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Sam has always had a tough time napping during the day (thankfully his nighttime sleep has been pretty good from day one – -not long segments, but at least he didn’t mix up day and night much). To get him to nap, we started by walking around the neighborhood during his first few weeks of life (and by we, I mean my parents as they started this trend 🙂 — great as it was summer in the Bay Area. We graduated to the sling around week 8 (I still marvel at the difference that made). Yesterday we took first steps to napping in his crib. After 15 mins of soothing, he fell asleep in my arms and after *the slowest* transfer of baby to crib possible, he rested peacefully there too. 15 minutes later he was awake, but only took 3 minutes to soothe this time and he was back to sleep. This repeated 2 more times until he was up for good. An excellent first try, if i do say so myself.

Today he took two more naps (the first for 1 hour 20 mins, the second for 45) and his mom even snagged a 20 minute nap in her bed (previous naps were relegated to the glider or propped up on the couch as Sam was in the sling and pretty sensitive to my/his position in space 🙂

Hooray for Sam!