Napping 30 minutes?

For the last 2 weeks one of the girls have decided to nap only 30 minutes at a time, and it is driving me absolutely crazy. :umm: I will leave her in bed in the hope she will go back to sleep, and if she does, it takes at least 20 minutes. By that time the other one is awake to, and no matter what I do, I cannot win. They are sleeping pretty good during the night, last night they went from 6:45pm till 5 am, and then back to sleep till 6:00. I don't know what to do, anyone been in the same boat???

 

My guys are close to yours in age and mine are doing the same thing! It drives me nuts!! Hopefully someone will give us some insight!

 

Yup - the exact same here and it has always been that way. DD#1 will only nap 30-45minutes. I think we are going to start separating them in different rooms for nap time.

Good luck to all of us!

 

Yes, I had the same issues when they were sleeping in the same room and finally had to move dd into the pnp in our room to nap and things did get better. Then I would let them CIO if it was less than an hour. The CIO wasn't too terrible as long as I distracted myself. Also, by this time I knew their different crys, so if I heard a cry I didn't like I would go in (even though that was usually the end of the nap). Now things are much better and both sleep at least an hour. It just seemed with mine at about 5-6 mos. they kept waking each other up. I didn't want to separate them, but at the same time, napping and getting a proper amount of sleep as babies is vital, so I did it, and I don't regret it.

 

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For the last 2 weeks one of the girls have decided to nap only 30 minutes at a time, and it is driving me absolutely crazy. :umm: I will leave her in bed in the hope she will go back to sleep, and if she does, it takes at least 20 minutes. By that time the other one is awake to, and no matter what I do, I cannot win. They are sleeping pretty good during the night, last night they went from 6:45pm till 5 am, and then back to sleep till 6:00. I don't know what to do, anyone been in the same boat???



We have been in the same boat as well. We finally had to put them in different rooms yesterday in hopes they don't disturb one another and possibly lengthening the naps. Our dd can nap for up to 1 1/2 hours but our ds will only occasionally go longer than 30 mins. We have really been trying hard to put them down as soon as we see the early signs of being tired. Today they have both only been doing 30 min. naps...We read in Weissbluth's HSHHC that as they get older their naps lengthen but some can be "short nappers"...

 

I merged your two threads, as TS does not allow duplicates.

 

The girls went through that - it was just a phase. I didn't put them in different rooms or anything - they just worked through it. Now they nap 2 hours in the morning and 2 in the afternoon - sometimes more!

I know it is frustrating but one day they will pass that 30 minute mark (in our case 45) and you will be SOOO excited. I think it has something to do with reaching milestones - they just get out of wack.

 

My guys would go through that; even now somedays that will happen. However, for nap time they are sometimes in seperate rooms if my Noah is being loud going down.

 

One of mine does this pretty regularly. They usually nap for 1-2 hours late morning, then for a short 30-60 minutes in the afternoon. If Sarah wakes up after 30 minutes and I am afraid she will wake her sister, I pull her out of her crib and put her in the swing, and she almost always falls back asleep for a while. They have always liked napping in the swings.

It is tricky, though, because we want them to get used to their cribs (napping in them, that is) and so sometimes we CIO at the beginning. But when I am having my frustrating days and she really needs the sleep because she is so exhausted, it is easier for both of us to put her in the swing.