tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833980002201342292.post4898334442621685327..comments2023-11-02T04:09:32.285-07:00Comments on It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Nap BattleJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11910339848371245054noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833980002201342292.post-14823970656942242322011-04-07T21:46:55.754-07:002011-04-07T21:46:55.754-07:00@Holly - I'll look into it. Thanks!
@Kathy - ...@Holly - I'll look into it. Thanks!<br /><br />@Kathy - damn. 2?!? This is just further proof that our children are destined to be together. Le Sigh. Well, at least one day we'll sleep, right?Jessicahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11910339848371245054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833980002201342292.post-84009855707755540632011-04-07T18:26:45.748-07:002011-04-07T18:26:45.748-07:00OMFG. I had a super long comment typed here and B...OMFG. I had a super long comment typed here and Blogger ATE IT.<br /><br />GRRRR.<br /><br />anyway, what it said was that Gracie was the same way (I know, you are shocked). Her morning nap would go thru short spurts of being good, but was never consistently good at any point. Her afternoon nap was nonexistent until we took away the morning nap. What I COULD get her to do was fall asleep in the car, so I started keeping books and magazines in the car, and I would just sit with her while she slept (for up to two hours). That sucked because I was brutally tired as a result of her rotten nighttime sleeping and couldn't sleep with her, but it was better than nothing and I got some really good reading done (I would read the New Yorker and the Atlantic and was really well-informed. There was a really freaky, disturbing article about Cameron Todd Willingham in the New Yorker that I read in front of our house in broad daylight and still got freaked out). It was one of those "this is really unpleasant but also kind of fun"-type things. Of course, that doesn't really work as well since you also have Poe, but maybe on days when you and B are both home, one of you can get him to sleep and sit in the car with him? (I also sat in the parking lot at Target and the grocery store, not always in front of my house...)<br /><br />Also, daytime sleep consolidates after nighttime sleep, so it makes sense that his naps stink, because his nighttime sleep is still so clearly immature. I'm sure that was Gracie's problem, too. Her single afternoon nap did not get consistently good until after her second birthday, to be totally honest, and even then, she had a bad habit of waking too early, falling asleep in the car when we were running errands, and refusing to nap. That just got better around the time Katie was born. Now she almost always takes a solid two-hour nap. (she won't do that tomorrow because she psychically sensed that I said that, but anyway.)<br /><br />Good luck. A bad sleeper is just brutal. and YES, I cannot WAIT until Grace is a sophomore in college and I can go in her room at 4:30 am and throw all the lights on. it will require me to be up at 4:30, but oh my god it will be so worth it.Crabby Apple Seed:https://www.blogger.com/profile/14740728095481518027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6833980002201342292.post-42530607521801172992011-04-05T21:30:06.439-07:002011-04-05T21:30:06.439-07:00Might sound weird, but have you thought of reiki? ...Might sound weird, but have you thought of reiki? It's supposed to work well on children and for all sorts of issues, sleep problems included.Hollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15150124597323368144noreply@blogger.com