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Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« on: March 02, 2012, 11:54:26 am »
Perhaps I am over thinking this but our downstairs is totally over-run with C's toys and I can't stand it any longer so I have split her toys in half to put half in her bedroom. Some things are small enough to fit in large plastic tubs but her garage, for example, is going to just be on the floor of her room.

Will this be a distraction to her to go to sleep? Her bedroom has only ever been about sleep and she is an angel at settling for naps so I don't want to confuse her by having toys that she thinks she wants to get out of her cot and play with. She does sleep in a very dark room but there is still some visibility.

Anyway, tell me if I am being ridiculously daft as nap time is approaching and i'm wondering if i should move them!!!!! ::)

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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms?
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2012, 12:01:03 pm »
We moved more toys into DS's room when he was probably a bit older than C (I would say it was around 18 months or so), it never encouraged him to get out of bed until very, very recently when we were right at the end of the nap dropping phase ( :( ) and I would watch him on the monitor creeping out of bed, grabbing a toy and creeping back in! But he was bored - there was rarely any napping going on at that point (he does have a bed guard on his bed though which I think acts as a barrier and even though he knows he can get out it seems to stop him doing so - he even calls for us to come and get him in the mornings!).
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms?
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2012, 12:11:31 pm »
Quote from: cuckoochick on March 02, 2012, 22:54:26 pm
Perhaps I am over thinking this

I would never worry about over thinking- i'm exactly the same- sometimes i have to stop myself posting a question about everything!!
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms?
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2012, 12:34:56 pm »
DS has some toys in his room, but he can't see them from the cot so it's not a distraction.

Along one wall there is a bookcase with his books and toys, then his cot in the middle of the wall (long side against the wall), then a chair.

If he looks out of the cot he can only see his changing unit or the door, neither of which are very interesting  ;)

If you can arrange the room accordingly she should be fine  :)
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms?
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2012, 13:17:56 pm »
Well, it all seemed to work out fine. There wasn't really a way for me to organise them at the moment without having to move furniture and I can't do that by myself but she went to sleep fine anyway! Phew! ;D

Thanks ladies! :-* It's funny how sleep can get to us eh?! :P
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms?
« Reply #5 on: March 02, 2012, 14:08:12 pm »
Hi Nicola

L has some stuffed toys in a basket in her bedroom and a few books but that's it.  It's a small room so not much room for much else.

I'd say, try it and if it ever becomes a problem then think about moving them out.

Pleased she napped fine for you today :)
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #6 on: March 02, 2012, 14:27:10 pm »
Oh well I boasted too soon! She woke after 35 mins singing loudly and then has been drifting in and out of sleep, keeps waking and singing. This has never happened in months however, I don't think it has anything to do with her toys! Little monkey!! Looks like it's EBT for her tonight!!

Maybe a teeny bit OT or could be developmental- she's been practising singing all morning and randomly picked up the Balamory tune as it came on while I was making lunch! :P Actually I'm sure it's not OT because she never short naps from OT.
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2012, 16:07:25 pm »
Doh!

Sounds like it wasn't anything to do with the toys.

That's so cute she woke up singing though!
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2012, 18:48:05 pm »
Lewis has toys in his room but they've always been there so don't distract him.  Nothing in cot though!  Don't want him to have a reason not to go to sleep!
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2012, 19:01:17 pm »
Well operation EBT underway! They're not distracting her it seems. C has a lovey and a teddy bear in her cot with her at home.

At MIL's she has her lovey (Mark 2) and MIL also lets her take dolls to bed with her...you know the hard ones with a soft body. So conducive to sleep eh?!!! ::)
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2012, 19:38:16 pm »
Quote from: cuckoochick on March 02, 2012, 19:01:17 pm
At MIL's she has her lovey (Mark 2) and MIL also lets her take dolls to bed with her...you know the hard ones with a soft body. So conducive to sleep eh?!!!
you gotta love the rationale of the grandparent eh...my mum and dad decided not to use the small unobtrusive night light we gave them for H once and put in their lava lamp instead about 1cm away from his face!!
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #11 on: March 02, 2012, 19:52:38 pm »
DD has books and puzzles in her room and I might be moving some dress up clothes as I think they would be better suited up there then where they are now.  THOSE have not bothered her sleep @ all (she's still in a crib also) But today during nap time I had to take out all the stuffed animals she sleeps with (3) and just leave her with her blankie and her lovey b/c they seem to keep her from sleeping. She got mad at me and then fell right to sleep lol
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #12 on: March 02, 2012, 22:21:34 pm »
God- i had to laugh- We've been keen to have nothing around his bed so that it's boring- good for sleeping.. Well- mum has always struggled with this.. One day she was putting him down to sleep at our house- and was in there for ages!! I go in to see her dragging the clothes hamper over to beside the bed and setting up a toy giraffe for him to look at!! ::) she said 'i thought hed like to look at something' AAHH!! I was like- if e felt he needed to 'look' at something we'd have probably put something more permanent than a CLOTHES HAMPER!!!! ::)
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2012, 23:22:35 pm »
When I saw this I immediately thought of dd1's room which is full of toys :P However she is 3 1/2, thinking about it dd2 has no toys in her room. And the other day I was thinking it would be nice to have this alphabet wall rug thing up in her room but decided against it as figured it would be too distracting! She also settles like a dream for naps and I don't want to
Hamper that!! So sweet about the singing :)
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Re: Do you have toys in your LO's rooms? **update nap was a bust **
« Reply #14 on: March 03, 2012, 00:09:46 am »
Just saw this honey, we put some toys in Zs room a few months back, they are in a basket at the end of the cot, he can't reach them from his cot. He doesn't really use them much anyway,but they are good for dressing time and quiet time or just another placebo venture too! Z is pretty spirited but they don't seem to have affected his naps, lights on when he isn't napping. Off when he is and I think he is usually ready for sleep at nap time KWIM?

Oteher than his loveys and paci we do only have one soft toy in the cot, a cow he likes and sometimes cuddles, it hangs out in the corner. ::)

Re develmental nap mess...about this time Z started playing up at BT, naps were spared, but we had a sleep saga! There is a WW around 15-16 mths ;)
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