Baby screaming to sleep at nap time?!

Following as mine is the same

Is your nap routine the same as your bed time routine? If they are drastically different that could be it.

they are, but my son has clubfoot so bedtime routine has boots off (he has to wear them for 23 hours a day) and a bath which I can’t do before every nap. I have a sleep sack I use for bedtime I could try putting him in that for naps

sorry to hear! Hopefully these lovely mums sill have some tips for us!

Mine is the same at the min and she is 15 weeks old. We had a lovely routine where she was sleeping every 1hour 40 mins during the day for a minimum of 45 mins a time. Then over the Christmas period her normal routine went out of the window. Since the new year I have been trying to get back into a routine of some what and it's been difficult, I am just following her tired queues where possible and aiming for her to be asleep every 2 hours. Although she has become very noisy these last 2 weeks and wants to be up right and looking around all the time!

My last resort on getting her to sleep is putting her in the sling and bopping around the kitchen to music that's quite loud, by 10 songs she's asleep

yeah JP is the same, wants to be looking around! I’ll keep trying to put him
Down and get into more of a set routine maybe

I hope it gets easier for us both lol. It's meant to be a sleep regression soon which might be the start of it.

Only do what works for you and baby, things will work eventually. I've heard light rooms from 3 months old make it difficult for baby to nap

My daughter was just like this for several months, for some babies it’s a form of self soothing and to get the final bit of energy out. It didn’t matter what we did, how perfectly we timed getting her to sleep, or the we stuck to nap time routine religiously she always screamed for 5-10 minutes before going to sleep. We contact napped either with her in the sling or holding her during this time and it made no difference.

So it may be that there just isn’t anything you can do to change it, but just be another phase. Xx

me too!

I do want him to get more of a routine anyway and apparently this is the time to start…. But he’ll do his own thing I’m sure!

Makes sense with more awareness

yeah I read it could be self soothing like when he shakes his head and pounds his feet lol.

If it is a phase I’m hoping it doesn’t last too long!

oooo ok. Yea try the sack.

My eldest was like this for a while, just always cried before a nap (whilst being rocked and always contact napped). Just happened in phases, think it's just a baby thing tbh! It is a tricky age. My youngest is 15weeks and is fine for me but screams blue murder for his dad to get him to sleep 🙈