Nap 1 in the swing went well. Gwen woke up after 1 hour 56 minutes. After a half hour, however, she was rubbing her eyes again (this is an improvement over 5 minutes). I'm guessing that she is just THAT sleep deprived. It may take a few days to catch up on sleep.
Nap 2 hasn't been quite as smooth as nap 1, but it has been going much better than normal naps. Normally, when I wanted her to piggy back naps (that's what I called it when she would wake up after 45 minutes and I would try to coax her to sleep another 45 minutes) I would try my darndest to get her back to sleep, but would often fail. She would just be laying there with bright, wide-open eyes. I knew that I was defeated when she would start smiling her big gummy grin. I hear her fuss a couple of times during nap 2. The first time I rode it out to see if she would calm herself. She did. 20 minutes later I heard her again and she sounded like she was ramping up to the point she would be unable to settle back to sleep if I didn't intervene. I went into the nursery, flipped on the light, and, low and behold, her eyes were still shut. She was crying in her sleep. My turning on the light didn't help matters, but I managed to turn it off fast enough that it didn't do much harm. I sat next to the swing, sang a few verses of "Hush Little Baby," and she was fast asleep again! She has now been asleep for 1 hour 45 minutes.
During her 2 naps in the swing she has slept more than she usually sleeps over the course of 5 normal naps.
Nap 2 hasn't been quite as smooth as nap 1, but it has been going much better than normal naps. Normally, when I wanted her to piggy back naps (that's what I called it when she would wake up after 45 minutes and I would try to coax her to sleep another 45 minutes) I would try my darndest to get her back to sleep, but would often fail. She would just be laying there with bright, wide-open eyes. I knew that I was defeated when she would start smiling her big gummy grin. I hear her fuss a couple of times during nap 2. The first time I rode it out to see if she would calm herself. She did. 20 minutes later I heard her again and she sounded like she was ramping up to the point she would be unable to settle back to sleep if I didn't intervene. I went into the nursery, flipped on the light, and, low and behold, her eyes were still shut. She was crying in her sleep. My turning on the light didn't help matters, but I managed to turn it off fast enough that it didn't do much harm. I sat next to the swing, sang a few verses of "Hush Little Baby," and she was fast asleep again! She has now been asleep for 1 hour 45 minutes.
During her 2 naps in the swing she has slept more than she usually sleeps over the course of 5 normal naps.
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