{"id":222,"date":"2013-02-12T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T12:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T21:43:20","slug":"the-needed-nap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/12\/the-needed-nap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Needed Nap"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been an extremely lucky mommy to have two girls that nap well.\u00a0 Both girls took 2, 2 hours naps a day until they were around 2 years old (Honeybun\u00a0stopped when Sugarplum was born and Sugarplum stopped when we moved back to Florida).\u00a0 Even now, both girls still lay down every day and I expect them to lay quietly for at least an hour and a half.\u00a0 While Honeybun\u00a0does not sleep every day, and sometimes has to be reminded to lie down and be quiet, if she actually does lay down she will usually sleep at least 2 hours.<\/p>\n

We have a pretty easy, standard nap routine.\u00a0 Girls use the potty (then Sugarplum \u00a0gets a diaper).\u00a0 They climb in their beds, get covered up and each girl has a special song\/sound machine they use.\u00a0 I give them a kiss and \u201cI love you\u201d (sometimes a \u201cnight-night, sweet girl\u201d) and that\u2019s that.\u00a0 Done.<\/p>\n

I get a lot of unsolicited advice about how my 4 \u00bd year old does not need a nap anymore and it\u2019s probably affecting her night time sleeping.\u00a0 If only these people actually knew Honeybun.\u00a0 We put the girls to bed around 8 and Honeybun\u00a0sleeps until Sugarplum wakes her up after 7 in the morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure if Sugarplum didn\u2019t wake Honeybun\u00a0up, she would sleep at least a bit longer. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0also becomes a raging lunatic monster by dinner time if she doesn\u2019t lay down for a nap.\u00a0 She becomes aggressive, argumentative and generally no fun to be around.\u00a0 Really, nearly stranger?\u00a0 MY 4 \u00bd year old doesn\u2019t need a nap?\u00a0 Maybe YOURS didn\u2019t, but MINE sure as heck does.<\/p>\n

I should be honest, though. \u00a0It’s not just Honeybun\u00a0that needs a nap. \u00a0I need it too. \u00a0Working a 24-hr a day job caring for two energetic girls while growing another and trying to stay healthy is exhausting and\u00a0I know my glorious 2 hours of daily nap time isn\u2019t going to last forever (I\u2019m convinced Sugarplum is going to give up her afternoon nap before Honeybun\u00a0does) but believe me, I\u2019m taking full advantage while I can.\u00a0 I truly enjoy my two hours each day in which I get alone time to shower then sit down and be quiet.\u00a0 Sugarplum is very sensitive to noise and since her room is adjacent to the kitchen and every noise in our house echoes throughout, no cleaning or chores for me.\u00a0 Darn, I guess it will have to get done another time. \u00a0I hear the couch calling my name!<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been an extremely lucky mommy to have two girls that nap well.\u00a0 Both girls took 2, 2 hours naps a day until they were around 2 years old (Honeybun\u00a0stopped when Sugarplum was born and Sugarplum stopped when we moved back to Florida).\u00a0 Even now, both girls still lay down every day and I expect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}