My daughter is just about 21 months and has recently totally regressed to needing to nap ON me. I was very mellow about letting her nap on me the first year and then I worked towards independent napping after nursing. Now she nurses to sleep, wakes up enough to take my nipple out of her mouth (my rule because she bites while she's asleep) then sleeps on my lap/chest for her nap. The problem is... I'm three months pregnant. Soon I just won't have the lap for this and then I'll have another baby and I won't be completely at her back and call.
Any advice on this situation? I have always been pretty focused on following her needs and this has been very important to her lately. I know that a lot of the reason is that I am less responsive/playful during the day because I've been exhausted and she needs the contact. We also put her in her own bed a few weeks ago and she's doing really well with that. When she wakes up in the morning we go get her and that's probably also contributing to her needing the nap contact.
This isn't awful and I'm not hating life by any stretch but this really isn't a great long term solution and I'm not sure she will grow out of this stage on her own in time.
Any advice on this situation? I have always been pretty focused on following her needs and this has been very important to her lately. I know that a lot of the reason is that I am less responsive/playful during the day because I've been exhausted and she needs the contact. We also put her in her own bed a few weeks ago and she's doing really well with that. When she wakes up in the morning we go get her and that's probably also contributing to her needing the nap contact.
This isn't awful and I'm not hating life by any stretch but this really isn't a great long term solution and I'm not sure she will grow out of this stage on her own in time.
