My baby girl is 10 months 3 weeks old today. She has always been a short napper. I was hoping she would grow out of it and around 9 months she did sleep about 1 1/2 for her second nap, but about 4 weeks ago stopped and went back to a short one. Her sleep schedule is this: 6:30-7:00 am wake up, 1st nap around 9:00 (45min), 2nd nap around 1:00 (45 min, but I leave her in her room for atleast 1 1/2 so I can get some stuff done), then its bedtime around 6:30 or 7:00 pm. She is crawling/cruising, starting to talk, and teething too. I have tried adjusting the nap times, but it doesn't seem to matter. These short naps make for a fussy tired baby who rubs her eyes and yawns about half and hour after she wakes up, and is falling apart late in the afternoon. I love her so much and love staying home with her, but I am really frustrated right now. And I do know this will pass and she will turn into a beautiful little girl, and that is what keeps me going.
2007-03-04 11:35:03 · 9 answers · asked by HES mamma 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Hey! Our second child is now 14 months and let me tell you . . . we were there! naps and stuff. We still have one nap per day, sometimes two, if we are lucky. She just moved from two to one. Anyway, I am home with her during the day, and I put her down, at the earliest, at 10:00 AM, and she gets up at 6:45, 7 AM-ish. If I put her down earlier, I don't think she would be ready. This is my suggestion. Starting at 9:00, have some one on one time with her. She will stay focused. Then, at 9:30, bring her to your bed, put on Baby Einsteins or some kind of video and while she is distracted, try some therapeutic massage with a very little bit of olive oil. It might take her a while to get used to it, but be patient. She will eventually love it. And remind yourself of all the benefits therapeutic massage has: bonding with your child; increasing immune function; developing confidence; increasing circulation . . . the list goes on. It doesn't need to be a half an hour long, but when 10:00 hits, try putting her down. She will be relaxed from the massage and music and might sleep soundly from that. We also run a small fan right outside her bedroom, so she doesn't hear her sister playing in the next room, who is 3 years old. The book we have for baby massage is "The Practical Art of Baby Massage" by Peter Walker, and we use it as a guide and create our own routine from it. Whatever you do, because you care so much, you are already ahead of the game. Congrats on your beautiful 10 month old! - Ashley
2007-03-04 11:47:13 · answer #1 · answered by ashley_david_ny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know how hard it is to have a short napper!!!
The only thing I can recommend is letting her take her first nap a little later.
She sleeps from 6:30-7pm all the way through 6:30-7am which is terrific!!!!! That right there shows that she is really getting alot of sleep!!! 12 hours! Plus 2 additional naps during the day which equal to around 1 1/2 hrs to 2 hours. So she is getting around 14 hours of sleep per day and that is right on target for her age!! She really isn't lacking sleep, she is getting it by sleeping 12 hours through the night.
I can recommend maybe strapping her on your back in a backpack while you have work to do around the house (I did that with a couple of my kids who did not nap very long) or you can put her in a playpen or in a secure room for a few while you do your errands.
Good luck!!!
2007-03-04 12:07:55 · answer #2 · answered by blueyonder 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a 6 month old who wakes up around 6 or 6:30... and most days she doesn't nap but maybe an hour out of the whole day.. (two half an hour naps) so she's very cranky in the afternoon.. i found the best thing to do is to go outside and go on walks.. (sometimes she'll fall asleep in her stroller), or if she won't sleep and it's getting to be near dinner time/bath time/ and bed, then i take her to walmart or something (2 minutes from my house) and walk the aisles.. i put her in a front carrier and she likes to look at everything... by the time i get back home it's time to start our night time ritual.. i think the best though during the day is to go on walks.. being in the stroller makes her tired and she usually conks out. good luck.. i know how hard it is.. i just wish that she'd take an hour nap at least once during the day!
2007-03-04 17:34:07 · answer #3 · answered by daisylady 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's just how it is, they need less and less sleep as they get older. Maybe you should wait til she gets more tired in the morning, like 10:00 am. Or you can try to just give her one long nap, like 1:00 til 2:30-3:00. She's almost 1 yrs old getting only about 12 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period is not so unusual.
2007-03-04 12:30:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
parenting is the hardest job there is,mine are grown up and now i have grand babies,my first child,a little girl,was the same way,i talked to my pediatrician and she gave some medicine that didnt help at all,try to keep her up and busy as long as possible between naps,you do know that after awhile they quit taking naps.my grand baby is 2 and she quit napping by the time she was 1 year old.she does go to bed alot earlier and sleeps all nite from not taking naps at all good luck
2007-03-04 11:52:17 · answer #5 · answered by mysteria 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My son on no account slept plenty in the process the day, for the reason that he replaced right into a new child. He replaced into an awsome night time sleeper, 730pm-730 or 8 am for the reason that 7 weeks. he's 9 months now, around 6 months he started slumbering for an hour interior the afternoon and that replaced into it, in the previous that he slept for variety of half-hour interior the am and an hour interior the pm. If hse does not look rested or you're overly worried i could seek suggestion from your pediatrician yet no longer all toddlers take a great sort of naps......
2016-09-30 05:09:17 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try keeping her up longer by playing with her and keeping her busy. Babies need/like lots of stimulation, but be careful not to over stimulate her as this will only frustrate her. Get her out in the fresh air whenever possible for walk and play time. Get her socializing with other babies.
PS Are you breast feeding? If so, maybe you are ingesting too much caffeine which is affecting your baby's sleep.
2007-03-04 11:50:30 · answer #7 · answered by margarita 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
do as much as you can during the day,, waste her energy so shes pooped and will go right to sleep.... go on walks outside to ,, its much more peaceful to sleep
2007-03-04 11:44:10 · answer #8 · answered by Keayr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2007-03-04 11:37:46 · answer #9 · answered by Aaron R 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋