Weekend naps, or lack thereof!
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Weekend naps, or lack thereof!
| Sat, 01-21-2012 - 2:57pm |
For the past few months, Selin has been fighting her naps at home on the weekend. She naps beautifully at the sitter every day, for a good 1.5-2 hours, but no matter what I try at home, it's a struggle.
She will usually fall asleep while I'm nursing/rocking her, same routine we do at bedtime, but as soon as I put her in her crib, or sometimes 30 min or less later, she wakes up screaming.
I've tried putting her down at the exact same time as her naptime at the sitter, a little earlier, and a little later. I've tried making her room darker. I've tried tiring her out in the morning. Nothing seems to work.
My DH is working on the weekends as well lately so I'm often home alone with her for a good portion of the day. When she doesn't nap that means I don't get a break until my DH gets home, which sometimes isn't until late afternoon and by then I'm exhausted!
She has also pretty much stopped napping at my parents house but that one I'm not as concerned about.
Anyone else experienced this? Another mom I know with a DD just two months older than Selin said her daughter only naps about 5 days of the week so I'm wondering if this is just a normal progression? But then why would she continue to nap so well at the sitter? Help!
She will usually fall asleep while I'm nursing/rocking her, same routine we do at bedtime, but as soon as I put her in her crib, or sometimes 30 min or less later, she wakes up screaming.
I've tried putting her down at the exact same time as her naptime at the sitter, a little earlier, and a little later. I've tried making her room darker. I've tried tiring her out in the morning. Nothing seems to work.
My DH is working on the weekends as well lately so I'm often home alone with her for a good portion of the day. When she doesn't nap that means I don't get a break until my DH gets home, which sometimes isn't until late afternoon and by then I'm exhausted!
She has also pretty much stopped napping at my parents house but that one I'm not as concerned about.
Anyone else experienced this? Another mom I know with a DD just two months older than Selin said her daughter only naps about 5 days of the week so I'm wondering if this is just a normal progression? But then why would she continue to nap so well at the sitter? Help!
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Today I woke her at 7am (sometimes she'll sleep till 7:30 or 8am) but she still fought naptime. I tried bringing her in our bed but she was just goofing around and kept getting out of the bed. After about 20 min of this and me "pretending" to be asleep, I finally took her back to her crib. She cried at first but now it's quiet in there so I don't know if she's really sleeping or just laying there.
Erica - I would be totally fine with her just having quiet time but as I mentioned above, she won't lay with me in the bed. She gets her antsiness from my DH. ;-)
Ella - How is Eliza doing with naps at the co-op?
I am grateful Selin naps so well at the sitter at least and now I know why because I have to wake her around 6am during the week. It would be really bad if she just stopped napping altogether. :-/
Some days she still refuses to nap - or, like today, only naps for like 40 minutes - and then goes to bed on the earlier side... so maybe she's transitioning out of a nap and not needing one every day anymore? I don't know.
But I totally feel you with not getting a break until DH gets home - DH was gone all day today (still is) and by the time bedtime rolled around I was so done!! And I sort of suck at doing bedtime by myself - I actually forgot to brush her teeth tonight! Haha, what an awesome mom, lol ;)
David Nicholas 12/5/09
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