10 week old naps

[Beewhisperer]

Does anyone have any tips on getting my 10 Wk old dd to nap anywhere but on me?

She goes down quite well on a night and will sleep for a few hours at once but is absolutely terrible for fighting naps during the day.
She will only fall asleep in the day if being jigged or in the sling and wakes immediately if I put her down. I have tried a Moses basket, bean bag, bouncy chair, sofa but she wakes whatever I put her on.
She usd to sleep in the pram but even this has stopped working.

She is constantly grumpy and over tired. So difficult to settle.

I would just like to be able to pop to the loo or get some lunch while she sleeps.
Any ideas?

Dummy

Sorry, that was far too bluntly put

Have you tried a dummy? Many babies find comfort sucking very soothing.

I would use alongside movement (bouncy chair, pushchair etc).

Try to make sleep as easy as possible. Your presence and reassurance is also comforting, so eye contact, shushing, physical contact, patting, tickling, stroking etc

Try

Swaddling

Or a sleeping bag as I think it has the same affect

Warm up the Moses basket mattress beforehand by sitting on it. My sister read that the temperature difference from your arms to a mattress can wake them up/disturb them.

Put an item of your worn clothing into the Moses basket so that she can still smell you

Instead of jiggling, if DS isn't sleeping well, I hold him with his head on my shoulder and gently rock back and forth in my seat. He seems to prefer that to jiggling or bouncing. Once he's sleepy, he will sleep almost anywhere.

Thank you for your replies.
She has a dummy and I have tried putting s heat pack in th Moses basket.

Getting her to nod off is a bit tricky but the main problem is getting her to stay asleep when I put her down. She can be dead to the world but wakes up as soon as she leaves my arms.
I'm spending ending all day sitting on the sofa holding her.
The only think I haven't tried is taking her up to bed and sitting in the dark but I'd really don't want to spend all day upstairs in the dark.

My daughter was like this for ages as well. We eventually gave in and just held her on the couch! Once she got a bit bigger we could wedge her in with cushions and escape to the loo. Good luck!

I find (and I have an 11 week adjusted old) the only way she stays asleep in a cot is if she falls asleep in a cot. So I never attempt a transfer. My other tip is that it takes a week of consistency for babies to get used to a new thing. So a few weeks ago I started putting my dd in the cot for all naps. I followed some advice about making her cot (it's actually a cosleeper) a lovely sensory place with lights/mobiles/toys. When she's been awake about an hour or is starting to look tired (whichever comes first) we go up and I put her in. We spend 5- 10 mins playing/looking at toys/books/lights (so she's happy in the cot) and then I turn off the lights, put on some white noise, lie with her and pat/shush her until she falls asleep. The first few days she wasn't so happy with this as she was used to sleeping on me. I picked her up when she was upset and waited until she was calm and then put her back in. I find a loud shhhhh in her ear can help calm her while she's lying down, as can gentle rocking and rubbing of her body. She likes to stare at Ewan's red light as she falls asleep. She now grumbles for maybe twenty seconds as she falls asleep but will go in there happily and sleep for 50ish mins at a time. The only time it's not so easy is if I've let her get too tired before trying

the main problem is getting her to stay asleep when I put her down

Stop beating yourself up looking for an answer to that one. There isn't one. Either:

(a) Get her to sleep without being held
(b) Don't put her down. Keep holding her

I prefer (a). Have you tried a bouncy chair and dummy? Just keep reinsertibg dummy at any grumble and bouncing into submission. You then don't have to move baby once asleep.

I have tried putting her down tired and bouncing in the chair or putting in Moses basket awake. She will lay there happily for ten mins or so and then screams and screams end only stops when she is picked up. By this point she is so over tired that she is inconsolable.

Thank you for all of your replies, I feel like I'm being really negative about suggestions but I feel like I've tried everything. Even going out is hard now because she won't go to sleep in the pram and ends up screaming.

You could sit on the floor and cuddle all the way around her while in the bouncer. Face-to-face, cheek-to-cheek full contact type cuddle. Then keep reinserting and tapping the dummy if she cries. Shushing, cuddling close, stroking face, tapping dummy (to encourage sucking).

It's not going to be A Magic Answer.

She s not going to just be put on the bouncer and tad-da. You just have to be relentless. Just. Keep. On. Going. Bounce Bounce, cuddle in bouncer, face stroke, dummy, cheek-to-cheek reassurance, kisses, closeness, bounce, bounce, bounce... relentlessly.

Oh - and make sure baby has a full tummy. You're unlikely to get a contented hungry baby.