Napping nightmare

[Ellajayden]

My 4 month old son the past two weeks has become an absolute nightmare when it comes to napping nothing seems to work anymore he used to fall asleep on his own to white noise in the day time but now the only way he will nap is to be held and rocked this can sometimes take up to an hour in till he finally dozes off and he has to be held the whole time otherwise he will wake up, by the evening he is so grumpy and over tired where he has only slept for 1 hour in total all day, I've tried putting him in his crib and all he dose is cry, he won't fall asleep in a sling and the pram now no longer works either has anybody got any advice?

Firstly, limit just awake time in the day. Expect to have 1h of awake time between naps (including a feed in this time) and then start working on getting baby back to sleep. The idea is that baby is awake now more than 90 minutes in one go.

Try giving baby a dummy. Comfort sucking is nature's way to sooth and calm baby. You may need to tap on the outside of the dummy to get baby actively sucking.

Try having naps in a bouncy chair. Position the bouncer st your feet by the sofa. After 1h awake time put fed baby into the bouncer with a dummy. Keep on relentlessly and non stop rhythmic bouncing with your foot. Have the TV remove and a cuppa to hand and just keep going.

This is my aim every day to try and get him down for a nap after 1 hour and a half hours of awake time but he's just not having any of it, and the annoying thing is if my partners here he can get him to sleep in a matter of minutes , think I'll give the bouncy chair a go tomorrow but normally he wants to look around whilst he's in it and kick his legs