I am having trouble with daytime naps...
My DD is now 3 months old and naps seem to be getting worse rather than better. I've just spent 3 hours trying to get her to sleep. I have been patting/shushing, rocking, feeding etc and in the end for the last half an hour / hour she has become sooo overtired and was SCREAMING inconsolably and even boob wouldn't calm her down! I don't think there is anything else wrong, although she has been particularly fussy over the last week which I know could be a developmental spurt, but surely then she must NEED sleep?
I have been doing what I have always done and look out for her tired signs and try to put her straight down (after a cuddle and maybe a quick feed), but this week she has been having none of it
All the sleep books/websites say to put baby into their cot, but I don't see how you can do that when they are so young and (supposedly) having 3-4 naps per day as it would mean being restricted to the house pretty much permanently, so instead I have tried 'going with the flow' during the day and getting on with what I want to (out and about etc) in the hope that she would take what sleep she needs in the pram/car etc, but that doesn't seem to work.
So, for the last 3 days i have pretty much stayed in the house (apart from baby massage yesterday) to try and get a bit of a nap 'routine' going, but clearly that isn't working either. In fact I think today has been the worst day - she napped for about 25 mins at 10 am (after getting up at 8am) and then nothing until about 3.15pm, hence the overtiredness!!
She does sleep well at night from 9-4ish, then feeds and goes back to sleep 'till about 8 (or at least she did up until about a week ago and she has now started to wake at 2.30/3.00!) - and she generally goes down pretty easily at night too, again except for last night when we resorted to Calpol as she was screaming then too and I thought she might be in pain...
It's making me feel pretty crap as I can't do anything or go anywhere when she is like this or she will just cry. She's miserable when she is tired and it's making me miserable.
Any tips anyone?
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Daytime naps (lack of) driving me to distraction - please help!
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curlyLJ · 17/06/2010 15:45
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