Refusing to nap!

Evening all. My 10 week old refuses to nap during the day to the point where she’s absolutely exhausted in the evenings. She can sometimes be up from late morning until the evening.
Getting her down at home during the day is near impossible, occasionally she’ll go in her cat seat or pram but I can’t drive/walk around all day. I’ve tried everything I can think of. Is this normal? Does it pass? Any advice/tips much appreciated.

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Have you tried a sling? We had this for a while and the sling transformed it - they just love being close to you.

She probably wants to sleep close to you - as above try a sling or contact nap on the bed or sofa. At 10 weeks the 'norm' (appreciate all babies are different) is a nap approx every 1.5-2 hours so she must be so overtired, which may in turn be making it harder for her to sleep. Can you try just going about your day wearing a sling then she can sleep whenever she wants and if she can't settle, I'd try some skin to skin contact naps so she starts allowing herself to sleep. I couldn't get my son down or transfer him even when he was already asleep until he was six months old. It takes until they're around six months for them to connect their sleep cycles and they're generally really light sleepers until then.

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Which ideaology do you wish would disappear?

1. Toys have genders
2. Breastfeeding past 1 year is just for the Mum
3. Boys don't cry
4. You can sleep train a newborn

Couldn't fit an option for all of them

Breastfeeding Mamas

I keep seeing mix reviews , did breastfeeding make you loose weight?

I’m lost

My daughter turns 6 months soon and will not stop crying. She has NEVERRR been like this at all. I put her down, she cries, I hold her, she cries. I am so tired and slowly going insane. I don’t know why she’s so sad. She doesn’t want a bottle, she doesn’t want to play and she doesn’t want to sleep. Someone please tell me this is normal or if I should take her to a doctor

Changing diaper

I have a question.. do y’all change your babies diapers during nap time while being out? My baby fell asleep and needs a diaper change.. but he struggled to fall asleep and I feel so bad waking him up to change his diaper because I know he won’t fall back asleep

Do you think incognito posts making assumptions or comments about breastfeeding are just trying to take digs at breastfeeding Mums?

Like I'm talking about present and past posts, for instance the one where they said it's weird to breastfeed a 1-2 year old or talking about Mums being addicted to breastfeeding... Yadda yadda yadda. Do you think they do that to try and slyly take digs at Mums who breastfeed?

Really fussy and upset baby. Please tell me it gets better?!

Hey, my 11 week old is a fussy baby from day one. He has his good moments but generally cries a lot, doesn’t like change and is a sensitive soul. I find it really hard to leave the house with him. He’s showing signs of regulating better and tolerating things however, the past 3 days he has just constantly cried and is fighting all of his naps. He usually loves contact napping on me but lately he fights it and only sleeps for about 15-20 minutes. He has also been getting distracted during feeds.

I think he’s currently in the third leap but please tell me it gets better?! Especially those who have had fussy/alert babies. Do they settle and become happy & relaxed babies? 😵‍💫