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Moms View Message Board: Parenting Discussion: Archive January-June 2005: Play Group Question
Hi Moms, I have a 9 month old baby. Here's our weekly schedule. Tues. 9:30 am - swimming lessons. Wed. 1-2 - baby & Mom Aquafit. Thurs. 11-12 Babies in Playland. My baby still has two naps each day, usually somewhere between 9 am and 10:30 am and between 1 pm & 3 pm. Today I had to wake him up to go to our play group. He had been asleep for almost 1 hour. I felt so bad waking him up, but he loves his playgroup and he learns so much when he's there. How do you feel about waking a baby to go out for one of these events? Let me know you what you would do. Thanks.
DD goes to Playgroup every Thursday morning from 9-10:30 and were currently looking into swimming lessons. I guess waking him up depends on you and how well you know him. With my DD, if she naps for atleast 45 minutes and theres something I have to do, I usually check to see how asleep she is. 45 minutes is usually a good amount of sleep for her if I want her to take 2 naps a day but lately when I put her down, she will sleep up to 3 hours, in just that one nap!!! If he wakes up okay and not cranky and enjoys being at the playgroup, I dont see the problem. But remember that sleeping is essential to their growing, learning and everything else so I wouldnt do it ALL the time. As occasional short nap wont hurt.
I may be the minority opinion, but my first reaction was my gosh, a 9 month old and 3 scheduled activities a week??? Would I wake my baby up to go to a play group, maybe on occasion, but never regularly. Can you find a group that doesn't interfer with nap. I also guess I am amazed with the thought that he learns so much there, at 9 months what they need to be learning has very little to do with who is around him. If this is for your baby, remember to put him and his needs first. If this is for you, then you need to modify his schedule so he isn't missing his nap regularly.
Thanks for the comments I really appreciate them and you are right sleeping is essential to having a happy growing well balanced baby. Kaye, believe when I say I'm doing this for my ds and not myself, I'm quite content to stay at home and actually have to force myself to get out. I'm no social butterfly. I meet many of the same mom's at swimming and at the play group. I guess I'm not the only one. There is a lot of pressure these days to ensure that your child is adequately stimulated. I know our moms didn't do half of the things that we do with our kids and we turned out fine. I don't disagree with you about people overscheduling their kids. If I thought ds was suffering I would not put him through this. He really loves all of the activities and this is the first time I have had to waken him to go. He had an extra long nap this afternoon when we got home and was happy and content this afternoon. He really does seem to learn more at the group, he crawls better there and is much more verbal he seems more stimulated by the other children and all of the different toys. Perhaps you are right, we may drop the Aquafit as he is just sitting in the boat while I work out. Thanks again I will certianly consider all that you have said.
Take your cue from your son. Is he very cranky for a while after you wake him? Does he have trouble sleeping at night? Does he seem very wound up to you? If not, and you don't see any other signs that he's not getting enough sleep, then I don't see anything wrong.
I did playgroups, etc. when my kids were little but I didn't mess with their naps if I didn't have to. I didn't wake them up from a nap unless it was for something important. Besides, nap time was prime time for me to get stuff done around the house! LOL!
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