Nap help!

My boy is 15 weeks, he sleeps great at night, we had 6 days of no sleep due to the regression but he’s back sleeping 9 until 4/5, feed and then sleeps until 7:30.
However he is a terrible napper! If he is in the pushchair, carrier or car then he will sleep an infinite amount. But if I try and get him to nap at home, we get one sleep cycles worth, so around 30 mins. I put him in his nursery, black out blinds, sleeping bag, white noise, yet he will wake up after 30 mins without fail every time! It confuses me as he sleeps so well at night. Once he wakes after 30 mins I can’t get him back down unless it’s a contact nap.

Any advice or is this just a phase and he will grow out of it? I used to just let him contact nap but I’m really trying now to get him to nap independently.

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Just to say mine is identical. 9-5 and 6-8 at night, pram as long as the walk lasts, max 45min at home during the day. I just accepted my fate and hope as his schedule changes I will be able to get him to have one big nap at home mid day. But not sure when that is, maybe when he’s awake during walks

How do you settle him to sleep? At this stage babies are still learning how to independently connect sleep cycles, so when your little one wakes after his first cycle, he may need support to settle back to sleep in the same manner as you put him to sleep in the first place. I also notice my little girl wakes after 30 minutes if she’s gone down for a nap overtired. Do you follow wake windows? Xx

he falls asleep in his cot, I just pop his dummy in and stroke his nose. I try this when he wakes up, and rocking him etc but it doesn’t work he doesn’t go back to sleep. Yes we follow wake windows aswell, so who knows🤷🏼‍♀️

He is so gorgeous. 😍🥳💓

Mine second only did contact naps. I enjoyed it while I could since I know how fast it goes by. But it does get tiring.. have you tried a swing? I used to have to let them sleep on me and once I knew they were, I’d wait 20 minutes so they were in deep sleep and then I’d put them down

I had the same problem with my lil boy finally I tried playing his shows when I put him down for nap time since it helped before and it started helping again he would watch for a few minutes and then fall asleep and also there was a phase he went through when he was 5 months where he wouldnt take a nap unless i co naped with him.

Yeah similar issue for me with my one month old. I am thinking that less sleep during the day may be equating to more at night? Also think my little one sleeps a bit whilst feeding so gets micro naps that way and then doesn’t need as long a sleep during day afterwards. Trying to limit contact naps.

Mine does the same thing and she stays fussy and everything

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