To be sitting in the car AGAIN waiting for PFB to wake up?!

[BigDogLittleDog]

It took me 3 hours of trying everything to get him to sleep so sitting in the car for an hour has got to be better than waking him and having to go through it all again!!!

Jock no knack I'm afraid, children either have the gene or don't. DD doesn't, but my niece does. Even now she's 4, if she drops off in the car you can get her out without waking her. If she wriggled round in bed at night, you could pick her up and lay her straight/tuck her back in. Whereas DD is awake the moment you touch the door handle. Which is why she's still in sleeping bags at 16 months (must see if I can find bigger ones cheaply anywhere as she's almost grown out of the up to 18 month ones).

Oh- there is one exception. If I'm parked up at home I can transfer DD to her cot. She does wake but when she sees where we are she relaxes again, and will drop back to sleep as soon as she's in her cot. If we're anywhere else, when she wakes she gets excited and then that's it, sleep is out the window.

Our neighbour does this sometimes, her DD isn't a good sleeper so a drive can be the best way. She goes just a couple of miles, then parks outside her house. If I notice, I take her a cup of tea.

I used to push mine in the pushchair for miles, it kept me fit and got rid of all the baby weight, as well as getting them to sleep. A win-win situation really.

I was lucky and could transfer my DS from the car to his bed to carry on napping. He is very deep sleeper at home.

But I often would arrive somewhere and find him asleep in the back and he would wake if i tried to get him in the pushchair. Then I'd be surfing the net or having a doze myself for an hour.

My eldest would not sleep unless in transit. Oh those well meaning souls.. 'sleep when the baby sleeps' er no I am on the A48 in charge of 1.5 ton of metal. .

I used to doze off too, except then you wake up with a start to find someone peering in, at least I did once. They probably wondered why a grown adult was having a kip in the car in the middle of the day on a suburban road!

Jupiter

I know anyone who says 'sleep when your baby sleeps' or 'just move them into their cot' means well but if anything shows how different babies are, it's naps!

I agree about the transferability gene as DS had it but DD seems not to.

That said, I found that his transferability mid nap improved once he was running around as he was more able to push himself to exhaustion then flop!

DD is still a pre walker so there is hope yet.

though the lazy sod in me might still stay in the car with a coffee and the radio