This baby is my third, and we have had our share of nap time challenges over the years, but never this one. Around 45 minutes into each nap she wakes up and screams. when I finally go in there she has pooped. After changing her, she won't go back down. I can't CIO because she is in poop and this is really interfering with things because when nap time is done at 2P it is a loooong rest of the afternoon until bedtime. Has anyone else conquered this issue?
**as a f/u, I wish it were easy enough to wait for her to go and then put her down. Sometimes I can do that in the morning, but I can't predict it in the afternoon. This afternoon she was falling asleep so I had no choice but to but her to bed. Usually she doesn't go until she falls asleep. Maybe it is some kind of relaxation thing. I'll try to change her in her crib, but she is on the lowest level so that will mean a lot of bending for a very wiggly baby.
I'm guessing she eats before she goes down, and then poops exactly 45 minutes later?
Like clockwork.
Nothing you can do about that, huh? :-)
I agree with SH and GrammaRocks. Change right there, no light, no talking, no picking her up. THEN, once she's clean, she'll go to sleep.
Let her stay up until she poops and then put her down for a nap since this seems to be her time to do it?
I was able to change mine and have them go back to sleep by keeping the room dark with a darkening shade, not turning on lights, not talking or taking them out of their crib, changing them quickly, patting their back a minute or so while saying "shhhhhh" and quietly walking out and closing the door, and not responding to the crying since I knew they were OK. This helped them to learn self-soothing techniques that carried over to bedtime.
Either put her down for her nap after she poops, or change her and then let her go back to sleep.
When you go in to change her... do you talk to her and engage with her and what not? If so, then you are waking her up.
Try... when you go in there to change her... do it as quietly as possible, do not talk to her, be as swift & stealth about it as you can. And change her right there in the crib. Don't lift her out or take her to a changing table etc.
Then leave.
Keep the room dark.
With my kids when they were babies, that is what I did. And they'd continue to sleep/nap.
Even if/when pooping at night, just use a little tiny flashlight, to aid you while you change the diaper. That is what I did.
She can't help it, she is a baby. Pooping when sleeping startles them.
Or, put her to nap, after she has pooped. If she is 'regular' about when she poops.
Can you wait and put her down an hour later after she poops?
