QOTD - Naps - 12.10.15

LeeAndra

LeeAndra

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My 19mo is shorting me on naps, and I'm not happy abt it. He's taking forever to go down for them and not sleeping very long when he does actually go to sleep. Me no likey.

How did your kids do with naps? Any tried and true nap-taking techniques? Any funny nap stories?

Don't scare me by telling me your children stopped taking naps at 19 months or I might curl up into a ball and scream.

Maybe I'll just trade him places and start taking his nap for him. :p
 
I won't scare you by telling you my kids stopped with naps at 19 months, or even 20 months.... all three of mine stopped before 12 months. :eek: It wasn't a bad thing though, they were never the cranky type or the type to get into things they shouldn't, so I didn't mind. I also kept them up until I was ready for bed... then we all slept through the night (which they were all doing by 6 months)....the ONLY times they did nap was during a growth spurt....... So yea, I guess I'm no help at all cause I am one of those parents that all other parents despise cause I really did have it easy... x3.
 
I thought this was going to be about grown-up naps. I just took one, lol! It's been so long, I can't even remember when mine stopped napping. I think I still made them take a quiet time for awhile. A video or reading after lunch of something.
 
^^^ what she said... I thought this was going to be about mommy naps... haha - which I'm totally in favor of and just did... ;)

Kiddo stopped nap time many moons ago - I can get him to do quiet time if he isn't feeling well... or force him to lie down by me.
 
LOL - I thought it was about adult naps too! I've had to take a 20-minute power nap almost every day this week due to working 12 hour days and Cheyanne's basketball games - she had an out of town game 2 nights ago and I had to pick her up at the school at 11 pm - I get up at 4 am, so not cool!

I can't remember my son's napping routine at all - way to long ago (he's 28). I do know that Cheyanne started sleeping through the night at 4 months and napped once a day until she was about 2 years old. After that if she napped she'd be up until midnight, seriously. So if I allowed her to take a nap it was never for more than 20 minutes or else I'd pay for it by being awake until midnight. Even at preschool I can remember telling the teacher/aides to never let her sleep more than 20 minutes and believe me, I could tell if they let her sleep longer because she'd be bouncing off the walls at 11 pm :mad:
 
My son was a big time napper... oh was I spoiled and didn't even realize it. He would nap twice a day for a long time... I can't remember when he went to just an afternoon nap but I think it was around 2.5? Even at 5 years old he was taking an afternoon nap at least 3x a week. My daughter never really was a fan of naps after 18 months, but I was adamant that she quietly rest, so I continued to put her down for one in the afternoon until she was about 3 (when Ben stopped napping). I didn't care if she actually slept, but we all needed a quiet time. My son would fall asleep and she would usually just get out of bed 3 or 4 times and look at books, quietly play, etc. After 4, she never napped again. She hardly sleeps when she is sick, on a long road trip, or in an airplane either. She's like me.
 
My Nicholas took 2-4 hour naps everyday until he started kindergarten. To balance that, it was an impossible, stressful, dread for hours before hand ordeal to get him down for that nap until he was 2. He also had a rough time in kindergarten because he still wanted to nap in the afternoons.
 
lovely1m said:
My Nicholas took 2-4 hour naps everyday until he started kindergarten. To balance that, it was an impossible, stressful, dread for hours before hand ordeal to get him down for that nap until he was 2. He also had a rough time in kindergarten because he still wanted to nap in the afternoons.
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There are always battles I think when they hit some sort of developmental milestone, Ben did this and I pushed through because I knew he still needed the nap. With Grace I just didn't have the time or ability to devote because she was a second child. If I had a third he/she probably wouldn't nap at all. Haha
 
Caitrin napped until she started preschool, or there abouts. She went to preschool from 12:30 - 3:30 and we were on a schedule that often had us sleeping until 11:00 or so. She wasn't napping at that point. She never consistently napped. She'd nap for a week and then not the next week. She was so easy going that we didn't really care. She slept when she was tired and played when she wasn't. Declan... oh my, he was so different. He NEEDED naps. He took one pretty much every day until he was about 3. Once he hit 2 it was harder and harder to get him down. Thing was though, he really did need them so I would lay down with him. I'd cuddle him up (sometimes holding him really tight to keep him still) and pretend I was asleep. He'd fall asleep pretty quickly that way. Then again, in pretending to sleep, I pretty much always did fall asleep. I needed naps back then too, I was really anemic and exhausted.

As for adult naps... I still take them at least once a week. I love naps! I could take one daily and be a happy camper. Just in the past year though, I've noticed that when I nap I have a harder time falling asleep at night. I try not to nap except for Saturday afternoon (if we aren't doing anything) so I don't mess with my sleep schedule too much. There are days I come home from work, sit down and crash. I wake up 20 or 30 minutes later not having realized I fell asleep. LOL
 
My son was never a great sleeper, and when he stopped settling down for naps I would lay down with him and play games on my phone, and it'd put him right to sleep. Then I was stuck for awhile, but he really needed the sleep. ;) Once he didn't need the sleep as much, he was also a little older (still not 3...and he did stop taking naps when he was 2), we found some great books that kept him laughing, like search and find books like Where's Waldo (although I don't think we've actually used a Waldo one), or like the Richard Scarry Things that Go book.

Also, around 2 he started fighting his crib, so changing him to his big boy bed did the trick. For whatever reason he felt stifled in there. But that's also when we had to start doing naps together. It's hard. Sorry! But, once in awhile he reminds me of when he used to snuggle me for nap time and asks for it because he loves Mama snuggles...and he's 6 now. <3
 
I figured a post abt mommy naps would all say the same thing:

Yup. Love 'em. Need more of 'em. :D
 
My son still naps, he's 3.5 right now. I force him to nap every day, because, when he doesn't, I can see the difference, he becomes intentionally mischievous and really trying me and my patience. So, even if it's just for 20 minutes, I tell him he has to nap. So far he's doing more naps than no-nap days.
Sure, he is at the stage where he asks 'WHY?' all the time, but, mommy says so, so do so :p
 
I regularly tell Ryan that one day he'll be and adult and wish it was acceptable to nap in the middle of the day. :D

Ryan's always been a good night sleeper but never a good napper. I never understood why people claimed babies slept all day because he didn't. At 18 months, he's now down to one nap which is awesome on the days he takes a 3 hour nap and sucky when he sleeps for like an hour like he's been doing the last week and a half. :/

My other napping pet peeve is the assumption that all babies will nap on the go. He hasn't done that since he was 4 months old - as soon as he started noticing there were people around and things to look at, that was the end of that, haha. Doesn't matter how tired he is, he won't sleep in a carrier or a stroller. The only place he'll sleep is in the carseat on the freeway as long as you don't hit any traffic. I logged a lot of miles in my car driving Ryan around the loops of Houston so he'd nap (thank god for the first season of Serial! LOL!)
 
My first son napped until he started school then they had a thirty minute rest. He didn't sleep well at night EVER. He woke up every three hours until he was two! So he needed those naps and so did I. He did get to where once he went to a big bed I had to lay with him.

With my kids though they are high energy always in something. So if they didn't have a nap there was heck to pay. Neither would sleep anywhere but their beds. Sometimes they will fall asleep in the car and that's worse. Then they wake up as soon as we stop cranky as heck.

Cade has always been my sleeper. By three months once I figured out he was not like his brother and didn't need to touch me at all times. I put him in his own bed and he has slept like a champ since. He usually goes to bed around 8:30 or 9:30 and sleeps until then the next morning. He occasionally wakes for his paci but, if he just wakes up he hums to his self. He also takes a 2 to 3 hour nap. Sometimes its less if I am watching another baby because, the nine month old is a screamer. Cade is two.

Once Cole was three if he didn't seem tired. I would let him watch something kid appropriate and I called it quiet time aka mommy's time out. All I do with Cade is give him his blankie, paci, and pooh. I lay him down and say night night, I love you. Usually when I ask him if he's ready for night night. He will go get his blankie and paci come in here ready to go! Cole's sleep item was a bear. I should probably take his pacifier but, he sleeps so well that I don't want to torture myself.
 
My oldest stopped napping at 3, when I finally had to make him because he didn't sleep at night if he napped longer than 15-20 minutes. My youngest stopped somewhere between 18 months and 2 years; I'd have to check the scrapbook pages to tell you for sure! Neither of them was ever the type to sleep for hours. If I got a 1 hour nap out of them, that was wonderful.

My middle child is a totally different story. He's 9.5 now and still naps most days. (It's because kids with his genetic disorder are up very early in the morning--by 5 am for him--and then get sleepy during the day. Eliminating the nap doesn't change his sleep pattern, just makes him and everyone around him miserable.)

I'm not a napper--unless I'm sick or we're on a long car ride, no naps for me. DH is the total opposite--he naps every chance he gets (usually once or twice a weekend) but never in a moving vehicle.
 
I thought this was going to be about mommy naps too!! I love naps!!

I'm also lucky because I had two kids who cried the day they brought home their nap mats from Kindergarten. They both were still napping after school until 1st grade. They've always been good sleepers. I guess we are just a family of sleepers!
 
My oldest stopped taking naps at 2.5 years old. My middle stopped napping at 12 months. However my youngest, is 2.5+ years old and still naps. He loves his sleep though. He tells me he's going to go to bed, some days he says he's not napping, yet he rubs his eyes and gets extra snuggly. He is my best when it comes to sleep. At night, I rock him for a few minutes, sing to him and pray before putting him in his bed. Then he plays in his bed (never gets out of it) and before he goes to sleep, he cleans up his toys and then goes to sleep. It's quite cute listening to him in his room when it's nap time or bedtime! I have been blessed with him for sure!
 
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