Hi all - my baby girl is 22 weeks old, and I am really struggling to establish her lunchtime nap. Up until about 4 weeks ago, I was generally out and about between about 11.30am - 3.30pm and she would sleep in her buggy a good proportion of that time (on reflection, too long). She has never been a "natural" at sleeping during the day - even as a newborn rarely fell asleep on breast during daylight hours, or on me when being cuddled - hence why I was out so much as it was really only the buggy / baby bjorn that worked.
She is a good sleeper at night (for the minute), and my main motivation isn't to get a 2 hr break in the day. It's just that she is so active, I can see how desperately she needs the sleep and she is indeed used to getting it, but with winter approaching, needs to learn to get it in her cot.
She currently goes for 40 minutes (her first sleep cycle), and I use sleep training methods (entering at intervals and giving reassurance) to get her to re-settle, which she always does, between 10-30 minutes, and will on a good day sleep for another whole sleep cycle of 40 minutes - and still wakes up tired! I feel terrible still doing the sleep training (it has been a week now), but also terrible to "give up" on helping her establish a decent daytime nap, because I know how important it is for her, and it breaks my heart to still see her tired. Before I started sleep training, I had tried every method under the sun to get her to back to sleep after the end of her sleep cycle - feeding, dummy, rocking etc.
interested in whether other users have had similar problems and what they have done to implement the lunchtime nap - or am I doing the right thing and it will just take more time?
Many thanks