10 week old - Daytime naps

My LO is resisting day naps or struggling to fall/stay asleep. I catch her cues early, put her in her sleep sack, rock her in a dim room with brown noise. She'll nod off but will wake up in my arms after about 5-10mins and we repeat, with her getting crankier and crankier. Eventually after few hours I might get under an hour.

She's a better sleeper at night! And settles after waking up for feeds too. Perhaps it's the melatonin in breastmilk.

I feel like I spend most of the day trying to get her to have 1-2 naps.

Stroller naps work the best but recently I feel like she's taking longer to fall asleep and will even keep waking up.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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We bought a sling and it was the best thing we did because she falls asleep with minutes and stays asleep for a few hours. Also means I have my hands free 🙌🏻

she hates the sling/carriers. She prefers to be front facing but it's too early

My LB (also 10 weeks) is doing exactly this now for the past 2 days. Only goes down for 20mins if that, wakes up and seems tired and grumpy. Constantly trying to put him to sleep. Prior to this he would nap really well during day. 😫

At night he's sleeping fine. I wonder if it's just the stage they are at?

My 8 week old is resisting daytime naps also, yesterday she finally went down for a nap in the afternoon but would only sleep on me! Every time I went to put her in the Moses basket her eyes would be wide awake! We did this for 3 hours 😭 she then didn’t sleep again until bedtime at 11!

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