Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Breaking the Queen of the 20 Minute Power Nap

So as you may remember Sticks is not the world's best napper. She gets exhausted and fights sleeping. Somehow she believes that during her nap we are all going to do something really cool and she will miss out. Lately, she was becoming the Queen of the 20 minute power nap, which drives me crazy. She will fall asleep and then 20 minutes or so later will wake up. Once she is awake she is fully engaged and utterly exhausted at the same time. This creates a downward spiral for the rest of the day as she increasing becomes more and more tired and grumpy. Then attempting to get her to sleep again at the next nap becomes an overly exhausted scream crying session with arm flaring and kicking. I have been trying to break this vicious cycle, for obvious reasons. The last few days she has actually taken great naps, including 3 hour nap session on back to back days. Woohoo! It's exciting times in the Land of Strobel. We need to keep this momentum going.

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