Advice please. Anyone else struggling to get baby to have naps because they have another child?

Because I am STRUGGLING and it’s getting to the point where I’m literally raging (internally) and just down right miserable.

I have a 3 nearly 4 year old son and my daughter is 5 months old.

Nap time is horrendous because when he’s home it’s not really happening. No matter what I do what room I go in, how I approach it she’s just not napping and is becoming miserable. If she finally naps it’s taking me 1-2 hours to get her to do so.

Example:
Sunday when my son was home my daughter didn’t nap until 4pm.
Monday when he’s at nursery all day and collected by a grandparent and brought home at bedtime my daughter had 3 blissful naps where she put herself to sleep.

No matter what I say or do he is interrupting the nap process and I’m finding it really hard to manage now because like I say I’m just getting angry (not at him literally) and overwhelmed. They’re both whining so much and I’m just miserable from it.

I’m happy for him to independently play and he usually does so I’ve started taking myself away and into her room to put her down for a nap in her big cot but it’s still so so hard, he came in shouting yesterday flicking her lamp on and off 2 seconds after she shut her eyes and boom that was her awake for another two hours miserable as ever.

I can’t get everything done because my day is just consumed by trying to get this girly to have at least one good nap. Bedtime is fine as he sleeps at 7 and she follows about half an hour later and puts herself to sleep no issues.

Help a mum out because I’m losing the will to live on days he’s not at nursery/the weekend!

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