Quick nap question for today!

[hanna]

LO has a cold again. She woke up at 6.00 this morning and started yawning at 10.00. Then Unfortunately she fell asleep in the car and slept 11.00-11.10. Her normal nap would start soon, at 12.20. What do I do? Try at 12.20 or wait until 13.00 or something? normally she wouldn't have fallen asleep at 11.00 in the car. I think it's the cold.

Thanks.

[Buttonbobs]

Not sure if this is too late but we have had this before and gone for a nap at a similar time to normal and sometimes she does go for it. If it doesn't work, get her up and try again half an hour later and see what happens.

Good luck x

[hanna]

Thanks, maybe I should have tried the normal time of 12.20  I kept her up until 13.00, and she did not want to, just cried, so I tried in the car and she fell asleep from 13.45-13.55 (because she woke up when I put her down in her crib.) I left her in there for a good while but she was just unhappy. I ended up just putting her to bed at 6.05 pm. So 6 am to 6 pm basically with 2x10 min naps. Will see how she does tonight.

I just feel like I wasted the whole day trying to get her to nap, staying home and driving around. She always takes her naps in her crib. If it happens again, I almost feel like I should just forget about the nap and go do things we normally can't to because of her usual nap from 12.30-14.30... She would probably get a 20-30 minute car nap at some point, which would be more than today. Do you always try to do it at home?

Thanks again.

[Buttonbobs]

No we don't always try at home. Some days it's just not possible and she does manage ok nowadays with a no nap day (although she can be a bit upset before BT if we don't get it right). You plan sounds like a good one for future x