Tips on transitioning from contact naps to cot

Mine goes down in the cot for all his naps now, but it was a long road! I still get him to sleep in arms before transferring.
I do a mini nap routine: get in the bedroom quite light, get in sleep bag, read a book, then I make the room darker and put on white noise, will offer a feed if he wants one and then I would rock to sleep, but now we can just cuddle. Key I have found for the transfer is waiting at least 8 minutes from him falling asleep.
We started just with the first nap of the day as that was the easiest one, then slowly built them up if we were at home x

thank you! I was thinking of starting with the first nap of the day as she’s always in a better mood in the morning! I’ll definitely try!

My little girl has napped in her cot for last 2-3 months now- it was a journey but what worked for us was putting her in there when she wasn’t due a nap and letting her play/ playing with her for a bit (just 5-10 mins here and there) then we basically started a mini bedtime routine so pop her in sleeping bag put her down in cot awake and read a book then tell her we love her, put dummy in, give her a kiss and turn the lights off. I used to stay in the room right by the cot for he whole nap, any time she started to get upset I would put my hand on her chest or stroke her forehead which calmed her down, if she got super upset then I would pick her up and snuggle her till calm then put her back - I have never let her cry as I don’t believe in it. After 2/3 days she had cracked it and now I can just put her down awake give her the dummy and leave and she takes herself straight to sleep without any help from me xx

We started putting our boy down about 4 weeks ago because he was screaming before every sleep whatever we did - contact, car, pram, next to me on the bed etc. for sometimes 20mins even though we followed wake windows and sleep cues. I think it was the 4 month regression. I put him down and left him 10 mins to have a shower. He was asleep by the time I was out. We now do a mini nap routine and put him in his cot, give him 10 mins to settle and then go in to stroke and comfort if needed, which is very rare. He now naps on his belly and seems much happier!