Napping for 1 year olds

[carabassa]

Let's talk about naps.*


-How many naps a day? When/for how long?

-Where do they usually nap? (crib, pack 'n play, stroller, car...)

-Do you have a routine that you do before they nap? Or just plop them in the crib and peace out?





*As I sit here listening to my baby scream from her crib. :/

[tuscanlatte]

1 a day, around 1pm and for 1-2 hours

-crib

- no routine with her we just give her a sippy of water and walk away

It took a bit or sleep training to get there. We would leave her in her crib for the length of her nap whether she was sleeping or not and eventually she started to sleep.

[mommabakes]

We're still at 2 naps, 1 about 2 hours after he wakes up and the other shortly after lunch. Each is anywhere from 45 minutes to 2.5 hours. He naps in his crib, and I pretty much just plop him down in there.

[ampaints]

Bouncing between one and two. If it's two one is about 45 minutes and one is about an hour and a half. If it's one then it's about 2 hours. On one nap days it's about 12 that he goes to sleep, two nap days are anyone's guess.

Today is a two nap day

[RandomName]

We are at that awkward inbetween stage of 1 and 2 naps. If two, the first it at 9 am for 45 mins. Every other day he drops this one. The other nap is always 12-12:30 until 3.

[flippinchica]

+1 to awkwardly bouncing between one nap and 2. With 2 naps the early nap is 10:30-11:30ish and late nap ends up starting around 4 and pushing back bedtime. He only has one nap at daycare but sometimes falls asleep on the way home. One nap days usually 12-2 or so.

[ars093s]

2 to 3 naps a day. The first is 2 hours after she wakes up, and the next is 3 hours from the first nap wakeup. Depending on how early she gets up we sometimes squeeze a 3rd nap in.

She naps in the crib and each is 30 mins to an hour. She sometimes sleeps up to 2 hours at daycare, but never does that at home.

We read her a book and say bye bye to things in her room, then set her down in the crib. Sometimes she stands and cries and we go back in after 5-10 mins and lay her down and tell her to sleep. Sometimes we have to do this several times. Naps were easier when we used a pacifier!

[flippinchica]

Oh and at daycare he naps on a cot but on the weekends usually nurses to sleep and naps on me.

[Laverne]

If he naps before 11 it will be a two nap day. Naps last 45-90 minutes. We are still using swing on days that i cant take him for a walk. I wear him til he is asleep and put him in crib-this is still new.

[redandblue]

We are still two naps. First one seems to be the longer one lately, can be about 2 hours (usually 9/9:15), second one varies, but usually around 2, and can last 45 min to 1.5 hour. He generally wakes up at 6 am. He sleeps in his crib (and now a pnp at the childcare provider's house). He gets his soother, his lovey and I rock him for the duration of Twinkle Twinkle, then I lay him down. He has been able to put himself to sleep with this routine most days, but it has been a bit of a journey to get there. Had to do some sleep training a little while back to get him used to putting himself to sleep. If he does cry when I put him down, I will let him cry about 5-10 minutes (depending on the urgency of his cry), go in, pick him up, give soother and lovey (which usually have been throw from the crib in a fit of rage and that makes him cry longer) , sing twinkle twinkle again and lay him down.

[tmclawchick]

- 2 to 3 naps a day... her first one is no more than 2 hours after she first wakes up... then her 2nd one is around 1:30ish... if she takes a third it happens around 4:30 and is pretty short.

- she naps in her pack 'n play since we packed up the crib when we moved and DH is making her a floor bed

- I give her maybe 3 ounces of milk, hand her her lovey, turn on the white noise and bounce. Deuces, girl.

[noname]

Almost always 2, but if she sleeps late she'll just take 1. By sleeping late I mean she wakes up at her usual 5:15am then miraculously falls back asleep until after 6. This rarely happens. So her first nap is 3 hours after waking (8:45ish) and lasts 1.5 hours. Second nap is around 1:30 and lasts an hour.

She's napped in her crib since 5 months. Prior to that every single nap was in the ktan with me bouncing on the yoga ball.

I nurse her to sleep while rocking, but since my milk supply has tanked she sometimes isn't interested so if she's squirmy I'll just lay her down. She naps with the sound machine bc DD1 is loud and with her lovey.

@poppykisses I nursed DD1 to sleep until she was 20 months old and was really worried about putting her down after weaning. But it was NBD! I just rocked her then held her cradled in my arms similar to nursing and sang a song and laid her down. I'm hoping the transition goes as smoothly with DD2.

[aydee]

Two naps a day. The first one is mid-morning, around 10:30am, about 3 hours after she wakes up for the day. That nap lasts about 2 hours. The second one is mid-afternoon, around 2:45pm and lasts 1.5-2hrs.

Both naps happen in her crib.

Routine before the morning nap is to nurse, then bring her into her nursery, turn on her musical giraffe, give her blankie to her, kiss her and tell her I love her and to take a good nap. Then I put her in the crib and walk out of the room. Routine before the afternoon nap is similar minus the nursing because I'm at work and the nanny is with her.

We worked hard around 7 or 8 months to develop a nap routine. Once she got the hang of it, she's turned into a great sleeper.

[packmomma]

Two naps every 3 ish hours for about an hour and a half to 2 hours (so 3ish hours of napping).
It's usually in his crib but he'll fall asleep in the car and pnp.
He has a tag blanket and we use a noise machine. Other than that it's usually a quick song of "hush little baby its time for bed, mama's gonna kiss your sleepy head, and then she's gonna lay you in your bed, it's time to take a nap"
This song tells him to go to sleep and we do it in the car if he needs to nap and H does it as well.

[noname]

Sept 12, 2016 11:48:52 GMT -5 @poppykisses said:

noname yeah I'm mostly worried that my milk supply is going to disappear (at what point did yours decrease?) and she's not going to be ready to wean and be cranky about it. But I guess I can just keep letting her nurse even if nothing is really coming out...

When I was pregnant with DD2 I don't think it decreased until halfway through the second trimester. Honestly, I think it was a good thing for us. I really did not want to tandem nurse and DD1 LOVED to nurse. She would nurse 20 times a day if I let her, so I was really worried about weaning. I think my milk supply dropping helped with the weaning process. I nursed her until I was ~30 weeks pregnant I think.

This time I feel like it decreased sooner, like end of first tri maybe. DD2 also has more of a take it or leave it attitude about nursing. I'm sad that I won't be able to nurse her as long as I did DD1 (she'll only be 18 months old when DD3 is due and I nursed DD1 for 20 months) but I think it will be easy to wean her. She's already kind of starting on her own. I still offer to nurse before nap and bed but sometimes she just latches on for a few seconds. It's been a few weeks since I've noticed her nursing until letdown.

[gingerygirl]

Jack takes one nap at daycare for 1-2 hours. I'm not sure what their routine is for laying him down but on days when he's home, I usually just lay him down when he seems sleepy and he (usually) immediately passes out.

[zonagirl]

We just switched to one nap. I don't know if she was ready, but what was happening was she was taking her morning nap just fine about three hours after she woke up. But she was fighting/refusing her second nap so hard and then melting down by bedtime because she had been awake 7-8 hours. So I decided enough of that shit, and now she goes down for one nap around noon. She has handled staying awake until then really well and she goes down fine for it, but she only sleeps an hour-hr and a half in her crib and then she wakes up but still needs to sleep. So I have been rocking and nursing her for the second part of her nap. I'm hoping over time she will extend it to two hours.

[Laverne]

Sure enough i botched the transition from tula to crib, so he was awake for 45 minutes alone in crib while i ran around and did shit. He was quiet at least. He napped for an hour on the bus, but looked very tired by dinner.

[Deleted]

So weekdays vary from weekends.

My mom takes care of the kids weekday mornings before dropping off at DC and ds wakes around 7 and takes a nap by 830. She wakes him at 1010a to leave for dc. Then he naps again at 430p when he gets home and I wake him at 530p before bed at 730p.

Weekends, he's up between 7 and 8 and then takes a nap at 12p until 3p, and that's it.

All naps are in his crib and we have no nap routine, just diaper and put in crib.

[Laverne]

Sept 14, 2016 15:36:13 GMT -5 @betweenthelines said:

So weekdays vary from weekends.

My mom takes care of the kids weekday mornings before dropping off at DC and ds wakes around 7 and takes a nap by 830. She wakes him at 1010a to leave for dc. Then he naps again at 430p when he gets home and I wake him at 530p before bed at 730p.

Weekends, he's up between 7 and 8 and then takes a nap at 12p until 3p, and that's it.

All naps are in his crib and we have no nap routine, just diaper and put in crib.

Sweet

[trudytrudy]

I am trying to get down to just one long nap but it's a struggle. If we just have 1 nap she is really tired and grumpy in the evening but two naps are hard to fit in sometimes. She naps in her crib with a blanket usually for about 3 hours total per day whether it's 1 nap or two

[Laverne]

I am so jelly of these 2+ hour nappers, we are lucky if we can get N to stay down for 1 whole hour. Today was horrible. He went down finally at one, but we have to leave at two fml.

[ars093s]

Sept 20, 2016 19:39:05 GMT -5 Laverne said:

I am so jelly of these 2+ hour nappers, we are lucky if we can get N to stay down for 1 whole hour. Today was horrible. He went down finally at one, but we have to leave at two fml.

Jealous party +1. A's naps are almost exactly 45 mins each.

[amberlie]

1 nap/day. It's usually around 1-2p and lasts 2 -3 hours. I nurse her (even though I have little to no milk) and then unlatch, she rolls over & goes to sleep, I leave.