How does your nap time routine differ from your bedtime routine?

Question

Normally we just have my son sleep in his swing or near us for naps. But since he’s starting to outgrow his swing, we’re trying to get him to nap in his crib. But I want him to know the difference between naps and bedtime. 
What do you do?

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One thing I do differently to distinguish the two (apart from pjs, teeth, bath on bath days, etc), is to sing a different lullaby. I have 2 I always use for naps (the first one always, the second one if I think she needs more convincing it’s time to sleep), and a different one for bedtime. Not sure if it makes a difference to her but it’s something I started doing around 5 months when I was trying to sort her sleep out a bit.

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We do similar- room black dark, sound machine going & in her zipadee zip.. then u nurse her & put her in her crib. Night is similar but obviously add bath/books before that.

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For her morning nap, after she eats breakfast we go to her room change her diaper and rolls around her room while I read a book, then put her in the crib with her sleep sack, make sure she has her binkys and bunny and put the sound machine on. Afternoon pretty much the same thing after she eats lunch but we don’t usually read a book, it’s diaper then right to the crib. For bedtime, my husband gives her a bath after dinner, then he plays in her room with her and reads her a book, they come downstairs for her last bottle, then he takes her up for bed, checks her diaper, brushes her teeth and puts her to bed the same way I do during the day.

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I mean our daughter goes to daycare during the week but on weekends the only difference is that she doesn’t get a bottle before nap but does before bed. Once it’s nap time I literally just get her from whatever she doing (usually just playing) and go change her diaper and lay her down in her crib. At bedtime we change a diaper, get jammies on, and I sit and feed her in the rocker in her room and then lay her down for bed. She goes down for both naps and bedtime awake. She is also allowed a pacifier for nap time but not for bed time (I know it sounds weird but the pacifier at bedtime was causing sleep issues).

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Right before naps I’ll put away his toys and we’ll go to his room and get it ready for a nap, close the curtain turn on the sounds machine, and then I’ll rock and read him a book. For night time I pretty much do the same thing, just add in a bath and brush his teeth before I read him a book.

How does your nap time routine differ from your bedtime routine?

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