10m old will only nap after nursing

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My 10 month old will only fall asleep for naps while nursing - she's combi fed but only breastfeeding sends her to sleep, not even a bottle. She can fall asleep fully independently at night but can't or won't in the day.

On the rare occasion we've tried to break the sleep association she'll stay awake for 6+ hours before conking out but I don't know whether going "cold turkey" and just waiting for her to fall asleep would be bad for her with the excessive awake windows.

If I put her in the cot for a nap without feeding to sleep she flips straight over and crawls/climbs around. I've tried leaving her in the cot with me sat next to her and she doesn't settle. Doesn't make a difference if she's got a full tummy.

Will she grow out of this? If we went "cold turkey" would she learn to settle at the right time according to her wake windows or will it always be 6+ hours then conking out? She'll be starting nursery in a few months and I don't want her to refuse naps there and have an overtired meltdown.

She's very bright and energetic and interested in the world so I think she just doesn't want to switch off when there's so much do.

I’d try feeding her til sleepy but awake, putting her in her cot and shushing and patting her. Give her lots of sleepy cues - comforter or dummy - that she can take to nursery with her and use them at every sleep time.

Sit by the cot shushing & patting and lay her back down every time she gets up. The first nap time will probably take an hour but within a few days you should crack it in my experience.

What do you do differently to put her to sleep at night? Make the room dark ? Sleeping bag ? Anything else?

Thanks @StacySoloman and @shouldistop . I actually tried rocking her to sleep on Friday which worked and it only took 20 mins - she must have been ready to stop feeding to sleep too as it's never happened before. So we've been rocking to sleep since and my plan is to gradually reduce the help we give her until she can fall asleep for naps on her own. Early days to say for sure but her naps have been reliably longer since, she was quite often only a 30 min napper before.