How to get baby to nap

[CJ1990]

I’m not sure if I’m expecting to much as my daughter is 10 weeks old, but she’ll only nap in the sling or the pram in the day. For some reason she just want switch off any other way and I’ve tried everything!

I know it’s early days, but I just don’t know what to do! She goes down ok at night in her crib so not sure what it is 🤷🏼‍♀️She can’t nap in the sling for ever!

I’m not sure if she’s napping too much. She has a very vague schedule with her naps which I’ve tracked for the past 2 days so see if I can see any regular nap times:

10th Nov
7:45 get up
09:15 - 09:45 nap
11:00 - 12:00
13:15 - 13:45
15:30 -17:00
19:15 bed

11th Nov
7:45 get up
09:15 - 10:00
11:15 - 12:45
14:00 - 15:00
16:45 - 17:15
19:00 bed

I think I posted something quite similar about my DS at 10 weeks. At 14ish weeks he completely stopped napping in the sling. Now (18 weeks) he naps in his pram, but in our hallway not in motion, which he wouldn't have done a few weeks ago. Looking back I feel so silly for worrying what he'd be like at 10 months (he has to go to nursery then and I thought 'what if he only naps in the sling?!') at 10 weeks - they change so fast. At some point he'll probably be willing to nap in his cot, but at the moment it feels like such a waste of both our time to try when he could just be having a happy little nap in the pram (he's there now!)

Thanks @LisaSimpsonsbff - that’s what’s scaring me! The fact she has no schedule and won’t nap as I have to go back to work at 6 months and she’ll be in nursery! 3 months seems no time at all

As I said I felt the same - I was also militant about not feeding to sleep because I'm also going back at 6 months and then DH is doing the first four months months as shared parental leave and I had visions of him not being able to get him to nap (I figured that at least he, unlike a nursery worker, would be willing to wear him in a sling all day). But I've now gone out and left him with DH for half days and DH can actually get him to settle in the pram easier than me (he can also rock him back to sleep in the night and I can't!) even though I sometimes give up and feed him to sleep for naps. It's like he knows the boobs aren't an option with daddy and so will settle for a cuddle. They do different things with different people and they change so fast (which is frustrating in its own way - you find something that seems to work and then they change their mind again!). Honestly, don't waste your time trying to get a 10 week old into a routine - all you'll do is create certain misery now in the hope of avoiding possible misery in the future. It isn't a good tradeoff!