January 18, 2012
The nap strike
I never really realized how clockwork-like my sweet boy's daily schedule was, until it became no longer clockwork-like. Since about 3 months old, he has taken naps at 8:30am and 12:00pm for about an hour and a half each EVERY day. Well... that is all changing and making for one tired mama! Starting last week, he went 6 (six!) days with zero (zip, none, nada!) naps...wow! He then, of course, took great naps over the weekend when daddy was home for reinforcement and began the strike all over again on Monday, ahh!! In 3 days, he has had a whopping total of 2 hours worth of naps (combined, mind you). If anyone has any successful nap advice, send it my way! Until then, it's a good thing you're cute Porter Graham :)
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Will had a phase like that...he never made it six straight days, though. That's a bummer! He just went through this time when he would only sleep for about 15 minutes. I just started leaving him up there. I would let him cry for 15 min and then go in and console him and do it all over again. He's been a great napper ever since. (Took until about 13 months old)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Heather! I guess I need to get a little tougher. I let him cry for 15-20 minutes, but he's so stubborn that he just gets madder and madder but doesn't fall asleep. I'll keep working on it though :)
ReplyDeleteIt is sooo hard to hear them cry. I would try to go somewhere in the house where I could barely hear it, so I wasn't tortured. When he finally did nap, he was so much happier.
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