8 month old -nap problems

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My 8mth old girl has began to crawl and pull herself to standing in her cot.

She has always been a crap napper doin 30/40 mins, but I've always been quite good at getting her down in her cot when she's tired without much fuss. Usually every 2.5/3hrs she needs a snooze resulting in about 3 a day.
Last week she began longer naps which I thought was fab but now back to crap naps.
My routine for getting her down for her cot morning nap is wind her down etc and would happily rock off to sleep then transfer to cot no probs. Or on the odd lucky occasion she would just nod off nicely in her cot.
But now she will push and pull me when I hold her trying to lul her down to sleep so put in cot and although she knackered she pulls herself up and eventually starts to cry etc.
I go in and lay her back down but she just repeats until she is exhausted. So after this long battle she eventually goes to sleep for her 30mins, which means a grumpy baby all day as she became overtired at the beginning of the day.

Does this phase pass?? Am I doin the right thing?? I basically say to myself once she's in the cot, I won't get her out or she will expect this everytime she cries.
Any advice appreciated.
Thanks

It is a phase, and it will pass. She has just started pulling herself up, so her brain is telling her to do it all the time for a while. It's frustrating, but if putting her back down in her cot isn't working, I would try rocking her to sleep again, or doing anything to help her go back to sleep. It sounds like she is waking up after one sleep cycle and can't settle herself again. It's a good idea to get them used to their cot, but IMO overtiredness is a bigger issue at the moment. After she catches up on her sleep, you can tackle the rocking to sleep thing, if needed. Have you tried The No-sleep Nap Solution? It has many good tips.

Sorry, have just realised she resists being held and rocked to sleep. What about rubbing her back, or keeping a hand on her while she is drifting off? Sometimes you have to persevere with rocking/holding, although of course I don't mean forcing her.

Thank you for the response.
The holding and rocking works at times but not always
My bubs doesn't take a dummy and I don't have a cot mobile or light show type thing in her cot. Just a lullaby music from Ewan the sheep.
Not sure with to invest in these other sleeping aids....but we have survived without them til now
Do they work?.

My 9mo is rather gifted at fighting day-time naps too. Walks in the pram are often the solution for her so I wonder if it might work for you to put her in a pram/pushchair where you can strap her in? Since she's accustomed to the cot maybe not but it's a thought.

I have recently posted on the sleep board about a similar issue with my 8 month old who has recently started crawling. He used to take 2 good naps a day in the cot and I had managed to get him to go to sleep on his own in there. But over the last few weeks he has started fighting sleep the minute I lay him down in the cot he cries, if I lay him back in my arms to rock him to sleep he cries it is a nightmare. Basically at the moment he is only going to sleep when he is too exhausted and so falls asleep in the pram or whilst feeding.

He is really bad at night now as well wakes every couple of hours, and to top it off has started being up for hours in the middle of the night. Last night for example he was up from 2am until 5am and woke every 2 hours prior to that.

No advice really I'm afraid just sympathy as I know how frustrating it is. My LO was quite good up until about a month ago, typical that he starts doing this when I am about to go back to work. Anyway hoping it is just a phase that he will grow out of.

My 12 month old has been doing this since she could pull up (around 9 mo) and I'm afraid she still does. Probably with less stubbornness now though. When she realised how tired she is she lays down but it is an effort every time. Sorry, probably not that helpful. I have taken to bringing a book in with me so I can wait her out.