Please help - daytime naps
My little girl is coming up to 4 months next week, the last 2 weeks, she is fighting every single day time nap. To the point now, she will scream and kick in my arms when trying to settle her, she will not settle alone. She is super fussy 24/7. Night time sleep is fine and always has been, she sleeps 11/12 hours and wakes up once in the night for a feed. Is this a regression???
I am at the point where I really don’t know what to try next! I’ve tried dropping a nap, trying to make her nap longer, extending wake windows, sleeping at an early bedtime etc. nothing seems to make a difference!
If your little one went though this, please tell me what you did to help 🙌🏼
We definitely went through this (and sometimes still do) it was definitely my darkest days. When they fight naps it’s soo hard and upsetting, and the cycle of overtiredness gets really overwhelming. I started using the huckleberry app to help me tell me when she needed to go down for a nap (she is v hard to read and I’ve now realised once she’s showing tired signs, it’s too late) I then would go out in the buggy, snooze shade, dummy and white noise and walk FAST and she started going off to sleep very quickly every time I did this. Not ideal but I couldn’t bear fighting her for the cot naps and now she sleeps in the buggy pretty reliably whenever it’s time. You’ll work out what works for you and your baby but it might be totally different to what worked before. Good luck, it will pass!