7month old won't nap alone and I have a 2.5 year old....help!,

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Ok, so I have a 7 month old who, like my first is a nightmare sleeper. He's exactly the same, if you put him in a cot to go to sleep he just play and when he gets fed up cries and cries until I just physically couldn't leave him there anymore and my daughter gets stressed and upset because she can hear her little brother crying and can't understand the whole thing. It's just drama.
So he gets tired and I will set dd up with something independent and get him to sleep rocking or patting him lay on my chest. I can leave him there 5 minutes or 15 minutes, he's flat out but the second I put him down he wakes up. I've tried crib, Moses basket, a change mat with blanket you name it. Same if he goes asleep in the car, the second I go to get him out he's awake. I have to admit upfront dd was the same and I just used to let her nap on me, but that was a luxury I don't have now I have a 2 year old too. Dd does not have daytime naps anymore so we can't all sleep together.
He's getting so cranky and irritable it's just not nice. At the minute he probably goes to sleep 3 times during the day never for longer than 15 minutes often just for 5.
Any advice? Please don't say shove him Ina cot and let him cry it out because I won't do that, end of.

What about leaving it twenty minutes and putting him on his tummy?

I put ds in front of the tv, cuddled dd to sleep. I used to leave her in with a light up toy which helped. I also had naps out - does he nap in a pushchair? Would he stay asleep in the pushchair if he's parked in the hallway?

I don't mean leave him twenty minutes, I mean holding him for twenty minutes as will be in a deep sleep.

Have tried putting him on his tummy and on his side, that's how he sleeps at night - on his side. He will go down at might, he still goes asleep on me them I put him in cot but he does stay asleep then. He does sleep in the puschair as long as it's moving, once we're back inside or go into a cafe and stop for 5 minutes he wakes 9 times out of 10.

You need to make sure he's asleep for twenty mins - that's when they go into a deep sleep. I also used a snooze shade and white noise on my phone to block the light and noise.