Naps for Baby-Preschoolers

Throughout each day with your baby, you will follow an eat/wake/sleep cycle. This means you have many naps each day. As your baby gets older, you start to drop naps. Naps continue into toddler years and even preschooler years. Use this page to find all info you need on naps!

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The Complete Guide to Troubleshooting Short Baby Naps

Absolutely everything you need to know to fix short baby naps and get baby taking good naps. Know common reasons for short naps and how to fix them. This post will walk you through learning how to troubleshoot short naps. As you learn to troubleshoot naps, you will learn tools to troubleshoot the next nap problem with this baby and future babies. You will learn how to help others troubleshoot when they have troubles. You will also learn how to troubleshoot in general so you are more prepared to face the parenting issues that will come in toddler, tween, and teen years.

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My Sleep Hierarchy For Newborns

How to prioritize and balance your baby sleep schedule and sleep training for your newborn. Get peace of mind sleep training your baby with these newborn sleep tips. This is a MUST READ if you have a newborn baby.

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Nap Routines

Having a routine before each nap will help your child know it is nap time. I have lots of ideas for nap routines for you here as well as tips on how to set up a solid nap routine.

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Set Nap Times

At some point, it will make more sense for your baby to have set nap times than to watch the clock and wake windows so closely. Learn more about what that looks like here.

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Dropping Naps: A Quick Reference

As your baby gets older, you will wonder when you should be dropping naps. When to drop naps for babies and preschoolers. Find out when to drop the very first nap all the way through the preschooler dropping naps all together! Guidance for dropping all naps.

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When Do Kids Stop Napping?

Of course your child will not nap forever. The day will come your child will stop napping. You might drop the nap, but you will wan to switch it to rest time. Read about what age to drop the nap and what rest time looks like here!

 The Babywise Mom Nap Guide

The Babywise Mom Nap Guide

The Babywise Mom Nap Guide eBook helps you establish successful naps from birth through the preschool years. It is a great resource!

Gary Ezzo, author of On Becoming Babywise, said: “Whether it is talking about establishing good nap behavior or offering solutions to sleep disruptions, this is a resource that Dr. Robert Bucknam and I trust. The book is well laid out and answers just about every question a new or seasoned mom might have about babies, toddlers and sleep. We view this as more than a nap guided; it is a resource of encouragement that comes with compassion.”

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Throughout each day with your baby, you will follow an eat/wake/sleep cycle. This means you have many naps each day. As your baby gets older, you start to drop naps. Naps continue into toddler years and even preschooler years. Use this page to find all info you need on naps!

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