Contact nap help 😭😭

We're the same and with the addition of wanting to be held and carried all day too.

Have you tried a carrier for the day time naps? Gives them the closeness of the contact naps and you your hands back to be able to do things? I do admit that going down in the cot once or twice would be wonderful to give some body autonomy back though

You're def not alone! Same for me - but at least one of the contact naps is in the carrier. Pram? no way. Cot during the day? lol. Cot at night for the first part of the night and co sleep sencond part... I can't wait for 6 months and move her into a floor bed and see if that helps - my boy was the same and it worked wonders!! xx

I use the carrier for some contact naps in the house. You can’t do everything you want to do but it’s handy for getting some jobs done xx

Same! Every.single.nap is contact as she feeds to sleep but wakes when I transfer. She used to sleep in the pram, but now because shes so much nore alert she cries when I put the hood down 🫣
I started to think i was creating a bad habit, but you know what we will really miss these contact naps when they grow up, and babies NEED the comfort that they receive during these contact naps so im happy to just ride it out until she grows into the next phase. Which they will do by themselves 👌💖

Following for ideas as in the same boat. Mine is starting to get frustrated with the contact naps as she's starting to turn a bit but she still won't go in her next to me during the day but I will miss them when they end but sometimes I just want to be able to pee or answer the door or phone.

I was really struggling with this - the only thing that worked was replicating her night time environment. I started putting her down awake and when that doesn’t work, she will fall asleep drinking a bottle. Sometimes she will go straight to sleep, others she will spit out her dummy a few times and I have to go back in and replace it, but she eventually goes to sleep! I just kept persisting and we got there in the end! Now she never contact naps and I really would like her to now and then 🤣

I was contact napping for a WHILE, you have to be persistent in the putting bubba down when they're asleep, my baby now sleeps in his next to me right after I put him down and I get a deeper better sleep at night

My little boy still contact naps atm (going to start putting him in his cot for the first nap of the day when he hits 4 months at the end of this month) but my little girl who is 3 was like this at first, it’s completely normal as they can’t connect their sleep cycles yet, which is why I only ever put her down at first for the first nap of the day when their sleep pressure is the highest, one day it just clicked and she slept in the cot for over an hour and then everytime after that! One day it will just click xx

I’m in the exact same position! My boy sleeps so well through the night and will only wake up for a feed but goes straight back to sleep. However in the day time he will only ever nap on me. As soon as you put him down he will be awake within 5 minutes and cry for me to come pick him up. It’s soo hard to find the time to eat, clean, wash🥲