Why is she doing this? Nap related

DD does this thing called the "boom booms" when she gets tired. It always meant "i want to go to bed". LAtey though she'll do it, I'll put her in her crib and she'll lay in there babbling by herself, for sometimes over an hour. She's not cranking or crying or anything but I sit here wondering, is she going to start screaming to get out or fall asleep??? Usually she ends up falling asleep. I feel like if she doesn't want to sleep she doesn't need to be in there and I can be spending time with her and lay her down an hour later. But on the other hand, I think maybe she wants to be alone. Is that weird??? I guess I don't need to be all up in her face all day long like I thought

I just feel like it's time wasted almost.

Re: Why is she doing this? Nap related

I guess no one knows why she is doing this

This time she fell asleep after an hour.

Re: Why is she doing this? Nap related

Maybe she does want time to unwind to herself. I know it takes liek 30-1 hour for myself to fall asleep, maybe she's doing the same thing.

If she's not crying, she's fine, i'd leave her. Plus you can do something for you with that time!

Re: Why is she doing this? Nap related

Unfortunately, my DS is not the type to sit in his crib and babble happily to himself, but he does have times where I will be playing with him and he will walk away from me and go sit in a corner alone and babble to himself or play by himself.

Or I will be reading a book to him and he will close the book, scooch away from me to the other end of the couch and pick something else up to play with, back to me.

So, I think it's definitely possible that she wants "down time" and that maybe she does not want the overstimulation.

If she is not cranky and she is still getting enough sleep, I would just leave her be in her crib.

Re: Why is she doing this? Nap related

Is she taking one or two naps per day? Reilly has started doing this too and I think she is going to do one nap soon. She used to go in for nap one at 9:30am and sleep for about an hour. As we speak, she has been babbling in her crib for 55 minutes. On the days that I need to swap her with DH while on my way to work, she only gets one nap... she goes down at 10:30 or 11 and sleeps for about 2 hours. Maybe it's time to cut out a nap for Syd?