https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:09:56 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-30-minute-napper#post-2777232 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:35:51 +0000 Dahlia 2777232@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DD was the same way - only napped more than 30 minutes if I was there to nurse her back to sleep. When we switched to one nap just after she turned one she slowly got better, and I would say by 13 or 14 months she became a decent napper most days. Now at a little over two she's started skipping nap altogether sometimes, but takes one when she needs it. </p> <p>She didn't sleep through the night consistently until I weaned her at 16 months. Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-30-minute-napper#post-2777218 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 13:15:50 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 2777218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was like this. It stressed me big time. When he turned 1 we switched to one nap mostly unless he was up super early or something. It got better! And honestly I started at that time knowing ok this is his only nap - it has to work. So if he woke up at the 30 minute mark I ignored him and he went back to sleep. Having his room super super dark helped too. </p> <p>Good luck. It's so frustrating. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/the-30-minute-napper#post-2777188 Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:02:42 +0000 littlebirdie 2777188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wrack my brain endlessly over baby sleep. I feel like I've tried everything, and I don't know if that is just the main things that has failed me that, because we've tried it all, there has been lacking consistency over time. </p> <p>We hired a coach previously, done sleep training, and had some success, but at the end of the day, we just haven't been able to get my son's naps to a solid place. Learning to stand in the crib was kind of the end of it all. Once he's standing, there is no going back. </p> <p>My son is 11 months. </p> <p>I've started to notice that my son does pretty well with naps on a more of a weekly cycle. Some days he gets 2.5-3 hours, and then the rest of the week he is having 30-35 minute naps, sometimes a 1 hour for one and then a 30 minute for the next, so we're getting under 2 hours those days. </p> <p>He's always a happy guy, but just has SO. MUCH. ENERGY. </p> <p>We've tried stretching him longer, and tried putting him down sooner, but it's just getting him to shut off and slow down is nearly impossible at times, and when we've built up good nap pressure that he goes to sleep more quickly, he still has a short nap. </p> <p>At night he's still not STTN either. I've never been a great sleeper, and my mom says he's the same as I was when I was younger. And I'm less concerned about this because he's still getting a solid amount of sleep overnight.</p> <p>I know this is a tough developmental age for sleep, he's learning to walk, he's teething, he's growing leaps and bounds... and I know this too shall pass, but I can't get past the mom guilt that he just struggles to get to a "good" nap length. Once he's up there is NO getting him back down unless I nurse him, but I'm only with him for 6 naps a week (3 days, and the days I can fill up his sleep tank). </p> <p>He is able to fall asleep on his own with no support, we just have to help him get to the point of drowsiness otherwise it takes him over an hour to go to sleep. </p> <p>Anyone overcome the 30 minute napper?<br /> Anyone have a high energy baby with a similar story?<br /> Did anyone experience this and have it change once their child transitioned to 1 nap?<br /> Did anyone else's child just nap less during the day, and it wasn't a big deal? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-help-5-month-old#post-2764734 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 08:12:29 +0000 raspberries 2764734@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ineebee: Thank you! Fingers crossed he figures it out sooner rather than later, haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-help-5-month-old#post-2764494 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:06:46 +0000 ineebee 2764494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's been a while since I've been there, but it looks like this is normal? (Sorry! I hated that answer, haha!) But hopefully his body will be ready to connect sleep cycles within the next month or so. I found these to be helpful!</p> <p><a href="https://childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/common-age-by-stage-sleep-schedules/" rel="nofollow">https://childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/02/12/common-age-by-stage-sleep-schedules/</a></p> <p><a href="https://childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/nap-101-post-3-how-do-i-teach-my-baby-to-sleep-more-than-one-30-45-minute-sleep-cycle/" rel="nofollow">https://childsleepscience.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/nap-101-post-3-how-do-i-teach-my-baby-to-sleep-more-than-one-30-45-minute-sleep-cycle/</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-help-5-month-old#post-2764486 Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:50:37 +0000 raspberries 2764486@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Anyone have any tips for helping a 5 month old nap longer? My LO has always taken 45 minute naps and I can't for the life of me figure out how to stretch them longer. I've tried in the crib, in the pack n play, with white noise and black out curtains, and everything I can think of.</p> <p>For the record, he's not upset when he wakes up - it just hits 45 minutes on the mark and then he's rolling over and looking around or playing with his toes and talking until it's time to eat. And he sleeps through the night, so I know he's capable of sleeping through more than one sleep cycle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540438 Wed, 04 May 2016 07:27:07 +0000 RonjaL7 2540438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could try a sound machine near the pack and play on white noise. That might help a bit. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540241 Tue, 03 May 2016 20:03:46 +0000 Mrs.Someone 2540241@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>3mo is definitely too young for cry it out anyway! I think at that age, he should be awake for a max of 90-120mins, so maybe he's overtired. I'd try swaddling then rocking/bouncing. Also, have you tried a paci? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540238 Tue, 03 May 2016 20:00:15 +0000 Foodnerd81 2540238@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@francypants: that sounds so exhausting, trying to work and take care of the baby. But your set up sounds about as good as it could be. </p> <p>My LO is 4.5 months old now and for the last month it's been way harder to get her to sleep on the go. She used to just sleep at her big sisters activities no problem. Now she does much better sleeping at home, but she still takes 40 minute naps all day long, whether on me in the carrier or in our room with the white noise and swaddle. She has never fallen asleep in the swing but I know other people have luck that way. Good luck- it's really tiring trying to do both like that, I'm sure! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540204 Tue, 03 May 2016 19:08:20 +0000 ocean81 2540204@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My baby didn't nap in a crib until about 11 months! Only in the car, stroller or on me. What about pushing him to sleep in the stroller in your office? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540191 Tue, 03 May 2016 18:48:16 +0000 MrsSRS 2540191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Maybe a swing at work would elongate naps? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540188 Tue, 03 May 2016 18:46:58 +0000 MrsSRS 2540188@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Eh. I wouldn't fret about the crib naps. At 6 months you can always sleep train for naps. We had to even though we'd done some crib naps all along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540169 Tue, 03 May 2016 18:31:52 +0000 BSB 2540169@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have no advice but that's so nice that you have the ability to take your LO to work with you. </p> <p>Are you a part of your local babywearing group? Maybe you can ask some fellow babywearers about getting them to sleep in the crib. I'm a babywearer but it's very part time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540131 Tue, 03 May 2016 17:10:16 +0000 catlady 2540131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@francypants: Ah, that makes sense then. I was picturing an office like mine, where we are in cubicles and everyone just works on computers or is in meetings all day long. I would definitely recommend trying a swing then, if you haven't already. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540115 Tue, 03 May 2016 16:50:18 +0000 JenGirl 2540115@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could see this working (for now) as a church secretary. I think my son does better at naps on the go than naps in his crib! So I think the carrier will be a great resource for you. But others are right that it will get difficult as he gets older and more active. Mine will be fine playing on his own for ~15 minutes, but not hours at a time. But maybe a combo of playing on his own and carrying. And if you're talking to/at him, that helps. It would get easier again once he starts being able to do activities on his own (coloring, building, etc.). But I think the toddler years might be difficult. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540091 Tue, 03 May 2016 16:14:06 +0000 LindsayLou 2540091@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@francypants: That sounds like an awesome set up while it works! Honestly, as he gets older, I'd personally be more concerned about awake time than sleep time. My nap-hating kiddo has gotten much better about napping at work since I started bringing her to work with me, but awake time has gotten much more challenging. I also have an early mover though--rolling at 5 months with a cast on a broken leg, crawling at 6 months, pulling up at 7 months, etc.</p> <p>If he sleeps well in a wrap, I would just keep doing that until it doesn't work. Like I said, my little one only started napping in a pack n play while I'm at work in the last few weeks. But she sleeps great in her crib at night and usually takes one nap in her crib on days that were home. My kid will sleep when she needs to, I follow her cues. As she got bigger, a soft structured carrier was more supportive to have her in for long stretches of time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540071 Tue, 03 May 2016 16:01:11 +0000 francypants 2540071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Its actually not too complicated. I work at a large church and have a pack and play in my office next to my desk where he is very happy with a little mirror and toys and things to grab and look at. We talk while I work and he is quite often playing there, with a coworker who came to steal him for a few minutes or in my arms when I need to run errands around the building. I don't expect this to last forever of course. </p> <p>@T.H.O.U - I wouldn't expect him to never cry. I'm just more wondering how other mamas do naps on the go and if it is possible to do that on a regular basis. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540057 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:48:39 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2540057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO goes to work with me. I also work in an office setting. It's not full time so I only need her to nap once while I'm working. I nurse her to sleep and let her nap on me. She rarely ever naps in her crib but easily goes down in her crib for nighttime sleep, so I don't really try to get her in the crib for naps. At that age my DD slept really well in the rock in play and swing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540055 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:47:35 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2540055@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This sounds pretty impossible to me.<br /> None of mine napped in cribs until six months and the period from 4-6 months was full of annoying cat naps.<br /> While mine love carrier naps they all would wake up as soon as I sat down. And by three months require too much interaction to focus on anything.<br /> I can get good long naps with the swing so that would be my recommendation, but I don't see that at a long enough solution. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540033 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:32:31 +0000 LindsayLou 2540033@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I work as a nanny, and bring my 8 month old with me. We started when she was 3 months old. She has always been a baby who loves to be worn, and still naps best in the carrier. When I started working again, she would only nap in the carrier. That did get better, around 6 months. She started taking at least some naps in the crib at home then, and just this month starting taking naps out of my arms at work.</p> <p>May I ask how your little one is occupied when not sleeping or eating while you work? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540017 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:22:04 +0000 wrkbrk 2540017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: LOL literally the exact question in the exact words forming in my brain as I read OP's post! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540014 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:20:43 +0000 catlady 2540014@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had a baby that was tough to put down. The only way I could get her to nap other than on me or in a baby carrier or in a stroller was in the swing. That was a godsend, and I highly recommend it for naps, although your baby will likely outgrow it soon.</p> <p>That said...I don't understand how anyone expects this to work? Will you continue to bring baby into work when they start crawling, walking, etc? I tried working from home a little bit towards the end of my maternity leave and the most I was ever able to get done was 1 hour per day. I just can't imagine that this will work out for you (sorry!). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540007 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:16:15 +0000 Littlebit7 2540007@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: i totally agree with francypants. I cannot imagine having my LO in the workplace except maybe when she was TEENY-TINY (4-10 weeks); she was unpredictable after that. Sure, she slept a lot, 4 naps a day, but she needed to be engaged during awake time as she progressed towards 4,5,6 months. And I would probably be a nervous wreck thinking I was disrupting my coworkers.</p> <p>My only suggestion might be a rock n play at work or a maybe a fisher price snug-a-something swing? It might make a crib transition easier at home as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2540004 Tue, 03 May 2016 15:10:20 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2540004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm sorry, I'm not really any help because I dont know how this is possible to expect a baby to never cry. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2539989 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:57:10 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2539989@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@francypants: What kind of job do you have that you can bring your baby to work? </p> <p>My first reaction is now that he's getting older and more alert it's going to be difficult to try to get him to sleep in a workplace and also difficult for you to do any actual work. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-taking-baby-to-work#post-2539955 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:26:42 +0000 francypants 2539955@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi Everyone! So I am a bit new to this (board and motherhood) and need some help figuring out how to pull off taking my baby to work and also getting him to nap. I am very thankful I can bring him with me to my 9-5 (ish) full time job. He is 3 months today and we have been doing fine since I returned to work at 8 weeks. Until now..</p> <p>My plan was to keep him on a 3 hour eat-wake-sleep schedule and essentially wear him in the wrap for his naps. I do have my own office, but I'm not in a space where I can let him cry much - so swaddling him up and letting him cry/fuss himself to sleep has never been an option.</p> <p>The wrap has been working but as he gets older and more alert, it is becoming much more difficult to get him to fall asleep in the wrap and to stay asleep. My other issue is that he's so accustomed to being in the wrap that he reaaally screams and fights when hes put in the crib for naps on the weekend.</p> <p>So here are my questions: are there other on-the-go mom's who really just aren't able to put their baby to nap in a crib during the day? And then if you do have to do naps in a carrier or stroller on a regular basis, will they ever nap in the crib? And is it reasonable to try and pull this off for at least a few more months? To maybe 6 months old?</p> <p>I love wearing him but I feel like I've created this little nugget who will NEVER sleep anywhere else but on his mother's body! AH! And I probably need a different post to talk about the fact that he's so used to waking up 30 minutes into a nap and having me immediately console him (pacifier in hand..because he's like.. on me) that when it happens in the crib, I can't get there fast enough and he screeams.</p> <p>And just to be thorough, here's our schedule:</p> <p>7am - wake up and eat<br /> 8am - swaddled in the crib, crying (him, not me.. mostly), attempt at a nap while I finish getting ready<br /> 8:30/9am - if he's awake, we just leave for work. If he's asleep, I try to let him sleep as long as possible before I need to leave<br /> 9am - back in the wrap at work<br /> 10am - wake and eat<br /> 11:15-11:30 - in the wrap to sleep<br /> 1pm - wake and eat<br /> 1:15-1:30 - wrap for a nap<br /> 4pm - wake and eat<br /> 4:30am - carseat home<br /> 5pm - attempt catnap in the crib.. baby cries the whole time (despite rocking, shusshing..) sometimes this becomes a stroller walk or carrier walk so he sleeps<br /> 6/6:30pm - eat<br /> 7pm - bath, bedtime routine<br /> 7:30 - eat and sleep </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dealing-with-a-1-way-roller#post-1367218 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:52:06 +0000 MamaMoose 1367218@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our case... we just sucked it up for a couple weeks. It was brutal. The worst part was that our LO actually rolled tummy to back first. But then when she learned to roll back to tummy it was like she completely forgot that she knew how to get herself back over. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/dealing-with-a-1-way-roller#post-1367203 Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:50:26 +0000 Cchoi4 1367203@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So we have a 6 month old boy who has been rolling from back to front for a few weeks now. He does not roll from tummy to back. When he is on his tummy, he is usually okay for 10-15 min before he starts whimpering for help. </p> <p>I've been putting a wedge in his crib to prevent him from rolling that way and then getting stuck. This mama wakes up twice a night as it is to nurse so I don't need constant waking from getting stuck. I also have a toddler sleeping in the next room that I def don't want to wake up! </p> <p>Last night I removed the wedge to see if he would fall asleep on his tummy. He rolled over to his tummy but once there, started crying for help.</p> <p>My plan is to keep the wedge in there until he starts to roll from tummy to back during the day...</p> <p>any other advice/tips/tricks? What did you do when this happened to your LO? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-letting-baby-nap#post-966370 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:32:36 +0000 edelweiss 966370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>that's the opposite of what i do. having said that, LO gets really bad naps at daycare--many times he gets 30 minutes total. but he's still healthy and growing, and i'd like to think i'm not permanently damaging his brain. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/not-letting-baby-nap#post-966366 Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:31:45 +0000 cheert16 966366@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yikes! I can't even imagine Lo not napping at all during the day... He would be a nightmare at bedtime!!! </p>