Tell me it gets easier...

[Sleeplesssister]

Daytime sleep - my DD will only ever nap for 30 minutes max, no matter where she is. Now 7 months and its driving me crazy, no time for me to have any sort of break from her, and worse, she gets so grumpy at baby groups etc so I end up dealing with a fractious child the whole time, making me and her miserable. We manage 3 x 30 minutes naps a day to survive. Nights are much better (touches large piece of wood) but daytime sleeps are cr*p. Tell me they grow out of it, please, before I go nuts...(am already a bit crackers).

dd went from sleeping 20 mins max to a lovely 2-3 hour afternoon nap at about 8 months. you never know...

Please please let it be so. Anything you did to speed the process along mololoko? I don't feed to sleep, have been doing pick up put down for last 3 weeks, I don't rush in when she wakes, and I've read so many baby books that I could literally open my own library...

My DD starting breaking the 45 min nap barrier at about 9 months. Nothing I did affected it, she just did it on her own. I spent all my time obsessing about her naps and now wish that I had tried to worry less. The only thing I can recommend is maybe trying to merge two of naps into one, gradually, to see if this makes her sleep longer. I think my DD starting sleeping longer at her 9 am nap. Otherthanthat if she is overtired by late afternoon try an earlier bedtime.

Uurgh I wish DD 6 months) took 3 30 minute naps. I get 2 a day max - all in buggy. Bookmarking....

sorry to post and run. no, I didn't change anything. one day I put her down at lunchtime (she still had a 30 in morning doze at that point) and she went for 2 hours! couldn't believe it. after that, it was like a switch had flipped and it happened every day. bliss! hang in there, a lot of my friends had the same experience

Mine did this and he's now the best sleeper ever - long nights (6.30pm - 7.30am or sometimes past 8am) and just gone down to one lovely 2-3hr nap in the day. Prior to this he did one long and one short nap.

He did the 45min nap thing for aaages and I used to get him down for 5 naps a day in the very early days! Got better at 5mo. Good luck!

My baby sleeps for longer if he is on me - so he now quite often has a 'long' afternoon nap that consists of 40mins in cot, then 1- 2 hours sleeping on me after I (ahem) feed him back to sleep. Could you try that? I know you don't really get a break except for the bit he will sleep in his cot, but if you can get him back to sleep on you, you get a rest and some downtime away from the full on intense interacting? It has helped me and I used to only get 3 x 40 min naps a day.

oops just read you said 'no matter where she is' so maybe she won't sleep on you either. In which case, sorry!