i've got a catnapper…. what works for you?

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my 6 week old has not managed a daytime nap of longer than 25 mins until today, when i did the old hairdryer trick and amazingly he slept for an hour and a half. Although he was absolutely exhausted and he could have just been crashing….

Does anyone have any other tips?

Although he sleeps for 2 or 3 hours at a time at night, he is constantly crabby and overtired in the day and can take around 3 hours to settle on an evening. i'm sure its not good for him.

Where does he usually sleep?

i always try his moses basket first, but if that fails i'll rock him in his chair, carry him in his sling or take him out in the pushchair - all of them (apart from his moses basket) get him off to sleep quite quickly but he still wakes up shortly afterwards.

My 4 week old is exactly the same m. Terrible napper in the day and takes AGES to get to sleep in the evening, like 2-3hrs of feeding and rocking to sleep. I would love to see what advice people have.

Bump!

Not sure about it, TBH.
With my DS we used to be very silent, so that he wouldn't wake up. But other babies sleep well with noise.

Do you put him to sleep in the dark? Or in any room?

My 14 week old is similar. I've found a vibrating chair with ssshhhing and a dummy, a car ride and walks in the pram all help to get longer naps. The car works the best but I save that for when he's overtired and fighting a nap completely because I don't want to drive him around all the time. The pram works the next best and I use that the most. He seems to love movement to go to sleep.

thanks Lweji - he definitely likes it quiet and dark and just so (pernickety little rascal), but this is a bit tricky at nap-time with a 2 year old sister. He does like motion - i'm thinking of getting him a swing. I know they're not supposed to sleep in them but I reckon I can get him into a deep sleep and move him. I'd be interested to know if the swings have been good for anyone else??