Nap suggestions?
 

Please be gentle with me, mamas....i feel like SUCH a ROOKIE!

As I recall with our big kids when they were little, I am just "rolling with" the kids' own rhythms. We are not ( & never have been) a super structured family. Baby is almost 9 months and toddler just over 2.5 years. Some of you may recall me stressing over toddler's diffisulties getting to sleep at bedtime. We DID quit doing a nap and then he started going to bed more easily at night.. well, now the last few weeks he seems very tired during the day. I would like to try to get him to nap after lunch. Mostly, i hang out with the littles in the living room and kitchen/dining room...and end up holding the baby while she naps after she falls asleep nursing. I had been laying her in her swing, but she has outgrown te swing...i have been very hesitant to try and move her to her pack & pkay in the bedroom for fear of her waking up :shifty

Question....especially if your baby and toddler were in a shared room...how did you get them to nap simultaneously?

I know for our toddler, his i creased need for sleep lately is likely temporary...but even if i could institute a "quiet time"? :shrug3

I feel really gun shy like i am setting myself for a struggle...but i know i could REALLY use that time to accomplish some things:phew

TIA

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My kids napping never really looked like them both napping without me unless they happened to fall asleep .You could try a quiet time in big bed with both =maybe reading a story or having some soft music playing and then getting up if they both do fall asleep

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Mmm. Yeah. Sometimes my baby and toddler nap simultaneously. But it's all unique isn't it, I struggle to imagine I have any advice. :lol
Probably 51%+ of the time my 2.75 yr old falls asleep by himself, late in the afternoon, mostly on the couch. 49%- of the time he nurses in the mid-afternoon and falls asleep and I carry him up to the master bedroom and lay him on the bed there. My 1 yr old will nurse to sleep and then I will lay her on the bed in our other bedroom. At 9 months that would have been a floor bed. (Putting them over the sides and down into a pack and play seems more likely to wake them up?) Then I grab a diaper in case the toddler needs changing (so I won't have to go back into that room) and close the door.
Simultaneous naps don't let you get things done, but maybe one thing. :P~ :giggle
My eldest always napped on my back, my middlest napped on my back maybe 60% of the time. My youngest naps on my back a minority of the time. But it is still the best guarantee of me being able to get things done.

See, I think I gave zero useful advice on how to get the toddler to nap haha.

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at that stage, I found that I needed the quiet and time time as much as the kids. :lol So all three of us (mom, baby and toddler) would go in to the master bedroom and have a nice quiet cuddly time together. We usually read a story, then I nursed baby to sleep while toddler cuddled on the other side and sometimes toddler and I would also fall asleep, sometimes we wouldn't and just enjoyed the cuddle time together. :heart

Once baby was nursed to sleep I was able to unlatch and let her nap and then either get up with toddler or, best case scenario toddler also fell asleep in that time and I would either go get something done or just sleep myself. :yes

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I have a 4 and 2 year old as well as a 7 month old. They nap all at the same time. This is our schedule:

11 am lunch
1130 nurse baby
12 pm Remind 4 year old to use the bathroom, fresh diapers for the younger 2
Quick snuggle and carry 4 year old to his room
Put baby on my back and snuggle 2 year old. We listen to soothing music and bounce on a yoga ball til they're both asleep.
Carry sleeping 2 year old to his room with his brother
Take baby to our bed where we sleep-nurse

It's a lot but it works for us and everyone gets a much needed nap! At bedtime I nurse the baby to sleep while my husband sits with the boys as they go to sleep

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It's been awhile. My youngest is 11 but I remember laying down, nursing the baby, and reading to my toddler until he fell asleep. I would usually fall asleep, too, though. :giggle