Where does your baby nap in the day? Want to establish a routine at 3months.

[Jellybabie3]

So similar to my thread about night sleeps - where does your lo sleep in the day? Mine currently only sleeps on me. Id like to start a routine but if sids doesnt recommend them sleeping alone i dont know how i can put him to nap in a dark room or his cot unless i sit with him. Any suggestions? He just wont sleep downstairs unless on me

he might have been but that is not the official advice, backed up by evidence

My now 7 month old DD is pushed arpund in her car seat attached to my pram base and I've done this since about 2 months. She absolutely hated her carrycot and I found she was much happier in the car seat. Just saying.

Maybe she enjoys feeling light headed through reduced oxygen.

Titty slightly more sarky than I'd have put it but yep

Well our GP was fine with it, as were the paeds doctors at the hospital. She screamed blue murder in the carrycot every single time. In the car seat she is happy and contented, alert, playful and can sleep when she is tired on a walk. At home she naps on me.

Oh dear. No need for that I don't think. All mummies are different and we have to do what works for us! I'm sure if it was that dangerous we would be seriously advised against it! Let's just agree that everyone does their best

Couldn't agree more mummaaksm

When my princess was three months she napped either in her cradle downstairs or if I was going to do laundry etc she'd nap in her cot or buggy if we were out. I would put her down at the same time daily where ever we were and she'd be asleep in 10 minutes. But I started a routine of naps and bedtimes at 6 weeks old. Yes she slept other times obviously if she was tired but her set nap times and bed times were done the exact same daily x

The car seat thing was on all the national news programmes, newspapers and radio programmes about 18 months ago.

www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/warning-over-babies-sleeping-in-car-seats/

That’s the link I put up earlier and that study wasn’t actually measuring how long it is safe for infants to be in car seats. It just measured saturation at 30mins. It didn’t look at 20, 25, 35, 45 etc so the researchers have no way of knowing if those durations are more or less safe.

It was a pilot study of whether the current car seat test conducted on preemies (where infants sit in their car seats on the hospital floor for monitoring to check they are safe to go home) accurately represents whether they are safe to use their car seats in a car where the angle of the seat is more acute.

Just because lots of papers ran with a more sensationalist angle does not mean that it is good science reporting and that’s why I asked if any official guidelines had been published on safe durations.

I notice ROSPA say that sleeping in car seats should be discouraged but they also suggest 15min breaks every 2hrs so I wonder if the “no sleeping” advice is more to do with SIDS prevention than oxygen saturation.