How do co-sleepers handle naps?

I've always wondered this. We cosleep with Livi, which we :love However, we can't do this for her naps. She is now scooting everywhere and we just don't feel that its safe to have her on our bed, and we can't lay down with her for every nap. My MIL keeps her while I work, so we have to be sure we are doing the same thing at both houses for consistency anyway. This week we have transitioned her to napping in her crib, which has gone wonderfully so far. Last night she even started out in her bed for bedtime too and stayed there until 2am :banana I slept on the couch, because being across the house from her was too far away for my sanity :lol (figures)

Anyway, how do you (as cosleepers) handle naps?

My oldest often slept in his crib during his naps. He would usually fall asleep nursing, then I'd lay him in the crib. That was pretty much the only time it ever got used. :lol However, Elijah and Abby nap in the swing. Elijah is 2, and still loves to sleep in the swing. That was much easier for me, because I didn't have to worry about him falling or crawling off the bed, and I could typically put him in there and walk away and he went straight to sleep. So, I've been doing the same thing with Abby, and she seems to sleep better in there too.

I have co-slept with both my kids. They have always laid down in their crib to nap and to sleep at night. They don't come unto the room at night until after their first feeding.

I love it this way. It makes a very smooth transition to sleeping all night in their own beds, both of them slept all night in their own beds when they stopped nursing at about a 13-14 months. Plus, sleeping independently has never been an issue because they have always gone to sleep on their own.

On days that I want to nap too, I will lay with them in my bed. Or sometimes as a special treat they are allowed to go to sleep in my bed. This has worked really well for us.

With Phoenix, she slept in her crib or in a playpen for naps. We co-slept with her at night for about 6 months, then she transitioned into a crib next to our bed.

With Griffin, co-sleeping is more of a necessity than a choice, he won't stay asleep without someone beside him (this has been since day 1). He'll rouse every 10 minutes or so and reach out to make sure someone is beside him, if not, then he's up. We've tried transitioning him to something for naps, but it's always a no-go, so I just always lay beside him for naps on a bed or on a blanket on the floor. I usually have something I need to get finished that's paperwork or computer work anyway, so I just do that while I'm laying down.

We would put Natalie in our bed for naps up until about 9 months. We just surrounded her with pillows. At around 9 months, we started putting her in the crib for naps.

Kate likes to touch me when she's sleeping, so she generally either in my arms or laying right next to me. It doesn't make things easy, but oh well... She wakes up the second we put her in her crib or in our bed if we aren't laying down next to her, so it isn't much of an option.

my kids cosleep half the night. They sleep in their own beds until about midnight or 2am, and then come in with us when they wake up.

Naps are taken whereever the kids fall :lol
My kids are the types that play themselves to sleep. Lily is asleep on the floor right now, int he middle of a big circle of toys. LOL.

We always taught our kids as soon as they could move much on their own, how to get off the bed on their bellies, feet first. Usually they only moved around a bunch when they were awake. When TEENY TINY, they slept in their bassinet or co-sleeper for naps and early night time. After 5 mths or so, they slept in the bed. Mine also liked to nurse or rock to sleep when under 1 yr, so we did that, than would put them down wherever they were sleeping. Now, William will lie down on the bed and I sit there and read or do puzzles until he falls asleep.
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Good luck finding what works for your family!

We have co-sleep/slept with both of ours. With our first baby we put her in her crib for naps during the day. With Finn we lowered our bed i.e. we took away the box spring and we just sleep on our mattress. It works for us. He wakes up and is/was real quiet just crawls around on the top of the bed. He fell off the bed right before he turned 7 months so we just took away the box spring. It is not for everyone but it works for us. This way if he wakes up and gets off the bed he is safe. Of course our room is baby proofed as well.

My DD (11 months) is currently napping on a futon mattress in her bedroom.

We co-sleep and at naptime ds sleeps either in the crib, swing, or sling.

i lay down with yossarian until he falls asleep, either in his bed, mine, or on the couch.
it doesn't usually take very long.

We too, taught Ellie to get down from the bed on her tummy. She sleeps at night in our room and naps on her sister's bed as it's lower and she can get down safely when she wakes up. :)

I usually lay down with her till she falls asleep for naps. When I know she's asleep, I can either do my quiet time, work on computer or get up and just shut the gate so dogs can't jump up and snuggle with her.

Oh yeah...it also helped to get Ellie a special pillow case made as she loves to lay on it for "sleep time." And let me tell you, she doesn't like to share her princess pillow case. :lol

Good luck finding what works best for you guys!

We have co-sleep/slept with both of ours. With our first baby we put her in her crib for naps during the day. With Finn we lowered our bed i.e. we took away the box spring and we just sleep on our mattress. It works for us. He wakes up and is/was real quiet just crawls around on the top of the bed. He fell off the bed right before he turned 7 months so we just took away the box spring. It is not for everyone but it works for us. This way if he wakes up and gets off the bed he is safe. Of course our room is baby proofed as well.

Just wanted to add that he is already asleep when I put him in bed for a nap. Either he falls asleep nursing or in my arms and then I go in and put him down. At night when I put him down I get in bed with him and he nurses and then falls asleep or he nurses and then I walk him around until he falls asleep and then I put him in bed. When he is in the bed without us we put pillows on either side of him to prevent him from rolling out of bed.

With Elizabeth I worked too and she was at DH's dad during the day. What I did was I held her blanket close to me when I went to sleep at night and than sent it with her the next day. If he didn't sleep her in the swing he put her on the blanket and covered her up with her "special blanket" and she went almost immediately asleep.

With Doug I am home so I just lay him on the bed with a whole bunch of pillows and listen through the monitor for when he wakes up and go get him immediately.

we upsized to a king and put her in the middle of the bed. i laid to nurse her down, then when i got up, i surrounded her with pillows high enough that she couldn't get out before getting frustrated and crying. and i would go fetch her at the first cry. she never used her crib. she is a very light sleeper and i couldn't lay her down without her waking up, and i refused to do CIO.

Right now, I am taking naps WITH Jade. :) I blame it on the pregnancy, but really I'm just lazy. Jade goes to sleep in her bed by herself at night now so she could probably take a nap on her own. She is usually too wound up to calm herself down, but she NEEDS a nap still. If I didn't lay down with her at first, I think she would just try to get by without a nap, and then we would ALL be cranky.

When she was little, I either took a nap with her, laid down next to her until she fell asleep, or nursed her to sleep and then held her. She would usually wake up if I laid her down, but sometimes I could get away with it. I have no idea how that will work when I have two. :)

We let him nap wherever up until recently. We just started transitioning to napping in the crib. :) Once mine start to scoot, I get nervous. We are currently co-sleeping about 50%. We try the crib first, if he is not interested, I lay down with him. He ends up in our bed after he nurses..whatever time that may be. Last night he slept in his crib from 730-6AM...a little sad for me,but he seemed happy and that's what I amstriving for.;)

I sat on the couch with Ethan while he had nap time. He is the hardest to get to go to sleep and if you move him he wakes up. When I got pregnant with Emerson I realized that I really had to make him sleep in his own bed at nap time. It was horrible, for months it would take me an hour and a half - two hours to get him to take his nap. Now I still have to sing him to sleep but he goes to sleep in about 10 minutes.

Emerson is an awesome sleeper. When she gets tired I just lay her down and she goes to sleep. Right now I have her on our bed but once she is older and we have actually bought her a crib we will lay her down for naps in there. She cracks me up because sometimes she will actually cry because you are holding her when she wants to go to lay down.