Day naps
How are you all getting babies to nap on their own. Baby is nearly 4 months and old and still loves a contact nap. Don’t get me wrong I love that she still wants to nap on me but I would like to get some house work done or shower when she naps. She will nap in the car seat or pram just won’t nap on her own in the house.
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Our first step towards independent napping was playing in the crib. This allowed him to get used to the space and make positive correlations with it. Then every day I made sure to leave him awake and happy in the crib while I sat next to it or did something close by and every time he was happy in there and I came back I celebrated with him so he continued to make positive connections with the space. After a while of this whenever I was rocking him to sleep and his eyes get heavy I lay him down in there and if he woke up or cried I picked him back up and rocked him again until his eyes were heavy and try again and eventually he just stayed asleep when I laid him down.
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My baby is 4m on Friday she has 3 naps a day sometimes only 2. She will not nap unless we go for a walk in the morning first her morning nap then I leave her in the pram while I get some things done, her second nap she needs to fall asleep on myself or my partner sometimes we contact nap with this but we try to put her down. I see a lot of ppl able to pop their baby in their cot for naps but she absolutely will not unless it’s bedtime so we pop her on the sofa (we have a corner one so it’s safe while we tidy the room etc)