My baby hates to nap

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Hi everyone!

I’m a new mum and my baby girl is 3 months old. She absolutely hates sleep, at night I can put her in her Moses basket on her own and she will get herself off to sleep. In the day is another story.

She fights sleep so much that every time it ends up in an absolute melt down of lots of crying.

I swaddle her, take her to her room where it’s dark, feed her, give her her dummy, rock her, walk around with her, shush her, pat her. I’ve literally tried everything to get her off to sleep and she just wriggles, fussed and cries every single time!

I’m losing the will to live, any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks x

How long is your baby going between naps? My little one does this when she’s over tired. We started working to a 90 minute ‘awake window’ and then putting her down for a nap. So irrelevant of how long she’s napped for previously, if she’s been awake for 90 mins, then put her down. It really worked for us and she naps much better during the day now

Yeah possibly overtired. It sounds exhausting. A walk in the pram might help.

So far it’s around 60mins, but when she naps it can range from 20 minute to 1 hour. It’s just getting her off to sleep is the hard part, she does everything to indicate she’s tired (rubs eyes, constantly yawns etc) but I will definitely extend to 90 minutes!

I live in the Middle East and it’s summer time now so it’s too hot to go outside unfortunately, we have to contend it’s just walking round the house 🤦🏼‍♀️

Do as you're doing, snuggle her in close, then try gently rubbing your thumb down her forehead from hairline to tip of nose, do it rhythmically and gently. As your thumb passes between her eyes she will close them automatically. The more you do it the longer her eyes will stay shut for until hopefully she sleeps.
Good luck.