https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:22:28 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1410109 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:56:35 +0000 Corduroy 1410109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She woke up at 3 and I brought her in bed and nursed her. She pretty much stayed latched until 5 when she did her crazy wake up yelling. </p> <p>I probably should have kept her in her crib after 3 am but Sunday is my day to sleep in. Selfish me didn't want to ruin it.</p> <p>I don't know if I should be worried about a pacifier or not. I'm realizing now I AM her pacifier so it's not as if she doesn't already have attachment issues. We're working on a lovey. So far she hasn't been interested but we're doing naps with the same blanket and toy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409946 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:53:37 +0000 hellobeeboston 1409946@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: how did she sleep last night?? My son had been sick and his sleep is really weird right now! </p> <p>Also - when she starts feeling better, I would suggest figuring out a sleep schedule you would like to keep, take a week or so, and work on implementing it.... Sounds like you are off to a great start! Maybe no pacifier if you don't want to start that habit, does she have a lovey or blanket?</p> <p>My son is 15 months, and a couple months ago we moved to one nap in prep for a daycare we were starting and it took a little doing bit he's doing great with one 2-2.5 hr nap now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409906 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:28:28 +0000 Corduroy 1409906@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: Normally when I try to get her back to sleep at 4:30 she will fall asleep in my arms easily but I cannot lay her down. Since she got sick last week I can't calm her down at all. It's like she's hysterical. </p> <p>It's funny that you ask what happens after 45 min into a nap. I'll have to find out if she'll go back to sleep. Today was the first time since month 3 that I got her to sleep somewhere besides on me. Maybe she will go back to sleep. I know daycare picks her up and holds her after she wakes up at 30 min because they can't get her to keep sleeping. At this point I'd believe anything is possible after today's naps. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409871 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 00:08:32 +0000 immabeetoo 1409871@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: Poor kiddo. I'd guess she is trying to still recover from her illness? What happens if you go in at the 4:30 wake and try to rock her back to sleep? I would try anything and everything to get her back to sleep at that time, no matter what, and see if you can 'reset' her and build up her sleep stores again. </p> <p>I'm glad she got a little extra sleep tonight even if it was a weird day! What happens when she wakes at the 45 minute mark? That's a typical sleep cycle. I'm assuming you have tried either leaving her to CIO or rocking/nursing back down? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409857 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:43:49 +0000 Baby Boy Mom 1409857@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I agree that it sounds like she's overtired and you probably need to work on breaking the habit of the early wake up. Also, sleep begets sleep so once she starts sleeping better her naps will probably naturally get longer. Things that help us in the early morning- black out curtains so that's it's pitch black and white noise. I will usually nurse to sleep and let him stay in our bed but will not talk/turn light on or anything that could signal that the day has begun. Good luck tonight! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409850 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 23:35:02 +0000 Corduroy 1409850@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So she finally woke up, nursed, ate dinner, had amoxicillin, played and now she's back asleep. I have no idea what to expect tonight. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409738 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 21:39:29 +0000 Corduroy 1409738@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>What the what? So about an hour after her last nap (45 min) she was begging for boob and rubbing her eyes again. I tried to put her down again since she was clearly cranky. </p> <p>No surprise, she didn't like that at all. DH convinced me to leave the house so he could put her down again. About 5 min after I left he texted me that she fell asleep. Now she is still asleep. That's more than a 2 hour nap, the 4th nap today, and it's 6:30. I am so confused. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409617 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 20:01:38 +0000 littlecasita1122 1409617@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Does she wake routinely at 4:15 each morning, like on the dot? My first suggestion was to set an alarm for yourself, maybe for like 4:05 and give her a pacifier if you're okay with giving those to her now. Maybe she will sleep through her normal wake-up time and hopefully get at least another sleep cycle in? Or the other suggestion would be to feed her before she actually wakes up and hopefully she stays drowsy enough to fall back asleep with having a little something in her tummy. I do agree that it seems her nighttime sleep needs to be lengthened before you work more on naps - good luck and hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409504 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:34:25 +0000 Corduroy 1409504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: if I set her back in her crib after she wakes to nurse at 4:15 she screams until we get her. Before her cold last week we decided not to get her until 6am. She screamed straight through. </p> <p>Since the cold its gotten so much worse. She's been coming in our bed between 1 and 3. Then at 4:15 she unleashes. I can't even call it screaming. It's the next level and she doesn't stop until the lights come on and we're out of the bedroom. Even the boob doesn't calm her at all. I thought it was ear ache related but that should be gone now.</p> <p>I completely agree that she needs more sleep during the day and at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409494 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:25:05 +0000 immabeetoo 1409494@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Whoa I agree with @birdofafeather: I would not treat a 4:30 wake as the start to the day! What happens if you put er back in bed at that time? I would start there, that's crazy early (poor mama!!) even if she went back down until 6, the two naps might lengthen. Does she have a lovey? That helps us a lot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409470 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:09:40 +0000 Corduroy 1409470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Well, we got 45 minutes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409465 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 18:01:14 +0000 birdofafeather 1409465@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i don't have a ton of advice, but i would look into extending her night sleep because 7-4:15 doesn't seem like enough, so it is probably feeding into the overtired cycle. </p> <p>sleep is so hard because every baby is different! if my LO woke up at 4, that's a MOTN waking and she would nurse and go back to sleep. we're night weaning now at 13 months though, so sleep has been a whole new ball game in terms of MOTN. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409429 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 17:21:53 +0000 Corduroy 1409429@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I pulled a Hail Mary move for the afternoon nap and sent DH in with a pacifier. She's never taken one for us despite many efforts but she took it and fell asleep! Am I an idiot for offering her one at 12 months?? I never read up on pacifiers since we didn't use one. </p> <p>Let the nap timer begin! Hoping for longer than 30 min! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409327 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:56:12 +0000 looch 1409327@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think you have to stop anything unless it isn't working but, for us, the nap amd night routines had to be the same, otherwise my son couldn't differentiate.</p> <p>He was also at 2 naps until 20 months, it could be your LO is overtired, hence the poor napping and the falling asleep without a lot of fuss at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409313 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:44:59 +0000 Corduroy 1409313@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@looch: We did CIO at 16 weeks and broke the nursing to sleep habit then but just briefly. She was just determined to fall asleep on the boob so she kept moving her bedtime earlier and earlier. Eventually we had no nighttime routine besides PJs and nursing. Its working for us and she will go down for DH if I'm not available. </p> <p>Do I need to stop that first? </p> <p>She was sick this past week so one MOTN wakeup returned at 2am. At that point I bring her to bed with me and she sleeps until 4:15 before screaming like a banshee until we get up. Before this week's cold she was in her crib until the 4:15 wakeup. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409308 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:38:27 +0000 Silva 1409308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My daughter is 9.5 months, and we've been going through a nap transition. She used to nap after 2 hours of awake time, and then after 3 hours of awake. But lately she really needs me to push it to like 2.5, or even 3 hours of awake time, followed by another 3 hours of awake time. She will start giving tired cues at 2 hours, but if I put her down she'll only take a 20 minute nap. If I hold her off, I can get at least an hour.</p> <p>How does she put herself to sleep at night? Our nap routine is almost identical to our nighttime routine, which has helped a lot.</p> <p>At one year, she may even be looking to transition to one nap. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409307 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:37:40 +0000 Corduroy 1409307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: sorry, I put today's schedule. Typically she wakes at 4:30am for the day. At day care she naps for 30 min around 1pm. If the woman picks her up when she cries at 30min she sometimes gets 30min more. LO goes to bed at 7pm. Sometimes on weekdays she takes a nap when I feed her after work 5-5:30 or so. It does not impact bedtime.</p> <p>Weekends home with me &amp; DH are very different. She wakes at 4:15 but then takes a short nap around 7, then 90 min around 10:30, 90 min around 3pm and bedtime at 7. That's with the ergo and nursing &amp; nursinnursing in the ergo. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409305 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:36:15 +0000 looch 1409305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How is the night sleep? What techniques do you employ there? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409276 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:09:39 +0000 Corduroy 1409276@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: she's never slept longer than 30 min without being held. Even when she only naps one 30min nap at daycare. I think if anything she's overtired. But clearly I don't know anything since I'm in this spot.</p> <p>Woke up: 4:10am<br /> Nap after nursing: 7:30 - 8:00<br /> Nap training nap: 10:45 - 11:15</p> <p>I think I know her tired cues pretty well. She was asking for boob to go to sleep - rubbingvher eyes and trying to get in my shirt. She had eaten and nursed about 20 min prior. If I had let her nap on the boob I think she would have gone 1.5 hours. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409256 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:54:08 +0000 immabeetoo 1409256@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: what does your schedule look like currently? 30 min naps at that age means to me that she isn't tired enough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409253 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:49:47 +0000 Corduroy 1409253@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>So I decided that there is no time like the present and declared we were starting nap training again this morning. DH read her three stories, turned on the white noise, gave her a blanket and laid her down. She cried for 42 minutes (with checks) and then slept for 30. In that 30 minutes we both got showers, installed two car seats, and started a load of laundry. I can't believe people get crib naps every day. They're great.</p> <p>When she woke up her crib was covered in poop. So that tempered my super productive morning. At least she slept some. That's better than we've done before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/starting-from-square-one-on-naps-at-1-year#post-1409016 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:55:10 +0000 Corduroy 1409016@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 2 weeks shy of 1 year so I put this in baby because I'm not ready to have a toddler. </p> <p>I am ashamed to admit it but LO has horrible nap habits. She only naps 30 min a day in a swing at daycare and at home she only naps in a carrier while we're walking or on my boob. Not nurse to sleep but actually on the boob for the entire nap. I'm able to set her down maybe once every three weeks. </p> <p>We've tried nap training several times. LO is capable of crying for a long time and she's perfectly happy to not nap all day. </p> <p>Still I think we're ready to try again. My husband has next week off and then the week after that LO will switch daycares. I was thinking the week my husband has off might be a good time to try to get LO adjusted to the new daycares nap routine (since we don't have one that works yet). My in laws will be in town that week too though and I don't think they can handle CIO. Tough cookies for them? </p> <p>Idk, I'm just kind of out of ideas and something needs to change. I can't believe I've let this go on a whole year. </p> <p>Any tips for this age? Anyone else deal with this? </p>