NIGHTMARE NAPS

If she is not screaming for me I just ignore Lucy when she plays and tumbles around during her nap. She almost always eventually goes to sleep, if not I leave her in the crib the time she would have been napping anyhow.

I gave up and just let it go, it doesn't matter to me any more if she is laying down or not.......

We are struggling a little with naps..... I've taken the same attitude as DM..... as long as he's not screaming.... I leave him the length of a regular nap. I can't spend two hours a day trying to convince him to take a nap. For instance, it's nap time right now but he wouldn't go to sleep when I laid him down and he has cried out periodically for a minute or two for the last hour but I'm just leaving him in there! Momma needs a break!!!!

Good for you!!!!!!
We all want is best for our babies but we still have to take care of ourselves!

Tiff,
I will try with Audrey, if she doesn't nap for 30 minutes, then I'm usually up there getting her. That 30 minutes at least gives me "ME" time and/or cleaning time. Audrey's been napping really good lately, except yesterday DF got home with the new couch while she was napping, so she woke up after not even an hour of napping and didn't go back down until bedtime. Audrey was down to 1 nap a day for months and now she's been getting 3-4 hours a day....but I think it's due to teething...

I hate weekends and things like presidents day lol or even just familiy members being around during nap time. No matter how hard I try to keep Lucy on her nap schedule, somebody slams a door and yells ''Mom''! and wakes her up after usually 15 minutes or so then she refuses to go b ack to sleep and gets owlie. Grrr. I don't know what I am going to do during spring break (also known as 2 1/2 weeks of hell for mom).

Hey Kyrah also still has two sleeps a day usually 1 1/2 - 2 hours
I also put her in her cot after her bottle and leave her, she will put herself to sleep within half hour nearly every time, sometimes she plays for a bit and if she really whinges i go in give her dummy lay her down and pat her a few times and she is usually happy with that.
In the evenings after she is asleep i put a couple of safe toys in her cot and she plays for about 1/2 hour in the morning when she wakes before she cries to let us know she is up.
She is ALWAYS standing up, she even tries to climb out of her cot now, she has been for months.
She is so full on and uses so much energy when she is awake i think she tires herself out and sleeps so well daytime and night time, i am very lucky.
She usually sleeps around 8.30 am and about 1-1.30pm

good luck xoxo
I wonder when they will start cutting out their second sleep i love her having two, in the morning i get ready for the day and clean the house etc and the arvo i usually fold the washing, do things i need to do and chill out

I don't put Jayden on a schedule, just because our crazy busy lives can't handle too much structure. But, her internal clock is somewhat on a schedule. Normally, she goes down for her morning/afternoon at like 11-1(somewhere in there). It just depends on what time she wakes up in the morning. Today she woke up at like 8:30. By 10:30 I couldn't take it anymore. She kept whining and snatching the couch pillow and sucking her thumb, and whining. She also gets into alot more trouble when she's sleepy. So, I put her in her bed with a cup of juice(very bad, I know), her baby bible, and a stuffed animal, and told her to do whatever she wanted to, but she was definitely staying in there for a while. She whined for like 3 minutes, then fell asleep, and is still sleeping. She ate good before napping(a cup of apple jacks, two slices of bacon, some fried egg, a cup of milk, and then the cup of orange juice), so she might sleep until almost 1, but dad just woke up, and he is loud as hell, so who knows! She may or may not take a second nap today, it just depends on what her body tells her. I kind of like when she doesn't take the second nap, cause she doesn't give a token resistance when we put her down at night that way.

OWEN IS DRIVING ME NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All week he has been doing poorly at nap time. At the beginning of the week he wouldn't go to sleep but he was fairly quiet in the bed so I left him and he finally fell asleep on his own..... but Wed/Thurs/Today....... HE WILL NOT NAP!!!!! For naps I HAVE to put him down asleep or he usually wont go to sleep and this has worked just fine for months but now as soon as I lay him down he wakes up and stands up and SCREAMS on the top of his lungs.

THEN - He did it last night too! We haven't had problems at night since he turned 6 months. Last night he woke from 11:30 -12:30 and then he was AWAKE SCREAMING from 4:30 - 6:30. Finally at 6:30 we got up for the day. He hasn't slept since and he's clearly exhausted! I'm exhausted too!

You guys, I can not handle him going back to the way things once were..... I think I'll lose my mind.

What the hell is going on?!

Lou,I hear ya,what IS going on? Tia-li used to sleep pretty much through,almost from the start,I 've been posting her waking hours in the sleep support thread.Don't know WHAT it is really?

Grrrrrh! It's so frustrating! I don't what to do anymore and I feel like I can't even give good recommendations either!!!

At least we know we are alone in this!!!!

Thanks for the support, ladies.
It really does help a lot.
He slept all night last night.... THANK GOD!!!!
So I'm just praying that our naps are better today too!

OMG,Tia-li sleot all night last night too!I was stunned.Furday bnight she did better only waking twice,but last night,I put her down at 8pm,she woke once about 11:30 and then next thing I knew,it was 7am!!!I woke up and panicked of course but she was peacfully sleeping in her room.I hope it lasts!Course we're moving soon,I know that wil trhow it all out of whack,but not for too long!

hey everyone,sorry no tie for personals,in between packing anf getting kicked off the internet connection,it's not east to get on here.Firstly,Tia-li's sleeping through the night was short lived.LAst night we were back to her waking every 2-3 hours (yawn) and I know she is teething,she has been crying and fussing like made,red cheeks and I just saw one of her top teeth has poked through,so thats 3 on the bottom and 3 on the top but she wasbiting on the opposite side so maybe it's yet another one? Either way,poor little girl has got so many teeth in such a short time,maybe thats why she's fussy,cant wait for this teething lark to be over thats all I can say!

Holi..... are y'all getting any sleep?

Owen slept great last night. (Still no new teeth!)
But our naps today...........sigh................. I'm trying something new so I didn't expect great results. I normally put him to bed for naps already asleep but it's not working anymore. So, I did our bedtime routine and laid him down awake. He cried for about 10 minutes and then slept for 30 minutes.
For our second nap I did the bedtime routine and laid him down and he cried for 30 minutes, I went in and patted him for a few minutes and then he finally fell asleep. He's been asleep for about 30 minutes. I hope he will sleep a good long while. This time last week he was napping a total of four hours and now we are napping 30 minutes to 1 hour all day! He's clearly exhausted!!!!

Hope you are having better results!!!

hey lou,

no still the same in my camp.T-li has been waking sort of in a pattern,put her down at 7:30-8pm she wakes at 10:30-1:30:3:30/4:30 and 5:30 then 7-7:30 for the day...TIRED! LOL But I am pretty much used to it,you would think that I would be exausted and unable to function,I think it is true what they say,youcan train yourself to get by with less sleep than before.Anyway...I am doing ok,of course it would be lovely to get a full nights sleep,8 hours in a row but as it is.I am greatful I don't have a full time job other than taking care of her,Teo and moving house LOL it's all good.Glad O is being a bit better for you! xx