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Family Forum / Parenting / Twins / November 2004nap strike??
For the past three days in a row, my girls have not napped. I put them down for their normal naps at the normal time, and used the normal routine. (How many times can I use the word "normal" in one sentence?). But all they do is play in their cribs for over an hour and then start crying. I usually leave them for 1.5 hours total and when there is no sleep by then, I go and get them. Any ideas for me? Should I try cutting them down to one nap a day? Right now they have two (well technically right now they have none). They are not quite 11 months old, and my older son had two naps a day until well after a year. I don't know what to do.  SignatureTerri & Rob Colton (11-29-00) Aimee and Kylie (12-22-03) Visit us at: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/aimee_kylie_colton/ That age is definally time for only one nap , I would not leave them in the crib that long if they cryin. They seen not be tired . Do they sleep late in the mornings ?? Put a movie on and see if they watch it quietly for u , I know u want some time to urseft , cause i been there . Good luck and try one nap a day. U might be stuck with wide awake kids , but hey they will go to bed early for u then. Glad to help out Tamie > For the past three days in a row, my girls have not napped. I put them down > for their normal naps at the normal time, and used the normal routine. (How [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > quite 11 months old, and my older son had two naps a day until well after a > year. I don't know what to do. Hi, Terri. Are the girls together in the same room? I know that when my kids got closer to a year, they wanted to interact. I put my son in a portacrib in one room, and left my daughter in her regular crib. That kept the "two nap" routine going a bit longer. If they're already separated and still bored/fussing, then yeah, I'd go for one longer nap. How long are their two naps, and when do they usually take them? IIRC, my kids used to take a morning nap from 10-11:30 or so & then a later afternoon nap. We eventually moved them to 3:00-5:00 all the time (we had them nap late b/c it gave us time with our older child, and neither of the twins had any difficulty going to bed at 8:00 p.m.). Jennifer They are currently in the same room but different cribs. Their morning nap used to be from 9:30-11 and the afternoon nap used to go from about 2-4. Right now, I put them in their cribs after the naptime routine, and leave them there but they do not go to sleep, as you read in my previous post. I can try to put one in a different room and see if that helps. Thanks. SignatureTerri & Rob Colton (11-29-00) Aimee and Kylie (12-22-03) Visit us at: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/aimee_kylie_colton/ > > For the past three days in a row, my girls have not napped. I put them > down [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jennifer > They are currently in the same room but different cribs. Their morning nap > used to be from 9:30-11 and the afternoon nap used to go from about 2-4. > Right now, I put them in their cribs after the naptime routine, and leave > them there but they do not go to sleep, as you read in my previous post. > I can try to put one in a different room and see if that helps. > Thanks. Good luck with that...it really worked with our kids. They just got to that age where they wanted to chat & play. I think being separated just bored them beyond belief. :-D Jennifer Three possibilities: a) Due to excessive playing followed by tears of exhaustion (theirs, not mine), I had to separate mine for naps (not for night-time) at about 8 months, so Jennifer could easily be right. b) Before mine went to one nap, I noticed that they weren't really tired at 9:30a.m., so I bought some time by gradually making both naps start later and end later and also making the a.m. nap a little shorter. So instead of 9:30, try 10:00 or even 10:30, but still get them up early enough that there's time for a second nap. c) Final thought: OTOH, despite being 6 weeks premie and despite the ped. assuring me it was impossible, Hanna did indeed go to one nap at about 9.5 months (8 months adjusted), and all three of them were on one nap by age one. The good news was that it was a very *long* nap, often 1:15 til 5:00 (sometimes later!) despite their 7pm bedtime. So I think yours could easily be ready for one nap. Try a) and/or b) and meanwhile prepare yourself mentally gradually to drop the a.m. nap by moving it later and later until you have just the one nap from say 1-3 or even 1-4. --Janet Elliot, Hanna, Connor (10/21/96) and Holly (4/4/01) > > They are currently in the same room but different cribs. Their morning > nap [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Jennifer |
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