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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.

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.

@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.

Woke up: 4:10am
Nap after nursing: 7:30 - 8:00
Nap training nap: 10:45 - 11:15

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.

@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.

Weekends home with me & 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 & nursinnursing in the ergo.

@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.

Do I need to stop that first?

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.

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.

Let the nap timer begin! Hoping for longer than 30 min!

Well, we got 45 minutes.

@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.

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.

I completely agree that she needs more sleep during the day and at night.

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.

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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.

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.