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12wk old not sleeping during the day

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floops · 17/03/2006 13:47

Hello everyone.

I have a 12wk old dd who will not nap during the day. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. S he is our third. The first two napped no probs and still went down at 7pm - 7am getting up once to feed.
Dd too has the same nightime pattern but I just can't get her to have a daytime nap. Any suggestions?

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TheBlonde · 17/03/2006 13:58

Hi, my DS now 13 mths refused naps pretty much for the whole of the first year apart from the occasional in buggy nap

Can you just try quiet time in the cot for 30 mins and then maybe she will get the idea?

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floops · 17/03/2006 14:27

Hi TheBlonde,

have tried just about everything. If we arfe on the move i.e. the school run she will catnap for ten mins only. When at home I have tried rocking her to sleep, letting her fall asleep at the breast, taking her out in the car. I usually
take her upstairs in the dark bedroom (i.e. like bedtime)and feed her prior to trying to get her to go to sleep. I've tried putting her in her cot and leaving her. Tried it in the bouncer. Fast running out of ideas.
I did not want to really accept the fact that maybe she is just not going to be a baby that naps in the day. I can't see how she can manage to keep going for so long. She is not fretful but
quite content.

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Snips · 17/03/2006 14:30

Ds2 was like this..he hardly had any day time naps till he was about seven months and now sleeps for a couple of hours every lunchtime. I tried everything and nothing seemed to work. Not much help I know, but just to say that in time the naps may come.

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Kathy1972 · 17/03/2006 14:31

Hi Floops.
Mine just didn't, except sometimes after a feed for 20 mins or so. When she started at nursery aged 6 mo she started getting a lot more tired with all the stimulation and now has 1 or 2 a day, total an hour and a half. Like yours though, she seemed perfectly contented, so I let it go (though it would have been so nice to have had the time to get on with things!!!)

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floops · 17/03/2006 14:36

Thanks for your responses. It's good to know that naps may come at a later date. I thought that if she was not prone to them now she may never be. She is due to start nursery at 9mths when I return to work so maybe they will start then if not before. I'll try to stop worrying now and accept my contented baby as she is.