https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:20:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1048872 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:21:01 +0000 Crisark 1048872@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@wonderstruck: Shouldn't be more than $25 to get one. I know that seems like a lot. But, I'm telling you, Anna has never slept better. My middle daughter used her's the same way. They are my savor. This is the one I have:<br /> <a href="http://www.walmart.com/ip/Leachco-Cuddle-U-Nursing-Pillow-and-More-Jungle/10972966" rel="nofollow">http://www.walmart.com/ip/Leachco-Cuddle-U-Nursing-Pillow-and-More-Jungle/10972966</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1048847 Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:15:09 +0000 wonderstruck 1048847@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I wish, the 5 S's have never fully worked for us because LO hates his pacifier and gets super upset if you try to give it to him. He prefers to suck on his fingers, which of course means we can't do a full swaddle! He's also going through a stage where he will fight the nap even harder if we're holding him. Even in the swing I have to move where he can't see me or he won't fall asleep. So that makes rocking him and the side/stomach position not happen. He's making it a bit difficult as you can see!</p> <p>@Crisark: We don't have a boppy, maybe I should consider getting one. </p> <p>@woohoo585: Swaddling used to work but now he just screams bloody murder. I tried it anyways on his first nap today, along with the rocking even though typically having us holding him makes it worse too, but no luck =( I did it for quite a long time in case I just wasn't being patient enough before, but had the same result. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1047230 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:50:20 +0000 mrbee 1047230@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tied the 5 S's? Sound is one of them, so maybe using all 5 would help! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1047191 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:42:00 +0000 Crisark 1047191@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A is like this...she is 19weeks.<br /> She sleeps 11 to 12hrs straight at night but napping is awful.<br /> We have to lay her in her boppy pillow on her side (which is how she sleeps at night...until she learns to roll over that is lol) and snuggle her in a blanket (not swaddle because she screams for ever) and just keep her arms and legs still and she will go to sleep.<br /> The boppy has been a life saver for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1046977 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 14:24:16 +0000 HappyBaker 1046977@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is how my LO was one around that age too, and we luckily started daycare around then so they helped teach us how to get her to nap. </p> <p>1) We started swaddling her - we always thought she hated the swaddle / it never worked, but after seeing it be successful at daycare we started doing it at home. We used the SwaddleMe velcro ones.</p> <p>2) We started rocking her to sleep for her naps. I know rocking is just another "crutch", but it was AMAZING after struggling for so long, and it ALWAYS worked. After swaddling we'd sit in the rocking chair and rock pretty fast for 5-10 minutes. Even if she was screaming her brains out, she almost always was completely asleep by the 5 minute mark, we just had to power through! Once she was asleep we'd put her in the crib. We also used a pretty loud white noise machine.</p> <p>A few months after starting this she learned to roll over, so we ditched the swaddle, and she naturally just stopped wanting to be rocked. </p> <p>Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/getting-my-3-month-old-to-nap-is-driving-me-insane#post-1046858 Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:37:50 +0000 wonderstruck 1046858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Guys, I feel like I'm losing my mind from either listening to crying or the vacuum cleaner for hours every single day. I am very lucky that my LO is awesome about sleeping at night - he goes down by 8:30 and sleeps until about 6:30, occasionally waking up for a feed but not very often.</p> <p>But he HATES napping. He gets tired after 1-1.5 hours, but fusses and cries and just fights the nap so hard. The only thing that works is putting him in his swing and turning on the vacuum. But when I do that I have to leave the vacuum on for the entire nap - the second I turn the vacuum off, he wakes up! I've tried apps with the vacuum noise and sound machines and such, but none of it has done me any good, it has to be the real thing or it doesn't work. And sometimes even the vacuum/swing trick doesn't work, in which case I usually end up having to let him fuss and cry for a bit before putting him back in. Sometimes that takes several tries, and if he fights the nap for long enough I might get lucky enough to get him to sleep in the swing for hours, even without the vacuum running. But only if he got so over-tired that he was in screaming meltdown mode, which I'd obviously rather avoid.</p> <p>I think I've gotten him to take a nap in his crib once, and in the swing without the vacuum or screaming 2 or 3 times, but he woke up still tired, pissed, and refusing to go back to sleep about a half hour later. I've put up light-blocking drapes and setup a nap routine to calm him down, neither of which has made a difference.</p> <p>Any advice?? I'm praying someone has been through something similar and either has a suggestion or can at least reassure me that this will end. I know I need to break him of the vacuum/swing habit, but how? </p>