DS was a champion napper so I never needed any strategies to get him to nap! So I'm a bit at a loss with DD 3 months old, she has a cold at the moment so has been awful all day, screaming when put down apart from once, clearly bunged up.
But in general she doesn't like to be laid down, sometimes she will lie and play with the toys across her Moses basket or wriggle on a mat on the floor but she doesn't nap readily horizontally. She will nod off in our arms or semi-horizontal on the sofa with her head in someone's lap.
She does nap in the sling but is often just alert but quiet (so it's good if she's crying, except that it's hard to do some things with DS (e.g. lift into high chair) when she's in a sling. When she was younger she would sleep for an hour or even two solid in the sling, but this seems to have gone.
She tends to gaze around when in the buggy (or gaze at the pattern on the inside!, not nap, and DS is heavy and we only have a single buggy anyway. She has never liked a vibrating chair (she just slumps) and though she likes the bouncy chair in front of Washing Machine TV she will maybe have a 20 min nap in it, or will just watch us cook etc.
I basically have no skills in persuading a baby to nap! There seems to be no pattern either to when she naps - except she usually goes back to sleep after her early morning bottle.
She sleeps really well at night thankfully - bottle about 7 or 8, nap on sofa, bottle at 9 and then into a swaddler and sleeps till 5 or 6. So we are not at all sleep deprived, I'm just struggling to get much done, especially with DS at home too.
What works for you? Do I have any hope of a pattern of naps at this age?