My ds is 13 weeks and loves his contact naps during the day and gets a really long sleep doing this. However I would like him to start going down for the odd nap during the day so I can just have some time to just make myself a cuppa. I've been trying to do first nap of the day but as soon as I put him down he wakes. I even do the arm test when he's in my arms to see if he is in a deep sleep and he always seems to be.
Any tips on how I can start reducing the contact naps?
Night routine- bath every night, breast feed then sleep (between 7 and 8 depending on last nap). He goes off in my arms after a BF. We have white noise on and a very dim red light. Some days he let's me put him down in bedside crib but will wake after 15 mins and scream to be held again. I might try 3 times to put him down and if unsuccessful I don't bother. He cosleeps with me and my dh. I have to keep my arm around him and be chest to chest as sleeping next to me on the mattress is still not good enough for him. I'm always in agony during the night with my hips and shoulders. I can't risk changing arms and having him in the middle as dh flips round like a salmon in the night. I love cosleeping as I can get some sort of sleep, albeit very broken sleep with a BF every 2hrs...but he's getting heavy now and my body is breaking!!
Reading about putting a baby to bed drowsy and letting them fall asleep gave me anxiety and made me stress. I tried it and he's far too young for that. I also don't want any info on sleep training just some helpful advice to have a little bit of a break.