Anyone on second baby struggling to get three naps?
Tips please! With my son this was all very easy as a) everything was arranged around him and b) he fell asleep easily and everywhere.
My daughter can go 4+ hours without even looking sleepy while my son used to fall asleep where you put him down if he was tired. She needs to be properly put to bed or in a pram/car (but the vehicles must stay in motion!). If I manage a morning and afternoon nap though, there’s just no way to get a late afternoon/early evening one in.
My son is coming home from nursery, I need to cook, then we do bedtime. When she was smaller she took an evening nap for 20/30 mins just after that but now we’re staring to put her down at 7.30 we can’t do that.
This is with a totally 50:50 partner too. He does pick ups and looks after son while I cook (or vice versa) and then we alternate bath and storytime with our son after all having dinner together.
As she’s a very happy and non cranky baby I don’t know whether to just let it go and focus on making the two naps decent ones…but there’s a niggle saying she needs more day time sleep.
Any ideas/similar situations?
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Yes but we're still on 4 naps. The nursery run often induces a really early but short first nap so need 4 in the day. Life doesn't revolve around her nap schedule like my first did so it's catching naps on the go whenever possible
I’m in the same situation. My eldest is 4 and I do the school pick up and husband does the drop offs in the morning.
I found it very hard to get that 3rd nap in before bed at 7pm/7.30pn. So the days he only has 2 naps I put him down earlier. I also try ( not always the case ) to ensure if it’s gonna be a 2 nap day I put him down for those naps when he is not too tired so they are decent naps. I also find sometimes my youngest just doesn’t wanna do a 3rd nap because he wants to be playing and getting involved with his older sister after school.
It’s not easy when you have 2+ and doing school or nursery picks up and drop offs.
We are on 3 naps but need to be upstairs in my bedroom on me. If he falls asleep downstairs while our oldest is home any little noise wakes him. Feels like I'm spending the majority of my day locked in my bedroom
We’ve been on 2 naps for about a month or more now. We only have 3 naps if it’s a very early wake up. x
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