Fighting naps

My baby just turned 3 months and she just started fighting naps again😭 is anyone going through the same thing?
I can’t keep rocking her, my back hurts from having to stand up and rock her every single time, and now she’s resisting that too! . Am also trying to get rid of this habit! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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You’re not alone! My baby girl just turned three months and will only nap for like 10 minutes. I’ve been laying down with her, and she seems to stay down for about 40 minutes when I do that. It’s definitely not sustainable, but it’s either that or she’s up and fussy all day long 😩 have you tried anything?

Naps are getting harder here too. And he just sleeps for 15 min.
The rocking chair works for us.

Yeah I think the 4month sleep regression hits some earlier than later. Mine just turned 3 months and we still swaddle the arms as she hasn’t shown any signs of rolling yet. Then I pat butts with binky for 30+ minutes. Preheat the sheets and use a white noise machine. What really has been helping us get back to 4-5 hrs in between feeds instead of the repeated transfer failures is increasing stimulation during her wake windows after feeds. Sometimes you’ve just gotta really tire them out a bit before soothing back to sleep

Same here I have to carry her to get her to do even 30 mins and she fights me and is up at the smallest sound. Can’t even try putting her down

Me omg I’m so glad I’m not the only one

My 3 month old goes down easy, but only gives me 20-30 min naps. Could your babe have gas pains? Mylicon has worked wonders for my baby. The naps aren’t great, but she’s less fussy during the day and she sleeps pretty well at night.

Yess!!!

If I see my baby resisting *or wakes up immediately after setting down* I just get back up and keep him up a little longer… then the second attempt I either rock him to sleeping(if I fed him less than an hour ago) or feed him again and he sleeps much better second time around. Still pretty short nap but I can tell he falls into deeper sleep and wakes up much happier! They’re babies, they don’t know what resting on demand means yet 😅

Totally! To help my back we sometimes do stroller naps because it’s so nice out

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I really want to go back to sleep but I just know he will wake up the second I get comfy and start to drift off. 😩

Bloody kids!! 🤷🏼‍♀️🙈

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