how to get her to nap in her crib and not her swing!!!????

[cchavez]

Mia is almost 5.5 months and she still naps in her swing. She has always slept in her crib at nite.....Right now her naps are not that great and I fear they will get worse in the crib but she is getting too big for her swing....any suggestions/advice please!!! TIA!!!

[mommyoftwo]

If you figure it out let me know. Linnea slept in the swing because of her acid reflux and now she is 9 months old and refuses to sleep in the crib at all. She slept in the crib for a while and then she got sick so we put her in the swing to sooth her. Now she refuses to sleep in the crib. She can be sound asleep and if you put her in the crib she wakes up immediately. Sorry, not meaning to hijack your thread. I just feel your pain.

[pb&j]

If she sleeps well in her crib at night, try using the same routine for naps that you use at bedtime. For bedtime, DS gets a bath, a brief trip out to the front porch, and I read him a book while he nurses, then it's into the crib. For naps, we don't do the bath, but I do try to get him a little fresh air, then quiet time while nursing. Before bedtime and before nap nursings take place in his room, with the blinds closed.

HTH!


-Ry,
mom to Emma, stillborn 11/04/04
and Max, 01/05/06

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[shilo]

oh, i so hear you on this one. sam would only nap in the swing for eons (more like 11mos ;p). what finally changed it for us was traveling for a week and not having any other choice. it basically required some CIO just like night sleep did for us. my ds is one of those super alert, happy, mellow fellow's who just doesn't like to be out of the loop long enough to sleep, so it has always been a battle. don't know how your dd is about sleep, or if you are willing to try some form of CIO, for us it was the only thing that worked (and yes, i started with pantly and hogg back when he was 2 and 3 months old, but nothing worked for us until i got desperate enough to start trying some CIO at 7.5 or 8 months, YMMV). the other thing that comes to mind is blackout curtains. we had them in our bedroom where the swing was/where we were getting consistent naps, but not in the nursery. when i put blackout curtains in the nursery, he started sleeping in longer in the mornings and for naps.

good luck, lori
Sam 5/19/05 How lucky I am that you chose me.

[almostamom]

>If she sleeps well in her crib at night, try using the same
>routine for naps that you use at bedtime. For bedtime, DS
>gets a bath, a brief trip out to the front porch, and I read
>him a book while he nurses, then it's into the crib. For
>naps, we don't do the bath, but I do try to get him a little
>fresh air, then quiet time while nursing. Before bedtime and
>before nap nursings take place in his room, with the blinds
>closed.
>
>HTH!
>
>
>-Ry,
>mom to Emma, stillborn 11/04/04
>and Max, 01/05/06
>
>http://www.windsorpeak.com/dc/user_files/32812.gif
>http://b1.lilypie.com/aKGqm5/.png[/img] ([img)

This is exactly what we started doing about a year ago. At that time, DS would only nap in his swing. A mama here recommended using our bedtime routine and it worked wonderfully.

~Linda~
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[sidmand]

I also recommend doing the nighttime routine at naps. We though we were doing that, but turned out we were missing a couple of components (putting him in his sleepsack, giving him a bottle) that made a big difference.

Also, if you aren't already, start transitioning by putting the swing IN the nursery. We did this for a little while. We actually also did the trip thing. We happened to be going away around the same time we knew he was really really too big to be taking naps in his swing (like 7 1/2 months though!). And he ended up doing pretty well with naps while we were gone and we just never went back.

Debbie
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[clc053103]

I could have written the original post! DS was great crib sleeper at night- but loved to nap in the swing only. A 1 week trip to my parents, when the baby rental place had no swings available, was a forced cure. IT took a little more rocking (like a bedtime routine) and some patience- (and occasionally a nap scheduled around a car trip!) but when we returned, we dismantled the swing for good! He really never cried more than a minute or two in the process either.

I hope you get through this quickly. I remember being SOOO stressed about it but cold turkey really did work!

Courtney