Nap time routine?

Question

I know they don’t have to be long but I just haven’t started one - what do you guys do before nap time to signal sleep?

Answer

Walk into nursery, turn on noise machine, put on sleep sack, rock for like two minutes tops and then put her down in her crib!

Answer

Our babies aren’t supposed to stay awake for more than 1.5 hours at a time at this point?! I consider it a good day if I can get one proper nap out of him in the morning/lunch time. Otherwise he’s just awake; eating, playing or being changed all day. He does get really fussy towards the later part of the afternoon and evening right until he goes to sleep for the night though so I am probably doing something wrong. 😔 I do try to put him down when he seems tired throughout the day but he tenses up and refuses. If I persist he will scream and the whole thing usually ends with me breastfeeding him again. It’s a frustrating cycle.

Answer

I don’t let her stay awake more than 1.5 hours before offering her nap. I swaddle her, make the room as dark as possible, turn on the white noise machine and will rock her till drowsy. Last week we started putting her down drowsy, but awake and teaching her to put herself to sleep. Within a day she started mastering it! It isn’t always perfect and sometimes we are picking her up 3-4 times before the nap sticks. That in itself has made our schedule develop and naps not become a battle. I also recommend taking cara babies :)

Nap time routine?

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