Daytime nap denier - help!

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Dd is 19 weeks old. She is ebf and we mainly co sleep. She wakes several times a night for a feed but sleeps well on the whole at night.

My problem is getting her to sleep in the first place (particularly naps). She just fights it and screams and.screams. She has never gone down.awake, which I don't mind as am happy to cuddle/feed to sleep, if only she'd LET me!

I have always been an advocate of co sleeping, carrying etc but have reached the point where I feel that her inability to fall asleep is making us both miserable.

How can I begin to encourage her to fall asleep more easily without resorting to something like cc? Any suggestions welcome.

Introduce a comforter. Persist with putting down drowsy but awake.

Thanks. She won't accept a dummy unfortunately! Drowsy? We have 'happy' and 'livid', but never drowsy

by comforter i meant a teddy or soft blanket rather than dummy (but even a dummy will do but I know not all kids love them). It might work if you persist. Just to make sure you or bf to sleep is not the only source of comfort..

sounds like she could be overtired possibly?

will she nap in a moving pram (maybe with dark scarf across to block light)? if so, could you try taking her out for regular naps for a few days - enforced napping iyswim - and see if she calms down and goes to sleep/gets drowsy more easily once she has caught up on sleep.