8 week old won’t nap. Advise please!

[NewBabyGirl2020]

Hello,

I’m totally lost for ideas and it’s breaking my heart and patience. I have a beautiful 8 week old baby girl that resists sleep all day. She sleeps during the night, waking every 2 hrs for a feed and goes straight down to sleep after. During the day she will not nap and I’ve tried everything. She gets so grumpy and yawns after 1hr of being awake but I can’t get her to nap. She won’t sleep on the boob, screams in the sling and pram, bouncers don’t work, nor does swaddling as she punches her way out, spits out dummy after 5 mins and white noise does nothing.
Only way I can get her down is bouncing on a pregnancy ball for about 30mins+ till she nods off, then will wake about 20mins later screaming as I have to move to the sofa before my back breaks. She wakes up every time I put her down so has to sleep on me.

Feel I’m at emotional breaking point as I don’t know what I’m doing wrong and can barely do anything, let alone leave the house for fresh air. She has been like this since she was 4 weeks.

Everyone else I know have babies that just nap and I can’t understand why my girl isn’t.

I have a strong milk flow and lots of milk. She will only feed just after waking up, if I try after this she screams after 2 sucks because she doesn’t have the patience to deal with the amount of milk I have.

EBF and very healthy baby. Where am I going wrong? Tips and tricks please? Thank you

I have a feeling around this she babies have a bit of a leap so are generally harder work!!

What worked for my dd was to treat naps the same as bedtime, I had a nap routine, the room had to be really dark (black out blinds) made sure she was fed and clean and put her in her sleeping bag.

I would sit near by but try and ignore her if she grumbled, if she was screaming I'd pick her up and cuddle recheck all of the above things and then repeat.

I think you have to be prepared that this could take a while for her to get the hang of but once my dd realised it was sleep time it was life changing!!

Generally dd would need a nap about an hour or two after waking up.

Car? I drove my non sleepers around a lot in the early days.
Also a mommas and Papas Swing Chair. It has a quite forceful swing and that would put them to sleep.

My first was like this. A swinging chair was about the only rest I got.

Thank you for all your advise! Really appreciate it. Will try a swinging chair! X

Hi OP
Have you tried expressing at bit? She might be able to feed better that way? Someone suggested it to me. My daughter was happier as she could then cope with the slower flow, the jet propelled milk was nearly drowning her because she couldn't swallow fast enough because she was so small.. I saved the spare milk and my husband cup fed it to her mid afternoon when my supply was at its lowest.

Is there someone else that can have a go? Sometimes babies pick up on your stress, so someone else might have more success. The added bonus is you get a break too.