8 week old not napping

[Yalmeister]

Firstly, I'm sorry if I used the wrong tag but it's the best fit I could find!

To put it simply, my 8 week old is refusing to nap. I'm aware of the 8 week sleep regression but I'm struggling so much with this.

She has started to sleep better at night time but only due to being overtired. It started as occasional over tiredness where she would scream for hours at a time so our health visitor suggested colic or maybe a milk allergy. We've been giving her lactase drops as instructed but they have made no difference at all.

I know her sleepy cues, I follow all of the recommendations with how to put her down, I've tried every single thing I can find but nothing helps. The last three days I've barely been able to put her down because she screams.

This morning has been different - I wound her down slowly and she started drifting off with a bottle so I put her down before she fell asleep and the minute she was down her eyes popped open again. I left her for ten minutes (stayed by the crib but out of sight with my hand on her chest) and then she started crying. I gave her her bottle in the crib and she started dozing off again (obviously still a bit hungry) and once she let go of the bottle I removed it but stayed next to her and again, she opened her eyes. She's been awake since 8am this morning and now it's 10am and she is obviously exhausted. I've taken her out to change her nappy and pjs then put her back in. She's just laying there making noises at the wall through half open eyes. The other days she has fallen asleep on me but woken and screamed when I put her down or even if I moved to get a drink.

I have to admit this is better than the last three days of nonstop screaming but she needs to nap and just refuses. I'm at a loss. I've got no family near me, no friends, my husband works full time and can't call in sick again to help me or he will be sacked. All the recommendations online are rubbish and don't work for this baby. I had a slightly traumatic birth and I'm not 100% in myself at the moment and it pains me that I can't help her nap. I feel like I'm useless at this and shouldn't have tried to have a child after three previous issues. I remain calm around her at all times but im starting to crack now.

Any words of advise would be greatly appreciated. She needs to nap and I don't know what else to do.

Have you taken her for a walk out in the pram or tried a sling? If I remember rightly this cab be totally normal for babies that age.

She sleeps eventually in the pram but wakes the minute we get home. I do have a sling but she won't sleep in that either. I'm just at a loss now. Today has been better but she's squirming and whinging on me now in tiredness.

My 8 week old is the same. She will nap for hours on me but as soon as I put her down she’s awake. I’m just enjoying the cuddles to be honest. She gets woken so much to do school runs for her big brothers that I think she needs a couple of hours sleep on me in the day or she’s horrific come 6pm.
She will sleep in the sling though if I need to do some house jobs.

I found 8-9 weeks the hardest weeks so far, I mean she's only 10 weeks now but last week was horrific in comparison to this week.

They are absolutely fighting sleep as much as they possibly can during this time but you will see a change next week. Try and put her in the bath and then give her a feed... see what happens.

We're almost 11 weeks now - there was no change and it got worse. I had to beg for the dr to see her and eventually found that it is CMPA despite being told before that it wasn't that. I'm frustrated as heck because this could have been sorted weeks ago but no one would listen!

She's on CMPA formula now and is sleeping, although still fighting her afternoon nap but small and steady steps!