I don't know how dense I'm being so please forgive me if I'm being daft (blame new mum lack of sleep slowness!).
I had LO 8 weeks ago. She's a great night sleeper - she sleeps 4-6 hour stretch, wakes up, feeds, then another 3-4 hours.
She is TERRIBLE at naps. I want to focus on improving her naps - she won't nap on me for long - maybe 20 minutes until I move or some noise wakes her up. Sometimes I swaddle her and put her down and manage to get a 40 minute nap out of her but they are few and far between. We end up at the stage where she's so overtired she starts to fight naps hard.
All the health advice I have read says baby is to sleep in the same room as me for the first 6 months, including day time sleep. But all the advice to improve naps says baby should be in a pitch black dark room, swaddled, with white noise - like night time sleep... so am I meant to sit in the room with her while she naps? In the dark? 3-4 times a day?
I am confused! Do you leave baby in their cot for naps?
Any help would be very appreciated!
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booandbumpp · 29/11/2020 19:27
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