Naps - send help!

Curious as to what your guys nap situation looks like? my LO is 8 weeks and is such a bad napper. He will pretty much only contact nap & apart from the odd one where he knocks out after a bottle, mostly all of his naps are such effort and can take well over an hour to get there & even then its a fairly light sleep whilst hes laying on me. i try everything, white noise, swaddle, low lights, rocking but sometimes he just doesnt seem interested but is obviously getting overtired.

am i doing something wrong? Im getting so fed up of my day being entirely made up trying to get him to nap or sitting completely still with him whilst he cat naps, if i move an inch hes awake, wont take to a sling/carrier either

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I’m in the same boat with this!! 🫠xx

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How about walks out in the pram? That always works for my girlie! She refuses to be set down for day naps now too

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Oh my goodness! We hit 9 weeks and it did a full 360 and my little guy is now waking, eating, nappy change, play for 45-60 minutes and down for a nap. This cycles repeats every 3 hours. This time the other week i was saying how much he just hates sleep and he was constantly getting himself so over tired!

For sleep we do dummy, nappy, blinds shut and white noise (i reopen blinds once he’s asleep)

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I’ve realised everyone on social media isn’t telling the truth fully so do not worry xx

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I’m a first time mama to a beautiful baby girl (3months tomoro) and was hoping to get some insight.
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In the 4 month trenches…

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