How do you get your 10 week old to sleep in the day?

[starfish12]

I'm not using a dummy (he won't take one), so have been putting DS in the sling for his naps to get him off to sleep. If I try and put him down once asleep he wakes up or just does 30 mims at best so I'm spending 5ish hrs per day lugging him around so he can get his sleep. It means I can't snooze which is pretty annoying!
Just wondered if this normal or if he should somehow be napping in his cot?

GOOD QUESTION!!

DS is 13 weeks and last couple of weeks I've taken to co-sleeping him to sleep in the day basically, so I can roll away and get shit done while he sleeps. Sometimes we have to sling it but he half likes it and half despises it so its 50/50 whether it will work. Much prefer the co-sleep method as if I move a muscle while he's sleeping on me, or make a noise, he wakes up.

So we lie tummy to tummy on our bed and sometimes I feed, sometimes he just has his dummy, and he drops off if I ignore him. Then 10 mins later ish when he is fast asleep and with limp limbs I can stealthily roll away longest nap we've managed with this method is 2 hours! That was a good day. Usually about 30-45 mins.

I have no advice but I'm in the same situation so hoping someone comes along with a magic solution. Mine will take a dummy but it doesn't seem to help. She'll only nap for about 20 minutes at a time and then gets very grizzly. Sorry to hear you're having the same trouble but it's good to know I'm not alone.

Hmpf wish I knew. Sleeps for 20mins if I'm lucky then gets crankier and crankier as day goes on BUT WON'T GO TO SLEEP grrrrrr

I want a nap as well

If DD1 is at home, we have to go out and DD2 sleeps in the car seat / pushchair. She can't cope with DD1 buzzing around.

On toddler free days, pushchair is still good. Bouncy chair works, although the length of time she will stay asleep without me bouncing it varies. On me having been fed to sleep is hugely successful. Sometimes I can roll her off my lap onto the chair / settee where I've been sitting, so it's nice and warm.

That wasn't helpful.

I've taken to putting DD down to "play" and as she slows her movements I move back and try not to interact too much, then she falls asleep sometimes

Obviously not ignoring crying though

I am trying to sleep train my 9 week old now. She goes down fairly reliably at night but we got into the habit of letting her fall asleep on us during the day and the inevitable happened. She will now only fall asleep on us and She almost always wakes when transferred to her carry cot. Whilst there is no better feeling than having a tiny baby asleep on your chest I feel I am glued to the sofa for most of the day
So as the weather has been crap I am trying my hand at sleep training. Have cuddled her until she is dozy but not asleep and then transferred her. I pick her up as soon as she goes into full cry. Yesterday I think she slept a max of 15 mins at a time. Today have been at it since 12 45. She is finally asleep, but I think only because she is knackered. Dosent seem to be self soothing. Not feeling this will be successful

My DD is also 10 weeks and has daytime naps in either her boucy chair or the pram if we are out and about.

Really don't worry that your baby is not having daytime sleeps in the cot, he is so tiny still that he really doesn't need disciplined sleep routines, he's too young to get it and their sleep cycles alter so much from week to week (sometimes even day to day!)

Everyone is different so do what feels best for you, but I personally won't be trying to put DD into any fixed routine of my choosing (though she's made her own, sort of - only for what time she goes into bed at night rather than napping downstairs) or any kind of sleep training until she is 6 months old, same as I did with her older sister.

As she was that bit older, she was only napping twice a day and so establishing a routine was so much easier, and was far less stressful for us than for friends who tried doing it as 2 or 3 months.

Whatever you try I hope it works for you