Only contact naps during the day

I have a 12 week old and the only way she will nap during the day is by contact napping. I am then trapped as I can’t put her down as she will wake up immediately. I have tried the carrier which does work too, but I feel bad for having her in it too much as it’s quite limiting on what she can see and makes us both hot with the weather being so warm.

Any tips for getting baby to nap in their crib/bassinet?

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Only thing that helped my son was time, he slept in his crib from around 7-8 months for about 40 minutes. Before that he would contact nap, obviously same room until 6 months but at that point I started trying to do one nap in his crib in the day. Eventually he started to do be able to nap longer.

Same here, time. I literally kept persevering until it worked, sometimes still doesn’t !! White noise helps us massively, depends if your little one likes it or not I guess

Yep mine is 12 weeks this week and will only contact nap or have a short nap in the pram if we are out, I’m just dealing with it for now and letting her have the contact naps

Exact same for me. Contact naps only during the day. The one big positive is these are considered extremely beneficial for baby's brain development and nervous regulation. I know it's hard but more strength to us all 😅

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Dropping to 1 nap?

My girl is 13 months tomorrow. The last couple of weeks there has been days where she is only having 1 nap.

She usually goes down around 9.30 and can sleep for 40mins- 2.5hrs. If at home, they’ve been getting longer. Then we go out and about and she often goes till bedtime 6.30/7.30. Sometimes she’ll fall asleep in the afternoon in the car, but when at childcare etc she often refuses to sleep in the afternoon.

She does manage with 1 nap as long as it is a long one. The only issue being she struggles to stay awake past 9.30/10 in the morning, so is often waking 12.30 at the latest, which then makes the afternoon really long, and she can get very grumpy in the afternoon/evening where she’s tired!

Am I tripping or is my Baby Daddy?

I’m a SAHM while he the breadwinner. I personally just want to cuddle and wind down together after the baby’s asleep. He constantly says he has to finish work, he has errands or he wants to play the game with the boys. Mind you .. he often falls asleep on the couch instead of getting in bed. Plus this is a frequent thing through out the week. It bothers me, I’m voiced it, but the change isn’t consistent. Am I tripping???

Contact naps

Am I making it more difficult for myself long term by allowing contact naps during the day? She doesn’t like her naps in the pram and doesn’t stay down very long when I do put her down in the day… -she doesn’t like lying flat due to reflux… 9/10x she’s ok in her cot at night. 15 week old.

Nocturnal Baby

Had my second daughter on Aug 5th, and since being home the little pickle has had one good sleep night and is basically nocturnal since. For the life of me I can't remember what it was like or what we did with my first. Am I just gonna have to sleep earlier and fight through 😩

Routines

Those of you getting 4/5/6/7 hour stretches at night, what’s your day/night one routines? Ie when are you putting them to bed? How long are they awake for before bed? How often are they napping in the day?

Asking for very tired friend 🫠😅

6 week old so fidgety

My LO is soo fidgety b literally struggle to put him to sleep sometimes because how much he moves and fidgets. I’ve heard about active sleeping but even in his sleep the level of fidgeting and moving is a lot. This normal?