One nap?

[judecorp]

Somebody wouldn't take a nap this morning. Someone named Punk. She got up a little later than normal thanks to an ounce of milk that she left in her wee hours of morning bottle - I slipped it to her at 6:30 and she fell back asleep for another 40 minutes or so. Awesome. But she was rubbing her eyes and yawning and clearly tired for her normal naptime of 9ish and I set about to put her to bed. After an hour of trying everything - swaddling, no swaddling, rocking, no rocking, paci, no paci, letting her jabber in the crib until it turned to screaming and "mum mum mum mum" - I got her back up and said, "Okay, let's go play." And she did, she totally held it together until lunch (11:30) and proceeded to get a little crabby when I was cleaning up lunch but nothing too major.

And she just went down for a nap in approximately 8 seconds. I have hopes that she will sleep a long time to make up for the lack of morning nap, but I am not putting any stock in those hopes because I will undoubtedly be shot down in an hour when she is awake and screaming because she has missed me.

Perhaps I should make some lunch while I have this blissful break. I was counting on that morning nap, you know? Fried.

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p.s. Thank you for all of the suggestions for the child care thing. I'm a little leery of moving Punk to a center for last minute child care for a couple of reasons (1. she's a really routine-oriented kid and I wouldn't want to stress her out, and 2. she's not fully vaccinated) although I would consider the substitute-nanny route (rexlezard especially, seeing as he knows Punk and is a whiz with kids). We'll probably end up just taking the days off because I am Anal Psycho Mom... I already cleared it with my boss who said I could borrow against time off I don't have yet or take it unpaid, whichever I'd prefer. So maybe I will take a couple of days especially since August 12 is Punk's neurologist appt and I was going to be there anyway. Who knows?

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[sassywoman.livejournal.com]

We have been trying to drop the morning nap for some time now but somebody insists on waking up for the day between 5:30-6AM about 90% of the time so she is wiped by 10AM. If I push her to take a nap until after lunch she sleeps maybe 90 minutes tops and that is not enough for one day IMO. Pulling hair out here ...