refuses breast before nap times and sleep times

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Hi, has anybody had similar experience: baby starts crying because wants to sleep but does not want the breast - have t jiggle about, give dummy, rock but NO breast - takes sometimes 1.5 hours to get him to sleep... He is BF and most of the time feeds AFTER naps. looking for ideas how to make his settling for nap times more peaceful? wll he ever turn to breast for comfort? at the moment it seems that the breast is not a source of comfort?

Have you tried napping a little earlier so it's easier to get to sleep? How old? DD is 6.5 months and only takes 10 mins at most when I catch her sleepy signs.

Can you feed him before he starts crying?

My dd is 12 weeks and will feed to sleep for day time naps but for some reason will rarely feed to sleep for the night. I have no idea why this distinction. I have found that I now need to keep a really close eye out for sleep signals and start settling her as soon as she looks sleepy. Sometimes it's joggling and sometimes she just want's to be put down and have her hand held.

Either way the key seems to be timing, if I can get in at the right time she will go to sleep like an angel, miss it and we spend hours trying to calm down a crying over tired monster. I tell myself that I should count myself lucky that she will go to sleep without always needing breast as this makes it so much easier for us to go out once in a while and leave her with my dm for the evening, but sometimes I really do miss the quick fix of feeding her till she passed out :o

It is all about the timing. when I miss it then the meltdowns start. Sometimes the meltdowns happen anyway even when I think I have got there in time. Two yawns and it's sleepy time. Get on a boob before the crying starts. If boob refused then get in sling. Often works (although some days nothing seems to work). Mine also feeds mostly after sleeps, he wakes up and goes from 0-60 in two seconds, no gradual stirring with feeding cues, one minute he is sleeping then the next he is wailing!

yes, the timing has helped me - I am watching for sings to avoid too much crying before nap times. My baby is 8 weeks old. He wants to suck on sth before sleeping BUT NOt BREAST? so few days ago I gave him dummy and he loved it, but I feel weird giving him a dummy so sometimes I use finger. I still find it odd that he wants to comfort suck but not on the breast. HEarMyRar, you said that she will sleep without needing the breast - will she suck on a dummy then for comfort?

I feed him only after nap times now. and I need to wait for him to go to nap, wake up ad then have another feed, he will not have a feed if there was no nap...?

I do not know how to change this. my baby is 8+ weeks. I rock him to sleep in a pram as he cries and cries and cries before sleep. how can I change it?

If the dummy works then use it!