https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:28:54 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543965 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 17:21:10 +0000 kjpugs 1543965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: no rocking- she sometimes falls asleep while eating if she's really over tired but I still burp her. Usually though it's putting her down drowsy.</p> <p>@abbylyn: love those 10/15 LO's :-) I really have to start getting up at the same time. It's just really hard for me to get up early so I selfishly let her sleep in past 6 if she does! I would do 7 easy but sometimes she's up earlier! (Those days suck.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543858 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:55:43 +0000 abbylyn 1543858@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Awww, our LOs share a birthday :) Lucy's morning nap is just starting to stretch out, but the rest of her naps are all about 45 minutes, sometimes less. We've started waking her up between 7 and 7:30 every morning, to try and get her on a schedule and in preparation for sleep training. They're also in a wonder week for another two weeks - hang in there and see if it doesn't get a little better when the wonder week is over! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543738 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:22:19 +0000 hilsy85 1543738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it was around 6.5/7 months that my LOs naps got longer on their own...it's tough when they nap and they're still tired but won't sleep more! She's going to sleep on her own though? You're not rocking her to sleep or anything? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543728 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:18:39 +0000 Charm54 1543728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah this is us. Dd is 6.5 months and STTN 6:30pm-8:00am but is a TERRIBLE napper. Generally 2 45 min naps. Anything over an hour is a great day.</p> <p>She wakes up from her "naps" well rested though so I've decided this is probably just how she is going to be! Not much help, I know...but I sympathize ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543702 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:09:19 +0000 MrsH 1543702@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kjpugs: ha ha, I love sleep too. I've been going back to bed after her 5 or 6 am wake up until 8 or 9 and it is by far my best stretch of sleep - I won't be able to do that in two weeks when I have to go back to work and I know I will be sooooooo tired. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543694 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:06:53 +0000 tysonja 1543694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>does she take a soother? :)</p> <p>my 6 month old often wakes halfway through his second nap, and I either let him fuss/cry for up to 20 min, even the angry cry, OR I usually put his soother back in and he drifts off for another hour. :)</p> <p>also, he's my second LO (LO#1 is 22 months) and so unfortunately he only gets 2 naps a day. His brother took 3 a day till he was 8 months, but with our schedule 2 naps is what works for us, and it seems to be ok for him! :)</p> <p>hope that she naps better for you soon!! :) then you can get some rest too! :) you're doing great ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543682 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 16:00:36 +0000 kjpugs 1543682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: she usually is up sometime between 11pm-1am and then sometimes once more early like 4-5am. Other times she'll just wake up at 3am-ish. Typically just one wakeup now unless the first is really early and then sometimes a second one. So, not bad! That's a HUGE improvement from her sleep in the past. We love sleep! We keep saying... why do you hate it so much, you didn't get that from us!! :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543675 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:58:39 +0000 MrsH 1543675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kjpugs: :( ugh. That is a crazy early bed time - at least she sleeps really long at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543674 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:58:20 +0000 kjpugs 1543674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@twoofeverything: I actually like your answer! I would love to know that it could organically improve eventually. It's somewhat hard for me, but I mostly worry about her. We do let her fuss and don't come get her until she's definitely up/angry, but I could definitely do more of that if it helps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543667 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:55:25 +0000 kjpugs 1543667@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: I didn't even get to go to a birthday dinner yesterday because she napped 3:45-4:15 and then we didn't have enough time to go to our old-person-early dinner. (No family/friends here to babysit.) It makes me so sad. Plus I'm home alone 5 nights a week (DH works nights) so once she's down at 5:30-ish, I'm a hostage. Can't leave. Can't do anything! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543665 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:54:23 +0000 twoofeverything 1543665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You probably won't like my answer! But around 7 months both my twins started to consolidate their naps and sleep longer. I also let them fuss for a bit (5 or 10 mins...less if they were really upset/up to 20 mins if they were just whimpering). I think that was the key for us, because it forced them to self-soothe and learn that I wasn't necessarily coming to the immediate rescue. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543662 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:53:55 +0000 MrsH 1543662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@kjpugs: DD is only talking cat naps lately and is a crankbutt by the end of the day if she doesn't get a long nap in so I completely understand. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543657 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:51:58 +0000 kjpugs 1543657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsH: we do that too! I let her fuss it out (she moves a TON- had to put up breathable bumpers after her first night in there because she got stuck multiple times!) and don't get her until she's actual-crying and/or CLEARLY awake, not just fussing. I'd say 50% of her naps it's 30 minutes ON THE DOT. I could use it as a kitchen timer, haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543651 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:50:03 +0000 MrsH 1543651@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Right now I'm just letting her fuss after she wakes from a short nap hoping she puts herself back to sleep. She's been rocking in the swing for an hour and keeps waking up/putting herself back to sleep. I just posted a similar question :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/help-me-help-my-bad-napper#post-1543646 Thu, 03 Apr 2014 15:47:31 +0000 kjpugs 1543646@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO takes the crappiest naps and I don't know how to help :(</p> <p>She will be 6 months on 4/15. She finally around 4 months got on a schedule-ish (3 naps a day) and is sleeping in the crib, no more swaddle/merlin. Nighttime sleep has much improved, too.</p> <p>But her naps are generally only 30-40 minutes. Every once in a while she'll throw an hour nap in there. But having maybe 2 hours TOPS of naps a day? She's going to bed at 5:30 now (or melts down if we wait longer!) because she's SO tired. She will wake up from her nap and 10 minutes later be rubbing her eyes. Her eyes have that tired "bags" look a lot of the time and it breaks my heart.</p> <p>We were not feeding to sleep but have tried doing that for naps sometimes to help her go down, since she takes a bottle before going to bed at night and goes down easily. There doesn't seem to be a difference in how long she naps either way.</p> <p>I let her sleep in until whenever she needs to get up in the AM (always hoping she'll sleep later and get more sleep) she will be up anywhere between 6 and 7:30. I work from home so I can go along with whatever she does.</p> <p>Anything work for any of you? I'm willing to try (almost) anything. I just want her to be well rested! And it makes me sad that I barely get any time with her after work. </p>