Naptime crisis

[Mamma_Mia]

Won't he drink the bottle in the playpen? That's what I would do. I wouldn't allow a baby to drink a bottle on my couch anyway. Besides that, I agree with the previous 3 posters - cry it out! Put him in a room by himself. When I have a new child who won't sleep I spend the first month if necessary sitting by the playpen and laying the child down over and over again and making them learn that when they are put in the playpen it is naptime. It's not mean, it's training them just like any other thing they have to learn. I don't get much of a break when I have a new child like this but it is worth the time and effort to get them into our routine.

Exactly!
a) why can't he drink his bottle in the playpen then fall asleep?

b) cry it out

[victoriaB]

Naptime is really a crisis specially when kids still have their playmates or still on the mood to play. We must let them be and at the time they get tired, that's your chance to make take a nape.

[loads'o'kids]

I had an 18 month old who cried for the first 3 weeks off and on for hours when I put her down to nap in the playpen. I don't think she ever actually slept. The first few days I would leave her for about 40 min, then an hour, then one and half hours, then 2 hours. After 3 weeks she started just walking up to her playpen after lunch and would go right to sleep for 2 hours. I guess some kids just take longer to understand that you mean business and they have to stay where you put them and they're not getting out until nap time is over so they might as well accept it and sleep!