Naps in the crib vs. somewhere else

I personally think that nap time's would be better in the crib, as that's where he sleeps at night. He has to learn to sleep in his crib when it's sleep time, and no where else.

If you're going to put your child in a different room and different place for the day time naps, he will get confused, so i think keeping your child in the one room ( his room ) in his own crib would be best.

This way, it also teaches him that he has his own bedroom and bed / crib / cot to sleep in, and that you and your partner have your room to sleep in. Hope this make sense.

Where ever he sleeps he sleeps... At day care he sleeps in a different room and a crib.. At home I always stick him in his crib so i can work around him..  At his grandma's he sleeps in a play parc.. I just think if he is tired enough he will sleep anywhere....

My son has always been a good sleeper. sometimes when we put him in the car he falls asleep before we have even gotten out of the driveway! the baby carrier backpack thigny is good too... he falls asleep and the side panels keep his head fromflopping around. When i rang the sleep centre a fewmonths back they told me to put him in his cot for his day time naps, because he will havea better sleep. a freidn of mine saidd this worked for her. but he just WOULD NOT sleep. he went a whole week without a daytime nap, which made for a really crabby baby! in general, he sleeps on his special nap time blankie on the lounge room floor. that way if he wakes up, he sees he isnt alone an dgoes back to sleep :) at the moment he is (trying) to have 6 hour sleeps. i have to keep waking him up to feed him! He has no trouble going to bed, i more often than not put him in his cot whilst he is still awake an he will put himself to sleep.

i know, i have been blessed, it wasn't always that way. my brother would sleep anywhere- as long as he had 'silkie' silkie was his satin pillow case. not on a pillow either. just to touch and cuddle.

When my son was born we had a bassinette with a stand so we put him to sleep in that and moved it where ever we were.  When he got a bit older & too big for the bassinette - we used to put him to sleep on a blanket in the lounge room. 

When he started to move off the blanket we then decided that he would sleep in his cot.  Since then he has associated his cot or any portacot with sleeping and he sleeps better during the day & sleeping through all night because he is sleeping well in the day.  He also knows that his room is for sleeping - & not with mum & dad.

We never had a problem with knowing whether our boy would need anything - he always let us know!

First of all , I think you should re-post this in the Q&A to get more of a response.

Overall, I think when children are at home, they should sleep in their beds.

My kids always sleep in their bed/cot whether it's a nap or it's the long sleep.  Something I learnt when I had Luke was it is great to co-sleep, but when possible, we should put him in his own bed in his own room.  A number of reasons were given.  To ensure the parents get proper sleep.  When my children so much as sighed in their sleep when we shared, I would be disturbed.  In their own room you wouldn't hear those little noises they make and sleep more soundly...and I used a monitor.  The other reason was the autonomy aspect.  I know of a couple of people that put their 4 year olds in their bed, and when they fall asleep, put them in their own beds because they are used to sleeping in mum and dad's bed. 

I also think that it's important for children to be able to nap in unfamiliar surroundings.  A friend of mine would run her daily schedules around her daughter's sleeping habits.  She would drop whatever she was doing to make sure she got home on time for the little one to have a sleep.

As a background, I co-sleep, so Matthew sleeps in the bed with my husband and I. 

I used to let Matthew nap in the couch in the livingroom so that I could tend to him when he starts to wake up. When I tended to him fast enough, he went back to sleep some more. This worked out pretty well for about a month, but it started going downhill after that. One weekend, I couldn't put him to sleep no matter what I did (rocked him, swung him). It was obvious that he was very very sleepy but for some reason, he just wouldn't go down. I was at my wit's end until my husband suggested that maybe we should take him upstairs to our bedroom. I did just that and it worked. I lied down with him for about 10 minutes and he fell asleep.

So now, that's how things go. Everyday when it's nap time, we say night night to Salem & Koby (our 2 schnauzers) and head off upstairs. It works like a charm. Matthew gets his paci and in 5 minutes he's gone.

Anyway, I think this would be better posted on the Q&A section, or a forum.