one more nap question?

the soothing has been going well for the most part. our morning nap was great. the difficult LO went to sleep without any hassle. he did wake up twice during his hour and half nap and i had to rub his head to calm him.

his afternoon nap only lasted 1 hour, as opposed to the 2 it usually is. he screamed and screamed and screamed. i rubbed his head, talked to him, sang to him, everything. i did not want him to wake his brother up so i pulled him out of his crib.
now hes sitting on the couch. is that it, lol? if i lay him back down he will scream and i cant have him waking up his brother. i feel bad.
i know i should just leave him there but alllll he does is scream and it does wake his twin. i cant separate them during this training, lol


ETA
i held him in his room until he was calm. his eyes were open; he was no means asleep.
i laid him back down in his crib. he fussed for about 25 seconds, then started to relax. i rubbed his head for about 2 minutes and now hes asleep.

did i do the right thing?

 

I don't see anything wrong with what you did. He was still awake when you put him down, so he still got himself to sleep. Sometimes, I found with my kids, they would get themselves so upset that they just would not calm down until I picked them up for a minute. You just have to go with your instincts, there are no right or wrong ways of doing this! It sounds like they are definitely moving in the right direction! :woo: Congratulations on hanging in there!

 

thank you
he was reaching up for me, hysterical...i just couldn't get him to calm down.
i put him on the couch (picked up the computer to ask advice, hahaha) and he giggled. i put him back down 5 mins later and he was ok.

 

I agree with Tina, sometimes you just have to use that mommy instinct to decide! My twin dd will work herself into a frenzy, if I just pick her up and snuggle her a bit, she'll settle down within a couple minutes and go back to sleep. My only suggestion for next time would be to try picking him up still in the bedroom, kind of rocking side to side and singing or shushing him, and see if you can calm him down that way and then lay him back down. You don't want to get him used to being brought into the living room

 

thank you! i will try this instead!