Why does my baby cry when enters bedroom??

[milcmxxx]

So my baby is almost 4 months and whenever it’s nap time (I’ve been having a hard time with naps lately...) and I take her into my bedroom she cries - literally as soon as we walk through the door. She hates nap time!! It’s weird tho because for bedtime she doesn’t cry even tho she knows it’s bedtime. It’s really upsetting me knowing I’m upsetting her. Does anyone have any advice?

Put her to nap somewhere else, and vary her nap locations a bit.

My baby naps in the living room with us. If she doesnt like napping there, nap somewhere else?

Yeah I’m gonna try somewhere else, she’s fine once she’s asleep it’s just the initial going in the room! I was thinking it’s more nap time she hates than the room, like she associates it with it xx

I would try something else. I would personally as a Mum hate to spend twice a day sitting her in room while she sleeps - do you not get bored?

She might be tired/overtired by the time ypu come into your room to put her down for her nap and that's wht she is crying, rather than the actual room itself. Make sure you are following appropriate wake windows for her age and try putting her down 10 minutes before you actually want her to be asleep.

Does she have a toy or object that she likes? Give it to her before you take her into her room so she has it to settle down with.

Do you have a pram? My DDs used to sleep in the pram downstairs, or in a moses basket on the table or wedged in a corner on the sofa.

She usually gets tired after about an hour and a half and this has only been the last two weeks I’d say, no issues before :( she woke up about an hour ago and that nap was a success, maybe I’m just missing her window a bit, thanks everyone!

@Selfsettling3 noooo I love the snuggles, and she doesn’t nap on me every time :) sometimes she falls asleep on me and then I put her down. I know I’m kind of breaking the rules by doing that instead of letting her fall asleep on her own but I don’t care, once she’s asleep she has a good sleep😂 xxx

@Fanthorpe we have introduced a little soft toy before bed time so it’s there after her bath and we take it through with her :) x

Did I read the age right? If your baby is three months old she should be in the room with you for all naps so that would mean a Moses basket or pram carry cot etc.

@Junebug2020 yes she is in the room with me?

You are definitely not doing the wrong thing by cuddling her at all. In fact the opposite. My 10 month old sleeps in bed all night and often naps in the sling. I just had an incorrect vision of you sitting in a chair watching her sleep.

@Selfsettling3 ohhh god no!! 😂 I’d be beyond bored, when I do put her down for naps I’m like right I can either eat/sleep/tidy up/shower - whichever is most important at the time haha

You're really confusing me now... So she isn't in the room with you!

@junebug2020 oh come on. The safe sleeping guidelines are just that; guidelines. Its up to the parents if they want to follow them or not. Its not for you to make people feel bad.

Time after time parents on here will post they have no idea what the guidelines actually meant.

Nobodies asked about the guidelines though

OP asked for advice about baby crying when entering bedroom. Maybe not having naps in there during the day would help? Unless the mum wants one too of course!

Thats not the safe sleeping guidelines though is it? Correct me if im wrong, but thats what you were alluding too in your previous posts about being in the same room as napping babies?

OP just asked for some advice as to why her baby didnt seem to like going into a certain room for daytime naps. Nothing to do with safe sleeping guidelines.

If someone asks which forward facing seat would be best for her four month old, would no one point out that putting a baby that age into such a seat wasn't recommended?

The point is that nobody asked, you took it upon yourself to try to have a pop at someone.

'Wake Windows ' ?????

@Junebug2020 have I missed something? 😂 my baby naps on me 90% of the time. The other times when I put her down do you expect me to just stay in the room with her? I have a baby monitor which is with me at all time’s but I have stuff to do!! Like shower, eat etc I would rather do that when she’s asleep than awake so that I can give her my full attention when she is awake. I don’t get what you mean? And I also don’t get why you’re so bothered!!

@littlemeitslyn she’s usually up about an hour and a half x

I wouldnt worry OP. Theres always a member of the baby sleep police about.