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I clicked on this because I thought it was going to be a funny story about K falling asleep in the playground or something

I know what you mean though, I've seen kids asleep in their jumperoo and I don't get how that can happen! S has come pretty close to falling asleep on the changing mat recently when I'm rushing to change her before her nap, but that's all!

Never! Actually I think it happened once in the church nursery when she was pretty young, but these days I think L would stay awake all day long if we didn't put her down for a nap.

@Anutka: Exactly! DS1 just turned 2 last week and has fallen asleep that way once. He fell asleep while eating for my mom in the evening. He was around one. And for bedtime he has only fallen asleep once by himself! The other night he climbed down from our bed to his toddler bed, tucked himself in, and passed out two minutes later. I thought it was a miracle. I doubt it will happen again any time soon.

I think once LO fell asleep during tummy time. She was like 1 maybe 2 months old. I needed to cook dinner & she just laid her head down on her mat so I walked away & she slept a bit. There were a few times where she would be playing on her mat (on her back) & she would doze for 30 minutes or so. All these instances happened prior to 3 months old when her sleep had no pattern & before she hit a regression. I have no idea how it happens with older kids. I'm not even sure how kids just take a nap in their playpen in the livingroom. My LO would never do that. She needs to be in a quiet distraction free environment.

Um never?

T has fallen asleep randomly twice in his whole life. Once sitting up eating lunch while sleep deprived during a road trip. Once when we were at the country bear jamboree at Disney (he was sick)

Never ever even close! I dream of that nap! At 19 months LO is decidedly a gal who only naps on mama or in the car. Sometimes when she's playing she'll grab her blankie and pull a pillow off theccouch and I'm thinking, 'oh man! This is it!!!' but it neverrrr happens lol.

Nope- never. I am in awe when I see babies sleeping while eating or playing- but I gotta admit it makes me cringe! I'm sure that baby is utterly exhausted, falling asleep eating spaghetti- put them down for a nap!

Hahaha we must be the crazy exception to the rule because my lo has done this twice! Both times in her jumperoo. She is actually pretty great at napping and we always follow her cues but twice she was jumping jumping jumping and then laid her head down and fell asleep instantly. I think the jumperoo was still moving lol! She hasn't used the jumperoo in months though so these must have been around 5-6 months old? She was still pretty teeny.

LOL my 29m has only done this twice. And that's only after going to be super late the night before, it's now 4pm and she still hasn't napped and her older cousins are visiting and they Tucker her straight out!!

@Pirouette: Haha, same here. J doesn't really nap anywhere except his crib or car seat - except a freak nap he took around 6 or 7 months, where he just laid his head down in the jumper and started snoozing. It was SO weird - I picked him up and put him down in his crib after a few minutes but it was crazy how fast it happened. I actually worried for a second that he had some kind of medical emergency, but no, he just hit a wall REALLY fast.

Nope. Neither kid will do that. They will tantrum instead if they're too tired. Who are these babies?!

@shopaholic: I've always wondered about these magical babies. Never happened under my watch!