Do your babies nap on their own or do you guys have to rock them and stuff?

Absolutely not 😅. Lately he has even been having trouble napping with help...today we've gotten a couple of 15 min contact naps since he woke up 5 hours ago 🫠. If we put him down drowsy but awake he just wakes himself up fully and plays until we go get him 🤣. Even if we follow his wake windows.

same! It's so hard. I feel like my days consist of trying to get him to nap lol

Mine too! Starting to dread mornings 🙃. But hopefully it improves soon!

So glad to know I'm not alone!

He fights his sleep! Longer wake windows now but naps from 40 min-2 hours. The back to back 49 min naps kill me though as I spend more time trying to get him to sleep

right some people that I talk to make me feel like I'm crazy. Someone said "no my baby just falls asleep when her wake window is up after tummy time" I was like what am I doing wrong

Yes lol. It just depends. The moment she starts yawning, I swaddle her, give her a pacifier, and either put her in her bassinet, mamaroo, or have to rock her to sleep. Sometimes she falls asleep on her own, other times it takes 40 minutes 🙃

can you explain more what you mean by “I learned the hard way…” I’m a FTM and my baby falls asleep nursing for naps and nighttime sleep. It’s just what’s easiest for us right now, but I keep hearing people say it’s bad and I’m not sure why

it's not bad, per se, but it is a habit that becomes harder to break later on. Meaning it's harder to teach an older baby/toddler to self soothe and fall asleep independently when they've never had to do it before.

Mine use to take my tiddie to soothe himself to sleep now he just sleeps on his own (he’s two months) I’ll rub his back sometimes if I see he’s yawning and fighting it but otherwise he just falls asleep for his naps on his own

Use huckleberry paid version for the wake window sweet spot. I cracked the feeding to sleep habit using the controlled check and console method and she goes to sleep with just a few whimpers now

Mine doesn’t take a paci but she sucks her hand to soothe when she’s going for a sleep

If he's not in his Love to dream sleep sack, it's SO MUCH work.

Personally, we use a nap routine when she starts to get sleepy which ends with my husband or I having her sleep on our chest for about 15/20 min before we put her down in her crib. She stirs a little bit but will grab her fist and suck on it and be good. I also pat her butt for a little bit as she does that to help soothe her a bit faster.

I read that sleep sack or swaddle is a cue it’s sleep time. Also unless they are rolling swaddling is useful because sleep drive is so low that it’s tough for them to go back to sleep afterwards if a startle reflex wakes them

Aren't we suppose to be transitioning our of swaddles soon? I read that by week 12 no more swaddling to sleep.

Serious question though, FTM, how did you teach your baby to self sooth themselves to sleep for a nap?

transition out when they start showing signs of trying to roll over. We transitioned by wrapping his Velcro swaddles under his armpits for a week or so, and then doing a love to dream sleep sack for about a week. We still use the love to dream for naps, but he's in just a sleeper for nighttime now

mine just started doing it out of the blue 🤷‍♀️ I assume it has something to do with daycare and how she kind of has to since she probably doesn't get picked up right away like she does at home when she's upset.

She naps on her own. We trained her around 5 weeks. It was hard but now she is good on her own!

what did you guys do

We would just have to rock her to sleep at first and keep trying to put her down. She would wake up and then we would do it over again and eventually it worked. What actually helped the most and made it a game changer was when we swaddled her, putting white noise on and just setting her down in her crib. Eventually she got it. I put a humidifier in the room with a couple of drops of frida baby lavender oil