2.15.2011

Boycott

I need some advice ya'll, those with kids or without please lend an ear.  Although having kids would probably help your advice, I want it anyway.  Little bit has decided to quit a good nap.  She was napping about a hour in the morning (8:30-9:30) a hour or more in the midday (11:15-12:15) and a late afternooner around 3-4:30 or 5.  Well has she thrown me for a loop (literally, loopy)  She has been napping for 30 minutes twice a day.  Ya'll EFF this.  I mean I know she not gonna nap forever but for $&!*s SAKE how am I supposed to get anything done?  Not to mention she is mobile now so the ONLY time I can complete a task is when she is sleeping.  Ugh why is this happening?  See the bad part is that if she is awake for more than 3 hours at a time, she melts.  Like she has to nap now ohmygod mom i may die if I don't sleep kinda nap.  So I put her down and before I can do 3 things, shes up.  Well let me let you into our schedule lack of naps today.  She got up at 7 and since she has been pushing that early nap back I decided we would skip it.  I went to get her from Mother's Day Out and I am informed she has napped for what? 30 minutes.  Are you kidding me?  By the time we get home (15 minutes away) she is sooo tired so I make a bottle and put her down.  She falls asleep within 10 minutes and shocker, is up 30 minutes later.  I let her cry for 36 minutes.  I had too, she was so tired she couldn't even lift her head.  She fell back asleep for 20 more minutes.  I am here to say that a 9 month old should be sleeping 15 hours a day (12 at night) to feel good and be well rested.  Well what the hell is a 40 minute nap with 30 of crying then?  I am frustrated because when she sleeps well she feels well.  She sleeps every night from 7-7 so why is this happening!!! And just before it starts, no she is not sick, teething (1 just came through), or sad.  Just give me some advice ya'll.  I always have to call my sister for the "don't get her" speech cause I cave in and go get her so hopefully you guys can help hold me back as well!
On another note, she is really cute... This was her Valentines' get up.  And she got to eat a pine cone!  What a day!

6 comments:

  1. My Gehrig is not a napper! Never has been! He is just not a sleeper period! But my Ella! My sweet Ella! Has always been a good napper/sleeper. But my 9 months she was only taking 2 naps a day. It just may be time to rework the schedule. But whatever you do, don't get discouraged! Being at home is a tough job and you just got to do what works for you! And what works for you and what works for me will not always be the same thing.

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  2. I think it was around that age that we cut down to 2 naps a day. And, you know what I am going to say... let her CIO. She's not quite old enough to make her own decisions. :)

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  3. HA! You know I am not the one to ask about sleep and schedules! We free style it over here in Grizaland! But she sure does look like her cousin in those pics!!

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  4. My Presh! Tell Rosa Parks to sit the eff down and while she's at it, take a nap!! ;) me love, me see ya soon!!!

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  5. You are nuts... If she sleeps 12 hours a night who gives a rats... Get a kid fence, we have one on standby for the Fennster once he gets moving.

    Weags.

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  6. She's ready to rework that schedule. Rutledge was this age when he cut down to 2 naps a day and it bout' killed me! I was so used to 3-4 naps a day:( But, he kept the 2 naps a day until about 15-16 months, at that time he started MMO 2 mornings a week, which was perfect timing to move into the 1 big nap a day. Hope she's doing better with this!

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