Super Nap!
pamelamyers | October 26, 2010
I really have been thinking lately that Sam is ready to move to only one nap per day. She has been sleeping really well at night, she goes to bed at 7:00 and doesn’t usually wake up until around 7:00 a.m. but she fights her naps so hard! She has never been a great napper, but she has had long periods where she was taking both a morning and an afternoon nap pretty regularly. Lately though, she has been fighting naps altogether. And when she does nap, it is really short, maybe 45 minutes to an hour. And I usually can only get her to take one nap per day now. So, I thought even though she is a little young for it, maybe she is ready to move to one nap. After all, I stopped napping completely at one year of age, so what should I expect from my daughter? These last two weeks have been tough with my mom being away. Sam always seems to nap better for her Grandmom. Mark could barely get her to sleep at all last week, and I haven’t had much luck either. To make things worse, for some reason, for the last week or two she has been waking up at around 5:20 or so in the morning crying. It only lasts for a minute or two, but she is crying nonetheless. I have no idea why. But the last few nights she stopped, thankfully.
Today, my little girl was a napping champ! She woke up at around 6:00 a.m. and I ignored her babbling in her crib like I usually do (unless she is out and out crying, she gets ignored until at least 6:45). I listened to her for a little while then must have fallen asleep. I woke up at 7:30 and realized I needed to go and get her, but when I peeked in her room, she was fast asleep! She must have gone down again after playing for a while. She was awake all day, I tried a morning nap, but she wouldn’t take it. I put her down again at about 1:30 like I have been for her afternoon nap and she slept for 2 1/2 hours! It was so great. If she would do that every day, I’d be fine with the one nap schedule.
One other thing she has been doing that is super cute is that she has become very attached to one of her toys. She has this little stuffed bush baby that I bought on a whim when Mark and I were in Ocean City, MD the last time, quite a few years ago. I just thought it was cute and of course imagined that one day my baby could play with it. Every morning when Sam wakes up she is clinging to his long tail and I have noticed that when she wakes up from her naps now, she looks all around the crib until she finds him, she then grabs hold of him, and won’t let him go for quite some time. I was wondering if she’d ever get attached to any of her toys, and bush baby might be it. Here is what he looks like.
And because she is just too adorable, here is another recent picture of Sam, looking cute as always.
