https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:39:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2211057 Wed, 17 Jun 2015 11:04:05 +0000 pmrlady 2211057@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't set specific times for naps. We just put her down for a nap 2 hrs after her last wake up. For example if she woke up at 8am, she would nap at 10, if she woke up earlier at 7 then the nap would be 9. We chose 2 hrs because she eats every 3 hours so this way she gets a nap in every 3 hr cycle. This will also make it easy for you to tell her caregivers: nap 2 or 3 hrs after she last woke up, instead of trying to do specific times.</p> <p>Have you noticed if she gets tired or fussy after a certain amount of time awake? You can use that to know what time interval to make her naps.</p> <p>Since its usually warm outside we just put her in the stroller and go for a stroll or just rock the stroller and she falls asleep easily. You can try that if crib doesn't work out.</p> <p>My LO is 5.5 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210352 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:48:59 +0000 Eminthevalley 2210352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had good luck with setting a nap schedule at this age. Since your LO is home 5 days a week, you can enforce a schedule those days and after a week or two, she should just start to get sleepy at those times so the day care schedule will follow, if that makes sense. Just watch her cues, write down nap times for a couple days and then set times based on averages--I chose 9:00 and 1:00, with a catnap around 4ish at that age. Sometimes they'd be sleepy at 8:30, sometimes not til 9:30, so 9:00 was the time. Also, used Weissbluth's book religiously! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210328 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:27:21 +0000 raintreebee 2210328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the life of me, I could not get LO into a set schedule until closer to 6-7 months, despite reading Weissbluth and all the sleep books. I just went by wake time. Is that an option? You could tell the caregiver to put them down 2 hours after they woke up. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210326 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:20:42 +0000 MenagerieMama 2210326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Oliviapope: Good luck! We definitely did more "sleep learning" than training, and didn't do any CIO things, but I found the book super helpful for learning where LO should be developmentally and guide her sleeping into a predictable pattern and it's helped her be a great sleeper I think! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210322 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:19:01 +0000 Oliviapope 2210322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MenagerieMama: I'm stopping at the library on my way home tonight to pick up that book! Thanks! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210290 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:43:16 +0000 MenagerieMama 2210290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO was definitely on a solid routine by 5 mo. Weissbluth's book was what I used as a guiding resource (Healthy sleep habits, happy child - something like that). She slept 7pm-6am with 2 wake ups and napped at 9am and 1pm for 1-2 hrs, usually a total of 3 hrs napping. At that age, only napped in her crib (unless we couldn't get home for her nap, which we tried to plan around her naps if possible) and was very happy about falling asleep, every once in a while she wasn't super tired and would roll around for 20 min talking to herself until she fell asleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-routinescheduletraining-at-5-mo#post-2210288 Tue, 16 Jun 2015 14:35:20 +0000 Oliviapope 2210288@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 5 months and has no real nap schedule. Some days she takes a bunch of catnaps, sometimes a couple of long naps. She generally sleeps from 7pm - 6 am overnight with 1-2 wake ups - usually once at 3 to eat, sometimes another wakeup too. I'm fine with her nighttime sleep.</p> <p>I'm getting a lot of pressure from family members that LO needs naptimes and a nap place. It's hard to know where to start - she is in day care twice a week where they just really let the babies fall asleep on their own until they are a little bigger. At home, it's hard to know when to out her down. She has a couple of different family member caregivers who are looking for set naptimes. She doesn't love her crib during the day, we have some success with the swing. Sometimes in her crib she just rolls around and squeals happily.</p> <p>In the past week we have seen her lose it on a couple of sleep deprived days. I want to figure out a way to keep her well-rested, happy and healthy. I just don't know where to start since her days vary. I just want her to work with me and sleep at 2-3 set times a day, so I can tell people, ok, put her down at these times. I know it will never be that easy :)</p> <p>Any advice, resources, commiseration? Am I screwed because I didn't get her on a routine earlier?? Thanks for any input! </p>