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[jaime183]

if you bed share at night does your baby nap in the crib?

he's in daycare 3 days a week and isn't napping at all. When we are home at nap time, we lay with him until he falls asleep in a bed with rails then when he's asleep we leave the room.

I think I need him to learn to nap in the crib.

[cat19]

I'm just teaching her now. She has napped on me this whole time. Oops.

[rainbowchip]

She usually maps on me or in the swing. Sometimes DH can get her to sleep on our bed or the pnp.

[Deleted]

He does nap in the crib - but not well. He does 30 min crib naps at daycare. On Sat & Sun his AM nap is in the crib for maybe 45min. His afternoon nap is in our bed (usually with DH napping too) and he will sleep 2+ hours that way. We nap him in our bed for that 2nd nap b/c the kids share a room and DD goes for her nap around the same time, but sleeps longer than DS if left undisturbed. We are still working on coordinating that afternoon nap - there is overlap but they still don't go down at the same time.

[katie]

When L first started DC we were bedsharing and she only took her naps at home on me. She didn't transition to crib naps until right around Thanksgiving. At DC they worked with her, sometimes she would go in the crib other times they would keep her in the bouncer. That was one of my main concerns and they were fully aware. She is still pretty much a 30 min napper at DC.

[mamasaurus]

We put her in the crib to nap, but sometimes she ends up finishing the nap on me.

[Deleted]

Nope, never in the crib. Only a couple times when I transferred him in there and it was only 20 minutes or 30 at the most. Now he wakes right up. We have our mattress on the floor and have to lay down with him. We are thinking of making the crib into a toddler day bed and just lining it up against our bed. Then hopefully one day he can be in his big boy bed in his own room, like around one (cant see this happening) or one and a half.

[eav2c]

No, he naps in my bed too. I don't mind the bed napping but am I working on transitioning to his PnP or crib for night time. I guess I need to go full force with napping in his PnP or crib too but I feel like that's asking for him to have a major meltdown.

[devotchka]

Jan 9, 2013 9:08:34 GMT -5 jaime183 said:

if you bed share at night does your baby nap in the crib?

he's in daycare 3 days a week and isn't napping at all. When we are home at nap time, we lay with him until he falls asleep in a bed with rails then when he's asleep we leave the room.

I think I need him to learn to nap in the crib.

I was wondering how it works w/ daycare. I am with him all day so he naps in the bed and sleeps w/ us. We have a bed rail up so that he doesn't fall out and a monitor that I try to be careful with. I wish he would nap in the crib, we will be trying to transition him soonish because he will be in daycare next year and this needs to happen at some point. Curious how to do it though, and lazy to try. We do put him down in the pack and play when we visit my Mom and it works out fine (we transfer from the bed to the pack and play) so I'm sure it can be done here, just naps have always been more problematic than nighttime sleep.

[devotchka]

Also - can the people that are transitioning to cribs or pnps talk about how they are doing this in detail? Curious what you have tried that works. I will miss the snuggles