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Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« on: May 02, 2007, 09:50:37 am »
My DD is 6 months.  When she was younger ie: newborn to 3 months she slept the most in her pram or in the car now this has all reversed.  Since getting into routine during day have been mostly putting her in cot for naps.  She then discovered tummy sleeping and is sleeping much better.  The problem now is I am due back to work in two weeks time.  My mum will be looking after her on Mondays and she likes to get out of the house.  Yesterday she took her out around 12 ish after her bottle.  She usually gets solids at around 1.15 but missed this as she was out.  Mum then came back around 4.  The problem was she was due her sleep around 3 ish, didn't sleep when out, was overtired and it was too late to put her down as her bottle was due at 4.30.  I then had to put her down around 5 ish after her bottle as she was so tired but it kind of messed things up for the day.  My mum doesn't understand that she gets so upset when she misses naps and why does she not sleep when outside. Can I fix this in any way.  I think everything is too much a distraction when out eg. noise, music, people, things to look at.  How can I get her to sleep nap times when out and about??
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2007, 09:59:56 am »
IMO, I really don't think you can! You're right that there is so much to look at, she won't want to go to sleep. My dd stopped sleeping in her stroller around this age for the same reason.
I appreciate no one wants to be housebound all day, but at 6 months your dd will be having at least 2.5hrs of A time so surely that's enough time for your mum to get out and home again, and work around dd's naps? That's what I used to do when dd was that age.
Can you post your routine and we'll see if there's anything we can suggest?
I am a real believer in good sleep= happy baby, bad sleep = miserable baby and when they are young (and your dd is still so little) it takes some sacrifice on our part to accommodate their need for good naps. It makes it so much easier in the long run. In a few short months she will have A times of around 4 hours, plenty of time to go out for activities. Can your mum maybe compromise a little in the meantime??
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2007, 10:43:22 am »
Our routine so far is as follows

7.30-8.00 wake and bottle
9.00 - breakfast
10.45 - sleep (anywhere from 1 to 2 hours)
12.30 - bottle
1.15 - solids
3.30 - sleep (anywhere from 50 mins to 1.15 hours)
4.30 - bottle
7.00-7.30 - bedtime routine
8.00 - asleep

DD can easily go 3 hours activity time.  Mum likes to get out around lunchtime which is the problem but is she willing to fit in around DD and not other way round???

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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2007, 20:48:36 pm »
Once you turn them into a crib sleeper there's often no turning back. :) It really is better for them, though. Motion sleep, the kind of sleep they get when out, is not the most restful and restorative sleep. We can dig up some research on this for you to show your mom if you think it would help.

It looks like your mom has plenty of time to get out and about from noon - 3. Hopefully that works for her...
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2007, 21:07:21 pm »
we have the same problem!! so def have to run errands in btwn naps. my MIL/mom doesn't really get it either. you're not alone!
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2007, 21:14:10 pm »
We too had the same problem. Nosey little parkers! Want to see their new and exciting world-can you blame them?? :)

I used to hang a blanket around her stroller so she couldn't see and that worked for a few more months. After that, she'd just push it off hte stroller LOL and peek out the sides! :-\
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2007, 16:07:40 pm »
Thanks for the replies.  My mum thinks I obsess too much about these things, times and all.  She doesn't get it and thinks I'm just trying to give her orders when she's doing me a favour.  I can't win.  My aunt is going to be taking her one day a week as well and was saying `sure I can put her on the sofa with pillows propped round her and she'll go a wee sleep` and i'm like `aahhhh no, she won't sleep that way` so i'm having to get her a travel cot for naps.  Going back to work in over a week and have to say this is worrying me soooo much.

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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2007, 17:02:18 pm »
just stick to your guns- my family thought I was bonkers at times and when dd was about 9 months my dad admitted he could see the benefit of her good sleeping as she is such a happy contented little girl
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2007, 18:38:34 pm »
Agree with KathrynK that it does make for a delightful child! Playpens are wonderful! I have my daughter still at work with me (now only one day a week) and she's in the playpen out like a light now for 2 hours! Yay!!

I used to obsess too..dh thought I was mad! Have a good talk with your aunt about consistency!!

keep us all posted!
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2007, 18:44:25 pm »
I agree with PP, stick to you guns, your LO sleep is important.
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2007, 20:21:59 pm »
People tell me to bring my lo in to work and have her nap there! Ah, no. That wouldn't work. ::)
Maybe if your mom spent a day at your house with you home to see how smoothly things go when you stick to your routine, she'd get it. No one wants an unhappy overtired baby on their hands.
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #11 on: May 04, 2007, 01:27:20 am »
In another 6-9 months she'll be on one nap a day.  That's a bit easier to work with.   :)
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #12 on: May 04, 2007, 19:25:07 pm »
hmm I agree with pps that your mom should work around your LOs routine and that sleep IS probably better in the cot, BUT I also understand the need to get out of the house.  We go out everyday, after nap 1 and we come home before nap 2. We do lunch (solids) out-- I go for a coffee with dh or friends or just with ds.  We live in the city and it's a short walk to the oldtown pedestrian zone, so it's perfect for a stroll.  I do find that we do need to spend a bit of time at home before the nap (or more time at home before we go out) in order for him to have 'floor time' playing, crawling, cruising...using some energy iykwim...

We have a short am nap (I wake him at 45) so IF we have to be out for some reason, he can sleep that one usually out in the stroller-- because when he does sleep in the stroller it's never usually longer than 35-45 minutes.  But it IS possible, if we're out and it's naptime, it may take him a bit longer, but he does go to sleep... just for not as long (and probably not as restorative) but once in a while, it's ok..) 

didn't mean to be so long!  Good luck!

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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #13 on: May 04, 2007, 19:36:45 pm »
I agree with PP about having your mum and your aunt to come spend the day before hand to see how things run well and smoothly if you keep to LO's nap routine, explain it makes the evenings and bedtimes a nightmare if the day is messed up, your not bossing her about but asking that she consider her grand childs needs in all this.  I too was a slave to nap times at this age but it was better than her not sleeping at night which was the result of poor day sleep.
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Re: Won't take naps outside! How do I fix this.
« Reply #14 on: May 05, 2007, 11:21:25 am »
On discussing this issue again with mum after mentioning that yesterday when going to my in-laws for DD afternoon nap we put her in her pram for this nap in the front room but she wasn't having any of it and screamed with tears running down her face.  We then went for a walk with her but the eyes stayed open the whole time.  Mum said that she doesn't believe in `scheduled times for naps` that `how do I know she's tired when I'm putting her down at scheduled times` and that `she didn't do that with us and we slept fine`.  She said `what would happen if you just left her and she went off to sleep by herself when she was ready` and that `she won't sleep anywhere else because i've got her that way`.  I did not have this routine with my oldest.  TBH she didn't sleep through the night til she was 10 months old (maybe the odd time) and this wasn't resolved until I left her to cry herself to sleep one night (awful! it took 45 mins) but from that night onwards no wakings! but she hardly slept at all during the day just little naps here and there and gave up naps altogether at 2!  I am starting to have my doubts whether I've done the right thing with all this.   :-[
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