Naps
How do you get your babies to nap in the day? What’s the process… do you rock then lay down for example once asleep? My son only likes napping in the carrier or if I do manage to put him down I have to rock until asleep, lay down on his side and tap his bum but independent naps don’t last long at all. I want to get him napping better on his own but the process is so long!!!!
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My little girl doesn’t independently nap well but buggy naps, car naps or co-sleeping naps work best for us. They won’t be napping forever so it’s whatever you can get away with and works for you for now 😊
Pram naps work best for my wee boy at the moment 😊 he seems to like the movement of going forwards and backwards in it
Mine falls asleep while nursing most of the time. Sometimes in the buggy if we're out for a walk. He doesn't really sleep independent naps in the daytime yet, so we do contact naps.
I rock my baby when I can see they’re tired and then I put them down drifting but awake or as soon as they’ve closed their eyes. Sometimes he will fall asleep straight away and other times he’ll fall asleep for a min and wake up and cry as he wants to be held! So I repeat the process and put him down again until he eventually falls asleep
went through a good phase of pram naps but were contact naps only these days unless i walk and walk and walk!
We've just this week started putting him in his big cot for daytime naps but he only naps for 45 mins a time. I take him to his room 15 mins before hes due to go down (using huckleberry app for guidance and its working so well for us), make the room dark and use white noise and it seems to be doing the trick. I usually wait until hes either just asleep or fast asleep before placing him and walking away and i tend to get about 30-40 mins time to get things done and its life changing haha. Nightimes are now becoming a different story and feel the 4 month sleep regression is fully kicking our butt's!!
My little one usually falls asleep whilst on my boob. The first morning nap she will let me put her down, but otherwise it’s contact naps during the day! She also likes to sleep in the car too. Baths usually help sleep
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Naps
How do you get your babies to nap in the day? What’s the process… do you rock then lay down for example once asleep? My son only likes napping in the carrier or if I do manage to put him down I have to rock until asleep, lay down on his side and tap his bum but independent naps don’t last long at all. I want to get him napping better on his own but the process is so long!!!!
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I’ve made a rod for my own back 😩
My baby girl is almost 11 weeks old and over the last week or so her false starts at night have gotten worse! Once she is asleep at night she generally only wakes once or twice for a little feed, but it can take hours to get to that point.
I just want to soak it all up so the ‘1 nap a day in the bassinet’ hasn’t been happening consistently, so I know this is the first thing to start doing.
At bedtime (whatever that is 🥴) I am feeding, changing, and rocking her to sleep and then transferring - which again, I know isn’t helping the false starts.
I just cannot let her get so upset/distressed before sleeping! How do I make these changes without just leaving her to work out that she needs to sleep?
Any tips would be much appreciated!
From one tired mumma and one cuddly baby 🥹
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