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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Could he do the first nap in the snoo? Regular curtains are surely fine. For mine, the first nap is the best one (meaning she often but not always makes it past the 40 min wakeup on her own), and then they decline from there. By the last nap, I'm wearing her 9x/10.

It sounds like he falls asleep independently only in the snoo. So you're probably going to have to do some version of sleep training for the crib if you don't want this to continue. There are a lot of options out there besides straight CIO. [/quote]

Also, does he roll? It’s my impression that if you’re going to stop swaddling, you want to start with bedtime. Naps are harder. So maybe a swaddle at least for the first big morning nap?[/quote]

He doesn't roll but shows signs of trying and I know babies do lots of experimenting in the crib, so swaddling in the crib just isn't an option anymore. I would have too much anxiety that the nanny wasn't watching the monitor closely enough too (I know that's a "me" issue, but it's reality). We experimented with swaddling in the crib when we first started trying to get him to nap there at 10 weeks and it didn't really seem to make any difference in falling asleep independently (hit or miss) or extending time asleep (30-40 minute naps, at most).

The frustrating part is that he DOES show that he can fall asleep on his own, it's just not consistent, probably 50% of the time for me before I went back to work. I was fine with that and proud of any time we got in the crib and happy to extend after that point, figuring my nanny would at least get 30-40 minutes a couple times a day. He seems to be struggling with the change or just regressing in some other way, and I know she's at her wit's end after 2 weeks, while respecting our wishes not to let him cry for long because he's just still so little. Wish the Snoo would work for naps and we have tried but he just spends the whole time staring at the ceiling fan and shadows in our room, so it's not an option.

And totally agree, cry-it-out isn't the only method, but most sleep training just doesn't seem to make sense for naps because you don't have an hour to keep doing check ins til they fall asleep before you've missed your entire nap window (and he doesn't need at night for now, and we aren't going to mess with a good thing at night by ditching the Snoo and sleep training in his crib). I've read about crib hour and other methods for naps, but again, none of those are really advised until the 4.5-5 month mark at the earliest. So maybe this is just a case where the nanny just has to suffer/power through the next month or two and things will get better for a myriad reasons then.[/quote]

Why is swaddling in the crib not an option? I double swaddled mine in the crib.[/quote]

AAP says 8 weeks OR signs of rolling whichever comes first. Considering he is 15 weeks and showing signs of rolling (trying hard to figure it out during floor time and can get to his side), I'm not going to swaddle him in the crib (whereas in the Snoo at night, he's clipped in). The last thing I would want would be for him to figure it out while he's swaddled. And for whatever reason, it doesn't really seem to have any effect on his naps anyway. When swaddled, he wasn't sleeping any easier or longer during the day. And his startle reflex is pretty calm now, he doesn't take a pacifier, and uses his hand to self soothe when he does have success falling asleep on his own, so it just doesn't really make sense to me to continue to swaddle. 
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