Schedule for 3month olds?

I have been trying to put the babies in their crib for morning naps, but I put ds in and he goes to sleep, then I put dd in the crib and she screams, so that wakes ds up - so neither one of them sleeps! Help! Should I just not put a screaming dd next to me ds, I don't have a ton of room in the place I am staying at, so I don't have a bunch of different rooms to stick them in. After a few days will they be able to sleep thro each other's screaming?

 

Our babies are the exact same age I think. I have been trying to do the same thing. I will be interested to see the replies. My guess is that they aren't quite ready for scheduled naps yet (mine don't seem to be...they just sleep when the feel like it wherever they feel like it).

 

I haven't had any luck scheduling naps for my two. In fact, they haven't napped at all today and it's been a nightmare (daymare?? LOL). Mine are 4 months old, but about 2 months adjusted age. I'm thinking they are just too little for a schedule yet. I'm interested in others' replies as well.

 

Mine are napping as we speak!!! ahhhhhhhhh....sweet quiet house!!!!
I let them nap wherever they fall asleep during the daytime (bouncy seats, on their pillows on the couch after feeding them etc).
I have found that for the past few weeks they nap right after they eat (within a half hour or so) and moving them upstairs to their room would be a huge pain & wake them up.
I dont schedule their naps, but they definitely take a nap after each feeding (bottle feeding every 3-4 hours).
We do take them to their cribs ONLY at night after their 'dinner' bottle though.
One or the other will wake the other up pretty regularly, but we let them whine for a few minutes & normally they go back to sleep if we dont get them out of their crib ~

 

At 3mo I was still 'putting' (nursing, shooshing, patting, rocking, pacing, whatever it took!) my girls to sleep for both naps and bedtime. I always put the sleep fighter down first so if dd is the fighter start with her.
I also am just finally getting my girls on some sort of schedule NOW at 6mo!

Good luck!

 

At that age Katie wasn't yet on a scheduled nap either. Around 6 months I got her schedule down exact...

 

Mine are just 3 months (born 1/14), and I've had them taking a scheduled morning nap for a few weeks now. I forced it, though, because I needed that time in the morning to help get the day started for the rest of the family (couldn't manage getting breakfast ready, etc., with 2 in need of sleep, unhappy babies!).

My kids generally wake between 6:30 and 7:30, then go down like clockwork 1 1/2 hours later (they start to act sleepy, so I breastfeed them, then put them down in their cribs...it can take some work to get them to stay asleep). All other naps throughout the day are unscheduled, which I think is normal at this age? Lately, they've mostly been taking 45 minute "crap naps" (I HATE short naps!), so that's the next thing we'll be working on...

I got them to start taking a predictable morning nap by feeding them, then popping them in their stroller to take a walk around the neighborhood every day at 9am. It only took a few days before they were going down for a nap without stroller motion

I really wish I could just put them in their cribs, kiss them, and walk out the door...but I have to admit that naps and bedtime still take quite a bit of work (rocking, nursing, rubbing heads, you name it!). Maybe someday?

 

I started naps in cribs at 3 months when mine started sleeping 12-13 hours at night. Maybe put your daughter in first, let her fall asleep, then put you son down--that way she can't wake him up

 

They're too young for both CIO and scheduled naps. At this age, if they scream when you put them down, they still need your help going to sleep - holding, cuddling, nursing, whatever. They are unable to self-soothe. And your best bet for getting enough sleep out of them is just putting them down after about 90 min awake. So a by-the-clock schedule can't work, unless the length of naps is always the same.

There's all the time in the world to transition them to cribs - for now, just do whatever works!