My baby always needed contact for her naps. She had a few days in the summertime not wanting to be on my arms because it was so hot and both of us were sweating, but apart from that, she only wanted to nap on me. Even with my partner, her naps were not as long as with me. We snuggled and I was either reading or watching something.
Now, at only 8 months, she decided not to contact nap anymore. She will still fall asleep on my arms, but she starts to get uncomfortable and pushes me soon after. She moves a lot in her sleep, so I think she now needs more mobility. I miss her on my arms, her ear print on my arm after the nap, her little face close to mine, her smell— I miss it so much. I wish I could have enjoyed a few more months of it.
Aw, my 4-month-old will only contact nap, and some days I wish he’d just nap in his crib, but it’s so true that it flies by. He just loves to be close to mama.
Thank you, needed that! As I’m contact napping right now and was just debating putting him down. It’s so sweet and precious, and honestly nowhere else I’d rather be.
My daughter is a little over 2. Yesterday she didn’t have a nap and fell asleep early. She woke up late at night and cried. I held her and rocked her back to bed. I can’t remember the last time I did that other than her contact naps we used to have. It made me miss those moments and definitely realized how big she’s gotten.
Oh, this is so true. I hated contact naps, and now my 9mo hates contact naps lol. Last week I randomly fell asleep with him, and my arm was under him and he was hugging me. I woke up all sweaty and cried because I missed these contact naps.
I’m starting to get the feeling this is happening to us. We just sleep trained our almost 6mo, and the past two days he has only been able to sleep like 15-20 min on me at a time. His crib naps are getting a lot longer.
We decided to sleep train right around 6 months after doing contact naps since he was a fresh grub, and on the final day of it, I made sure I soaked it all in. He even held my hand for half of it and it made me absolutely melt.
Like yours, ours would fall asleep and try to get comfortable (wanted to roll over) and just couldn’t, so we knew it was time. Sometimes the naps were so difficult (ours went through a period of needing us to be on the yoga ball for the entire nap), but ultimately we remembered that there would be a day when we missed all of the cuddly naps.
I kind of feel bad to say this, but… I can’t wait for the day…
I love to cuddle with him, but his sleeping habits have been “killing us” almost since the day he was born, despite all of our attempts to try to train him. He’s 12mo and only falling asleep in the lap or breast, and after a lot of effort (yes, because he fights actively against sleep) waking every 30min in the day and also sometimes at night… in the good nights he can sleep 1.5 hours without waking and demanding to be held… yes demanding, because he doesn’t cry, he screams if nobody holds him…
So yeah, most of the time we’re just too tired to enjoy the contact naps…
I contact nap with my son at least twice a day. I LOVE it. I am going back to work in two weeks and am devastated about giving up the cuddles and worried he will not sleep. It is an adjustment we will be forced to make. So sad
3 months and we only contact nap. I was annoyed at first he only would contact nap, and now I love it. My husband asks if I want him to take over a nap, and I always say no. I go back to work in 2 months, so I know this is ending soon, and I am relishing in this. Staring at his perfect lips, long eyelashes, and squishy hands wrapped around me brings me to tears most days.
He just loves to be close to mama.
