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Support Group - New and Expectant Parents SFPOM New Parents - general
discussion 1/24/2013 10:15 am - 2/9/2013

1. 9 month old nap advice -- No CIO (sftwinmommy)
2. Comment: 9 month old nap advice -- No CIO (kaluzoo)

1. 9 month old nap advice -- No CIO
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sftwinmommy - 2/8/2013 8:47 am

 How do you (or your nanny) put your 9 month old twins
 down for a nap by yourself? We have to
 bottle-feed/rock/hold our babies till they get super
 drowsy/fall asleep. It's really difficult to do this
 with just one adult. Right now, our nanny uses a baby
 swing for one of the twins as an extra hand while she
 feeds rocks the other down. But I'm worried about what
 will happen when they are (very soon) too big for the
 swing! What do you use as an extra hand? Are their
 other swings for bigger babies that you would
 recommend? The problem is that they both crawl very
 fast and pull themselves up on everything, so there's
 no good place to put one baby while rocking the other
 one to sleep in the nursery. They also get upset if you
 leave them alone in a different room (i.e. in a play
 yard to go elsewhere). Any thoughts/recommendations
 would be helpful. We don't want to do CIO for naps.

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 2. kaluzoo says...
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 2/8/2013 1:45 pm
 
 We transitioned to putting them down in their cribs
 awake. We turn on lullabies, sing, read books until
 they both get sleepy. No CIO, but also only hands-free
 entertainment. Many days we can walk away and they
 happily "talk" to one another until they go to sleep. 
 I also give them their stuffed animals in their cribs
 and then take them away once they finally fall asleep
 (their stuffed animals are big so I don't comfortable
 with them sleeping w/ them). We are relentless about
 the timing of the morning nap (9/9:15am) and now that
 they are used to the routine it's rarely a problem -
 they stay down for an hour or talk to one another if
 they wake up early. Afternoon nap I've given up - we
 push them around in the stroller until they are
 sleeping ("we" being me or nanny). My boys are also 9
 months. Good luck!
 Email author: sarahchandler at gmail.com
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