My goal for October is to establish a nap time routine. I don’t much mind where she sleeps or when specifically, but I want to figure out a general time of day when she takes longer naps. This week I am starting to see a pattern. She takes one long nap after her second feeding in the morning and a long nap after her first lunch. She also takes a short nap about an hour after she wakes up on the morning and right before her last feeding of the day. So let’s break that down- short nap around 7:30 am, long nap around 10:00 am, long nap around 1:00 pm, and short nap around 6:00 pm. The next item up is where is she going to nap. It’s easy to have her fall asleep on me and sleep for hours, but that’s not a good solution, especially since I will be going back to work next month.

So far she likes her long morning nap on my bed and her long afternoon nap in the pack n play.

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She does not like sleeping on the couch if there is a good show on TV (such as Jersey Shore)!

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We have just implemented the crib as the afternoon nap spot. Okay so we just started it today and it lasted until a skateboarder rolled down the street and Jinx yelled at him! Being married to Scotty means that we don’t monitor the baby with a standard noise machine, we monitor on camera! We both have an app on our iPads that allows us to watch her while she “naps”.

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