Nap training...

[Kristin Ahern]

Hi mamas!
Looking for some nap advice! We did night sleep training w/ Ev and are in the process of doing it now with Thatcher. I feel like a have a grip on "night time training" but have NO idea how to nap train. We never did it with Ev and so he always needed help to fall asleep/ company to stay asleep.

#2 is the same way, except it's impossible to nurse/hold/ lay with him for 2-3 naps a day because I have another kid. He loved the swing as a newborn but he is 6 months now and stuffing him in there isn't exactly working (or safe) anymore.

I've read a lot about CIO with & without checkins. It seems like recommendation is to keep them in crib one hour of crying. Friends have also told me it takes 2-3 weeks of screaming to sort out naps and it often doesn't work anyway. Yikes!?. 3 hours of crying a day for 3 weeks does not sound fun (hence why I never nap trained w/ Ev). But I don't have options now & need a plan.

Can anyone offer advice or experience with how they got their first or second to nap alone in a crib (without hours of rocking / nursing beforehand? Did CIO work? How long did it take?

Thanks!!!!!

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[Gabrielle Maxwell]

Hi Kristin,

I don't have advice on naps…we did night sleep training with Maddie and were a disaster with naps (rocked her to sleep) until one day she just grew out of it and was happy falling asleep by herself. I wish you luck and would love to hear what's successful for you! I'm sure we'll have our hands full in a few months with the new baby,

By the way, we finally named our little guy! He's Reid! (Nell - thanks for sharing your last name =)

xoxo 

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[Kathy Byfield]

Baby Reid!!! Love it :) Hope you're feeling well, Gabi. Let us know how it's going!

Kristin, we sleep-trained Owen at 5 months for night-time and then shortly thereafter for naps. I don't remember him crying longer than 30/40 minutes and it only took 2 days (3 at the most). I just put him down and let him cry in his crib until he fell asleep... didn't check in routinely. You may try dropping him from 3 to 2 naps also? Might help?

I also kinda forced him to drop to one nap around 1 year, which was much sooner than Emmet did (and in large part, so they'd nap at the same time). He just takes one long nap in the middle of the day now (and since his first birthday). Not sure if Everett still naps, but if you can get them napping together at some point, it's great.

Good luck!!!!

Kathy

ps. Dara, how's breastfeeding going? Thinking of you... Dara/Gabi, send some newbie pix please!!!

[Nell Susan Reid]

ha!  anytime!!  love the name!  would use it if it weren’t my last name. :)  

I have no clue what I’m going to name this kid!!  

Meanwhile, I was never able to nap train Theo.  I still take him in the car every day.  I don’t know what the hell I’m going to do. Yikes. 

[Jessica Fischer]

I second Kathy- it only took us a few days to nap train and even still, poor Welles is always getting the shaft on the nap front.  I've tried to work it around taking Lincoln to and from school but there are times he gets a cat nap in and the routine is out the door!  Good luck.  The napping situation is much harder with the second.

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[Olivia Racanelli]

Hi! Also nap trained both girls and used same method of CIO (no check ins) as I used at night. In general I think once they learned to soothe themselves to sleep (after night training) they seemed to get the hang of it really quickly for naps - a few days of lots of tears and then ten minutes max after... And more of a fussy protest than a real cry which is much easier to stomach. 

Bruno would always say... When you are about to cave and go in, do one more thing (change laundry, read a book, etc) and then they would always stop!

Definitely give it a try and good luck!

[Jessica Sperling]

Don't think I have much to add to what's been said!  We did CIO for nights and naps, which worked much more easily with Eve than with Liddy. With Liddy and naps, we'd try it for a day or two, give up, and try again later. Probably not the best method, but she would just lose it for a really long time- plus we had a hodgepodge of family watching her during the weekdays while I was at work, which made consistency challenging. It finally took around 6 mo or so (at 2 naps/day), and now (10 mo) she's pretty reliable.

Good luck!!

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[Kristin Ahern]

Thanks everyone. Your success stories gave me the balls to start it today!

[Kathy Byfield]

Good luck!!!

[Michelle Neuringer]

You ladies are a breath of fresh air... the moms in my Windsor Terrace winter babies group will not let their babies cry or dare put them in their own rooms... and are getting no sleep as a result!!