https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:17:42 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1945794 Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:38:19 +0000 Suzanne44 1945794@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following. We started sleep and nap training on Tuesday night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1939234 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:06:15 +0000 mrsrain 1939234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Did you institute some sort of routine before naps to signal your LO it was nap time? Not really. basically carry her upstairs, turn off the lights, turn on the sound machine, lie her in the crib, tell her I love her and I will see her after her nap, and leave.</p> <p>2) During nap training, if LO refused to nap, did you wait until the next "nap time" or did you just let them get up after X(how many?) minutes then try again the next time they looked tired? Initially we tried gradual CIO, where I'd go in after 5 minutes, then 10, then 15, etc. Didn't work for her because each time she saw me she'd get more worked up. So then if she started crying (really crying, not just fussing) I would give her 15 minutes. After an hour if she was still crying (with me checking on her every 15 minutes to calm her) I would get her up. I only had to do that once or twice. </p> <p>3) If you did try to get them on a schedule, how did you choose it? Was it similar to what they'd done before (if they had a schedule) or did you pick a new schedule that worked better for your life? I started putting her down for a morning nap about 3 hours after she woke up and then 3 hours after waking from her previous nap. This seemed to "kick-start" her bodily clock and now she is usually tired enough to nap after 2 hours of waking in the morning and 3 hours of waking in the afternoon. Sometimes she takes a third cat-nap around 4 or 5.</p> <p>4) The biggy: What method did you use to nap train? Did it work? How long did it take? See #2 for details. It took about a week for her to catch on to this whole napping thing. I chose a week when I knew we would be home every day so that errands would not interrupt us. My initial attempt to do gradual CIO did not work, but when I adjusted my method it worked pretty quickly. </p> <p>Side note: sometimes she will awaken during her nap (around 30 - 45 minutes) and fuss a little bit. I do not go in to get her unless it is a full cry that goes on for more than 10 minutes. She is still learning to string together her sleep cycles, and sometimes will wake fussy but then go back to sleep for another hour or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1939122 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:29:39 +0000 Mae 1939122@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyTsMom: yea I'm reading on average 8-10 books/month! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1939024 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:39:21 +0000 BabyTsMom 1939024@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mae: ugh! Naps suck. I remember now that my lo stopped napping well on me. When I used to hold him, I could get good naps from him but then they started getting shorter and shorter... Luckily that was right around when we night trained so I figured I'd try setting him in his crib for naps (previously he refused to nap there). So as long as she's still napping well on you, maybe just accept it and wait for her to outgrow it?! It can't last forever, right? Watching shows and reading on my tablet helped.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938787 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:10:15 +0000 Mae 1938787@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyTsMom: this did not happen for us unfortunately. She has been night trained for a month and her naps have gotten worse! Before we night trained I had to rock to sleep for naps but then I could set her down and she'd sleep 1-2 hrs. Now I can't set her down at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938784 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 09:06:33 +0000 looch 1938784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same routine as night, minus the bath.</p> <p>We had to nap and night train at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938640 Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:05:22 +0000 Grace 1938640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) nap routine was exactly the same as at night<br /> 2) I would just get her up. If she screamed bloody murder for 15 min, I gave up and tried again an hour later. If there were pauses or it seemed like she was winding down, I waited longer.<br /> 3) naps became scheduled once she stopped with the 35 min naps. That happened because one day I had to finish cleaning the toilet before I got her. Lo and behold, if I waited exactly 8 min, she went back to sleep! Eventually, she stopped waking at the 35 min mark and had long naps, which meant she could be awake longer.<br /> 4) sleep training was with checks. I would check if she hard cried for 3 min. If she whimpered or was winding down, or paused for a min before the 3 min mark was up, I reset the clock. I think the longest it took for her to fall asleep at the beginning of training was 30 min total. She hit the 3 min mark twice in that time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938619 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:52:06 +0000 BabyTsMom 1938619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Yes. Modified bedtime routine that basically involves sleep sack, one or two books (always the same books), turn on white noise, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, then a kiss and "it's nap time. Night night."<br /> 2) He's only refused a few naps, luckily, but for those I have let him CIO for up to 1 hr. :sad: It didn't work and I always regretted it. I would try again at his next supposed nap time. (Most of the time the refusal was for the last nap of the day, and I would just get him and put him in a carrier and let him nap that way rather than let him cry for the full hour).<br /> 3) At almost 6 months, his naps are getting more predictable but I can't say we're on a true schedule yet. Naps depend on his wakeup time, which still varies by 30-60 min. I just follow his lead.<br /> 4) I was so scared about nap training. Read my previous posts. Lol. It turns out that once I night trained him, his naps really just fell into place. I went from having to hold him for every.single.nap (like you, I literally had zero down time) to having him nap in his crib but only for 30-45min, to now- he now goes down easily and sleeps well. He did have a couple of times where he refused to nap and so I guess the method of training I used was extinction CIO but like I said above, it didn't work and I regretted it. I think I needed to wait until he naturally did it on his own. Which is what so many bees told me but I was so eager to get his naps down asap!!! I hate naps!! </p> <p>@Pumpkin Pie: At 7 weeks, there's pretty much no schedule.....and a lot of people think nights should get sorted out before naps are addressed. For us, I definitely think night training helped sort out the naps. I was MISERABLE from week 8-18 or so, when he decided he wasn't going to nap anymore unless it was on me. Hang in there. It gets better (I can't believe I'm saying this, because people were saying this to me and I never believed it either). When my LO was 7 weeks, my husband and I had to take turns eating dinner so one of us could hold him. Or, I would have to eat while having him in a carrier- and I have dropped food (luckily not hot) on his head more than once. :wink: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938473 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:44:16 +0000 Mae 1938473@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: you ate while your baby slept at 7 weeks?! you're doing good mama ;) </p> <p>2-3-4 is a popular nap schedule when LO moves to 2 naps. Nap 1 is 2 hours after wakeup then Nap 2 is 3 hours after wakeup from Nap 1 then bedtime is 4 hours after wakeup from nap 2. </p> <p>My LO is 6 mo and still has a max awake time of 1.5 hrs so we are a ways off from that! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938465 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:42:16 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 1938465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Excuse my ignorance but what is 2-3-4?</p> <p>@Mae I can only hope we can do nap training by 8 weeks. Sleep is just all over the place for us. My husband and I ate dinner tonigt with a night light on because our baby had just fallen asleep in her swing in the living room. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938401 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:09:07 +0000 hilsy85 1938401@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Yes, it was very similar to bedtime routine--change diaper, sleep sack, nurse, read a book, sing a song, white noise, crib.</p> <p>2) I think the general rule is to get them up after an hour and try again an hour later (or at next nap time, depending on how old they are). </p> <p>3) We did 2-3-4 for about 2-3 months (7-9 months or so) and then I chose to do a 9am and 2pm nap, because he was no longer napping well with 2-3-4. So it ended up being 3-3.5-3.5 once he was on the 9 and 2 nap schedule. </p> <p>4) We used Ferber and parent attended CIO and yes it worked. I nap trained at 5 months and it took about 2-3 days, and then re trained at 13 months and it took ONE nap. Amazeballs. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938326 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:29:17 +0000 Mae 1938326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: Its my post so I obviously don't have it all figured out, but I will say I succeeded in nap training (sorta??) at 8 weeks. I think my LO was just really ready for it then (that is, until 3.5 months when it all went to shit and here we are at 6 months rocking and holding for every single nap)</p> <p>@twodoghouse: I'm still jealous they will sleep not on you. We're at the point where I literally can't set Fia down at ALL for naps. Not at all. I have 0 baby free minutes from the moment I wake up until her bedtime! She's all sorts of cute but mama needs a break. </p> <p>@Little Misters Mom: thanks for your input! </p> <p>@Mrs. Tiger: looking forward to the post!</p> <p>@catomd00: I sort of feel the same.. although we'll see how desperate I get and I may try CIO (again. We tried once with bedtime and it was horrible and I couldn't take it). For bedtime "training" we just put her down and went back in to give her her binky every time it fell out and shush her every time she got upset. For her this worked way way way better than CIO for bedtime (down in 25 min the first night with no crying v. a 2 hour ordeal that resulted in both of us crying and her vomiting). I'm hoping that if I'm really committed to just giving her the paci back 4000000 times until she understands she needs to fall asleep she might actually fall asleep? maybe? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938319 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:24:55 +0000 catomd00 1938319@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: I wouldn't worry about a schedule yet. At that age, as soon as you start seeing a pattern and settle in a routine they change it up again! Around 6 months is when things got a lot more predictable and scheduled for my daughter. I found when she was younger it was easier to go by time elapsed between last feeding/nap rather than watching time on a clock if that makes sense. You'll get better at reading her cues as time goes on.</p> <p>12 weeks was a turning point for us. You'll soon enough miss the squishy newborn days! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938310 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:21:13 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 1938310@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Please tell me it'll get better soon. Please!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938306 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:18:43 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 1938306@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Tiger I was afraid it was too early. I'm anxious to get on some kind of schedule. This whole infant thing is killing me. Never know what to do. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938304 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:17:37 +0000 catomd00 1938304@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Pumpkin Pie: 30 mins is pretty typical nap length for that age. They will get longer as she gets older! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938303 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:16:42 +0000 catomd00 1938303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our nap routine is just turn on white noise, get lovey and paci and rock for a few minutes. Pretty much the same as bed routine except at night we nurse.</p> <p>We try for 30 mins to put her down for naps. If it's a no go and she is happy in her crib, I throw a few toys in there and she has "quiet time". Sometimes she falls asleep sometimes she doesn't. We don't believe in CIO so if she starts crying we will take her out to play or try to put down to sleep again. Depends on how she is acting.</p> <p>She set her own schedule. Luckily it's the same schedule that her class at daycare is on. She takes two naps a day - morning and afternoon. Typically one is 2 hours and the other is one hour. She changes up which one. Some days she only takes one long 3-4 hour nap.</p> <p>We didn't nap train, we just followed her lead. She is almost 9 months and got into this routine around 6.5 months. Prior to that she napped whenever and wherever she would sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938300 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:15:33 +0000 twodoghouse 1938300@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Commenting so I can follow along. My kids have been napping well recently but one's in the swing, ones in the RNP. I really want to get them to nap in their cribs but they won't have it. Oh and half the time we only get 35-45 min naps. I'm wondering if we figure out napping, overnight might be better too? Things overnight are crazy again!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938294 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:13:28 +0000 Mrs. Tiger 1938294@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) Did you institute some sort of routine before naps to signal your LO it was nap time? What was it? </p> <p>Yup, we do shortened version of nighttime - diaper change, in the rocking chair with lovey and musical mobile on for a minute or two, and then in the crib. I nursed DS1 to sleep for a year but don't nurse DS2.</p> <p>2) During nap training, if LO refused to nap, did you wait until the next "nap time" or did you just let them get up after X(how many?) minutes then try again the next time they looked tired?</p> <p>Wait it out :/ </p> <p>3) If you did try to get them on a schedule, how did you choose it? Was it similar to what they'd done before (if they had a schedule) or did you pick a new schedule that worked better for your life?</p> <p>I just wrote a post on this, should publish soon! We had luck with the 90m program, and then the 2-3-4 program after that.</p> <p>4) The biggy: What method did you use to nap train? Did it work? How long did it take?</p> <p>Not sure what the name is but periodic checks (every 5-10 mins) if crying, but either don't pick up from the crib or just pick up very briefly. I also think that full on crying is different than fussing, and would ignore fussing/complaining. I think it took a bit over a week for both of them to get it.</p> <p>Good luck!</p> <p>@Pumpkin Pie: I think 7 weeks is kind of early to do nap training! I didn't start until at least 12 w. To each their own though :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938284 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 20:07:45 +0000 Pumpkin Pie 1938284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following. I cannot get my baby to nap for more than 30 mins. When did you start nap training? My baby is 7 weeks. I just try to put her down when she looks tired but I'm not good at reading her cues. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938269 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:54:44 +0000 Little Misters Mom 1938269@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>1) We did a modified version of bedtime. Sleep sack (bed time is Merlin), turn on sound machine, sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and his Soothe and Glow Seahorse.</p> <p>2) I set a one hour cry limit (with 10 minute checks) but he only hit it once on the first day. If he didn't nap, I just got him up and waiting either one hour or until he started rubbing is eyes and yawning again.</p> <p>3) We are loosely on an 2 hours of wakefulness schedule. I'm waiting for him to regulate to a standard nap time, but his morning wake up time is all over the place which makes nap predictability hard.</p> <p>4) We used CIO with Ferber checks at 10 min intervals. If he didn't nap he got up after an hour (several times he just played in his crib the whole time) and tried again. We tried to pay close attention to his sleepy signals. I'm not great at it, and found using the clock in conjunction with things like rubbing eyes helped. I will say, despite the common advice of not letting them get overtired, he actually needs to be pushed to be very tired in order to fall asleep without a fuss and stay down. He still occasionally cries for approx 5 minutes, but I'd say we were "done" in about a week. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nap-training-yes-another-post-with-questions#post-1938237 Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:26:45 +0000 Mae 1938237@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Questions: </p> <p>1) Did you institute some sort of routine before naps to signal your LO it was nap time? What was it? We have a bedtime routine, but our "nap routine" (if you can call it that) is diaper change, into merlin, white noise on, binky in, and rocked to sleep. Takes 5 min if that. </p> <p>2) During nap training, if LO refused to nap, did you wait until the next "nap time" or did you just let them get up after X(how many?) minutes then try again the next time they looked tired? </p> <p>3) If you did try to get them on a schedule, how did you choose it? Was it similar to what they'd done before (if they had a schedule) or did you pick a new schedule that worked better for your life? </p> <p>4) The biggy: What method did you use to nap train? Did it work? How long did it take? </p>