Contact naps

My 2 month old is struggling to have naps that aren’t contact naps and will only nap for 25/30 mins at a time. Any suggestions on how to get her to self soothe and put herself to sleep without being on me, she has a dummy and muslin

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My little girl is the same she’s 2 months tomorrow - during the day she only wants contact naps and only sleeps about 30mins if I put her in the pod or Moses basket - but during night she sleeps completly fine in her next2me

Honestly this is totally normal for this age. It can take upto 2 years before a child learns how to self soothe. At this age they still see themselves as part of you and dont want to be left without you for too long. As a mum of a toddler and 9 week old I say please make the most of the tiny baby snuggles as you will miss it. I miss my little baby snuggles with my toddler and am trying to soak up as much as I can with my December baby before he gets too big

My only advice is keep trying, i tried putting my boy down on different surfaces to see if that helped and honestly it did, at first he slept on a pillow on the sofa (with me next to him the entire time) and we’ve worked up to the nest on the sofa and he started a few short naps and worked his way up to at least 2 hours. But he does have to be swaddled otherwise he will wake himself up flapping his arms around. 👌 before that he would only sleep on my chest. I used to feel so trapped, couldn’t make any lunch, couldn’t go for a wee…. 😮‍💨 x

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