6 Month Old Sleep Help!

[mummatom]

Hello! I have a 6 month old LO who just won't sleep or nap in her cot.

So she slept in a Moses Basket and then (as her room was finished and we didn't have a cot) she slept on a triangle pillow I had while pregnant. She loved it.

Now at 6 months when her room is finished and we have a cot in there so has decided not to sleep. I have tried even putting the pillow in there and she just seems to notice it's in a cot! She will go off in my arms absolutely fine and I can transfer her (sometimes not all the time!) to the pillow if it's on the sofa or on my bed but not the cot. She really refers to be asleep on my chest tbh.

Any ideas why this is? Is it because it's a room she's really never been in before properly? I'd really like to be able to put her down to sleep to do some cleaning during the day and have some bit of my evenings back as we really don't have a bedtime routine either. Any ideas on the best one?

Btw I'm also 4 months pregnant with my second so I'm really feeling the pressure to get this right and my DH isn't exactly helpful and just blames me for pretty much everything including WW2 🙄

Please help!

It probably because she isnt used to it. Mine has never napped in her cot and it's only been the past few months i can put her on the sofa. Before it was either pushchair or me for naps.

A number of things will disrupt sleep over the next year or more (sorry) teeth/colds /sleep regression/growth spurts.

Have you tried white noise. My dd only properly settles with her ewan sheep who glows red and has a heart beat, has to be right next to her face, I decided she likes the sounds and light from when she was in the womb.

It will get better though you need to preservere