This sounds a lot worse than it is, honest!
DD is 1 year old, and only starting having proper naps at 7 months when I did some sleep training with her. I found that she will nap for about 2 hours most days at 9am and 2pm is I walked her in her buggy. I've slowly decreased the amount of walking, have left her to cry in it stationary, and she now goes to sleep within 5-10 mins of me putting her in it.
I'm now trying to transfer her to having at least some naps in bed, esp as I'm having dc2 in december and would like to 'reclaim' her buggy! I've started the transfer by taking the buggy seat off and getting her to go to sleep in it in her room. This is working fine and so I'd like to move her further on towards naps in bed. however, if she's not strapped in, she just gets out, gets up, goes to the gate at the door, crying and crying. (We're using a floor bed instead of a cot, and I'm wondered if a cot would help or if she would just cry at the bars of her cot.) The crying means she gets worked up rather than going off to sleep.
Any ideas how I can get her sleeping more independently?