PU/PD for naps

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My 5 month old DD is pretty good at night but naps have been shortlived. She started finally taking them at about 3 months, but they are now rather erratic and only settles about twice a week. The rest of the time I have to walk with the pram. I have PND and enough is enough.

We plan to try PU/PD for her naps. We normally give her a bottle (full feed) before a nap and often dozes on it and goes down for her nap dozy, but sometimes awake and settles herself. So she can do it.

Has anyone done it for naps and with how much success? And how the hell do you identify their 'mantra' cry?

Not done PUPD as my LO is only 15 weeks and it seems to stimulate her more picking her up! Have used - swaddling for naps, shush/pat and a short routine (nappy change, mobile on, dummy in) - works reasonably. Have gone from random napping mostly 30mins to regular naps with 2 hrs midday.

I had a bit of a routine, but she just seems so hit and miss now. I don't know whether PU/PD is the right way to approach it, but we need to do something.

Isn't 5 months meant to be too young for PUPD as it burns too many cals?

The BW book says okay from 4 months up

hiya, we did it at about that age and worked well for night sleeps but oddly took longer to work for day naps as dd would get beyond the sleep window iyswim. I reckon if you set a few weeks aside and really stick to it though you would get there.

Weeks? Weeks? oh christ

I had my mum guide me on the mantra cry, its not the kind of cry that would produce a sob, more of a cross/frustrated/protest cry. I will leave dd for this but anything more distressed and she gets in a right state. I used the shush pat with a 'gentle' PU/PD and within 2-3 wks (sorry) I could put baby down wide awake singing with hiccups et al and she would self settle. Nights are not nailed however, she seems very sensitive and unsettled in the evenings - we are working on this!

2 to 3 weeks sound bearable. Maybe. I was imagining about 5 weeks or something.