Could someone answer a sleep question about my 8 week old baby please!?

[McDreamy]

Why does she go down with no fuss for her daytime naps in her cot, semi awake but will have none of it at bedtime despite being ready for bed. If I hold her at this time she will sleep for 4 hours.

What am I missing/doing wrong?

nothing probably.

Only thing I can think of, is noise. Maybe during the day your baby is hearing nice reassuring household noises, voices etc. Whereas at night maybe it's all a bit weirdly silent and quiet and it freaks her out. Could try a bit of music or white noise. Or maybe she just likes being held by her mum. Which is lovely and snuggly, and you could just carry on doing that. She is very little after all (banish all thoughts of developing bad habits from your brain, it won't matter a jot, and will probably all change again in 2 weeks).

Really? Because I'll be honest that's exactly what I'm thinking Lady. I have absolutely no problem holding her in fact I am quite enjoying it!

Yes, I was told (and it was in a book too, so must be true) that sleep associations aren't formed until around 4 months. So maybe when she's a bit older and more settled, you can start to develop a bedtime routine, (just come up with a pattern of actions and repeat it, there's no 'right' bedtime routine) that she'll start to associate bath, book, feed, cuddle (for eg) with bed. But for now, if you don't have a problem with it, then it's not a problem !

Enjoy it. Honestly, I now it often feels like what you're doing now with your baby is what you'll be doing forever but babies have a way of changing and developing and throwing a new trick down for you to work around, oohh every couple of weeks or so..just about whenever you think you've got it worked out.

know even.

Thanks - feeling crap this evening though. She ended up crying herself to sleep while I sorted my other 2 out (yes I have 2 other children - you'd think I would know what I'm doing ). Feel really crap that she had to do this

Oh please don't feel bad. You did what you had to do. The other Dcs needed attention that had to be done. Stop beating yourself up. Tomorrow's another day and all that. Agree with LadyBee btw just go with the flow.

~Could you possibly put her in a sling while you sort the other two out? Or have her in a bouncy chair in the room with you?

Look for the least stress for everyone solution!

And don't beat yourself up if one night's gone a bit wrong - there are plenty more!

With hindsight that's what I should have done but I was so disorganised last night and I kept saying to myself I'll just finish this and then I'll get to A but it didn't happen and she eventually fell asleep. We're having lots of cuddle this morning!