 2016 18:03:25 GMT -5 buttercup said:

I can put him down at night and he falls asleep. He will go back down motn. He has a wakeful period in the morning sometimes. I usually nurse him laying down and let him sleep where he is. I usually have to hold him in the afternoon. I have tried to get him to sleep in his crib with some success. I haven't pushed it because i didn't want to be captive at my house and enjoyed the cuddles.
I worried about D's naps. Daycare had her napping in a crib for long times the first week.

I have heard that daycare is like magic! It better be for the ridiculous amount of money I'll be paying them come August.

[numbersgirl08]

I put her down awake for naps. Never could do that for DD1 tho, this LO is just easier about naps in general.

DD1 def had a 4 mo regression and it was awful. I'm hoping to avoid it this time since DD2 is already going to sleep for naps and bedtime from being put down awake. She has better sleep habits overall.

[MissMusic]

I was/am a Nap Nazi, especially with my 1st kid.

My baby seems to want to take the best naps around 10:30am and 2:00pm. I make my best effort to be home, have him in the crib, and the house quiet.

Its not really working. Its getting better but holy christ in a canoe, you've been up for 5 hrs and its time to SLEEP!

[ashlee]

S has been fighting naps and sleep hard since the weekend. We decided to try a different swaddle technique to keep him from busting out once we get him to sleep but I think that's just contributing to the problem.