Contact naps

Any 12 month olds still contact napping?? Are we still trying to get them in the cot? Not sure what to do anymore

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Will be 1 on Tuesday and we are in the exact same boat! X

Me & my LG still exclusively contact nap (she does sleep in the car as well) Tbh I haven’t tried to get her down in the cot since she was a few weeks old but I definitely think it would be a struggle! She does sleep in the cot at night, although wakes multiple times overnight still.

At this point I’ve decided to just carry on until she wants to stop but I’m not going back to work so I do have that luxury. However she starts nursery soon & apparently that can help lessen their liking for contact napping as they can’t do it there 🤷‍♀️

We still contact nap! Always have! We also co sleep at night. I’m back at work so she does go to nursery 4 days a week now and she will sleep in the crib there but her naps are VERY short, sometimes 3 a day because they’re so short. Days I’m with her we usually just do one long contact nap in the middle of the day. And she will do anywhere from 1-4 hours in her crib at bedtime now, but always comes in with us eventually, almost always before 10pm haha

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