For an infant, do you do naps where it is t totally dark and quiet, to get them used to some background noise, even if it means a shorter nap, or put them in a darkened room with white noise to get the longest nap you can?
I'm torn but since C is a pretty crappy napper, so I have been putting her in her room with the white noise. The room is dim but not black. I don't know if I'm setting up bad habits though. She's 5 weeks old.
bananas / 9973 posts
I WISH K would nap in the dim room with white noise! At 5 weeks, I feel like nothing is a bad habit yet, and they probably don't even have an established schedule yet.
grapefruit / 4923 posts
at 5 weeks, i say do whatever you can do help your LO sleep! although have you tried having her sleep with brighter lights? she may fall asleep anyway! but if she's napping well in the environment you've set up for her, i'd be hesitant to mess with a good thing 
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@edelweiss: she used to nap in the living room with lights on, me cooking, talking, TV, no problem. But as she got a little older her naps were getting worse so I've been pulling out all the stops.
She'll also nap in the moby but I prefer to not have to wear her the whole time.
honeydew / 7687 posts
@Foodnerd81: it made sense to me when someone else asked me how I slept best- in the dark and quiet or noise and light? We do room darkening shades and white noise still at 9 months. He can and had fallen asleep without them but sleeps better with them. Do what you need to do to get better sleep!
papaya / 10473 posts
I still do a dim room and white noise. I put him to sleep the way I'd sleep best, like @scg00387: said.
GOLD / wonderful apricot / 22646 posts
Ds didn't start napping in his crib with white noise/dim/dark lighting until 8 months! Before that he napped happily in the pnp downstairs in broad daylight. we did have a separate graco sound machine for those naps tho.
He was a swing napper until 4 months...
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@mrsjyw: C thinks the swing is a tortue device! She sleeps in the rock and play in our room at night and we've been doing naps in her crib in her room during the day, so at least she will be used to it.
wonderful cherry / 21504 posts
@scg00387: @grizz: I'm gettin so used to her white noise machine that I think I'm going to need to buy another one for our room when we move her into her own room at night!
grapefruit / 4291 posts
My Plunket Nurse recommended putting an older newborn into their own bed with curtains pulled for naps, she said that as baby becomes more alert they struggle to nap in busy areas.
papaya / 10570 posts
E will nap anywhere between the hours of 10am and 3pm. Shechas started being harder to settle in the late afternoons and, of course, between the hours of 7pm and 11pm she is a full on nightmare!! We have found that a darkened room, her swaddle and the sound of waves crashing against the shore helps. DH thought the waves sounded like the womb... Im not sure how tidal the amniotic fluid really was but it seems to work!
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