Getting out of contact naps

My little boy is similar, some naps he’s fine on his own and others (such as right now) he has to be on me to sleep. I’ve found using a white noise app on my phone really good when I want to put him down. Keeping the app on loud and slowly reducing it until it’s quiet but leaving it on. I will often put him down on his front too, cuddled up to the feeding pillow. This way he still feels like he’s cuddled up to something. He can still breath fine and as he can roll from his front to his back I’m not worried about that, I also make sure I have my baby monitor on him for this. I don’t transfer him for about 15 mins though so I know he’s properly asleep. Hope that helps. X

thank you for the tips! So helpful. I’ve found I can only move him after an hour successfully (if he even gets that far!)

Honestly i think they just do it when they are ready, i know thats not a helpful answer ♡ mine always contacted napped but in the last two weeks hes started sleeping fine in his cot for naps, i did nothing different he just started doing it on his own

that’s amazing! Did you just constantly try put him down for naps and then one day it worked?

Yeah so he needs me to get him to sleep by holding him, then after he is fully asleep maybe like 10 minutes i put him down. Sometimes after 10 mins he might wake up again but i just pick him up, put his dummy in and rock him then he goes back to sleep and i put him down and he stays asleep xx

The dream egg white noise machine has really helped me with this!

Thanks both - hoping we can do this soon, don’t want to fix any bad habits! But not sure if it’s still too early to worry about that