Share please! How do YOU get your 3 month old to nap?

[BirchfosterUK]

Hi all FTM here to a 3 month old boy called Ezra!

My little one is GREAT at night. He sleeps around 7.30pm-5.30/6am he does this with assistance (typically feeding/rocking etc.)

My issue is mainly with daytime. He will only sleep with us stood up and rocking/singing we’ve tried:

Walking in pram
Swing
Vibrating chair
Just leaving him laid down with dummy etc.

He used to nap after feeds when he was little but obviously as he’s gotten bigger he’s gotten more challenging.

So how do YOU all get your little ones to sleep during the day? Interested to see if anyone has the same issue?

Worth noting: he is also now not letting us put him down once asleep for naps, so we have to stand, rock (considerable amount of time!) and then sit down slowly.

Also: we’re paying attention to sleep cues and putting him to sleep within 1-2 hours of wake time.

With that nighttime sleep I would have the energy to rock ten babies

Have you tried a sling? DD takes all her naps in one. Maybe manage 2-3 pram naps a week; 1 feed to sleep nap a fortnight at her discretion. First nap of day = easy, pop her in sling and she's out like a light. Final nap = wrestle angry octopus into sling and do the Mr Motivator-meets-Zumba routine for an hour til she caves

Sling! Ds almost exclusively napped in the daytime in our sling for the first 4 months of his life. Then occasionally pram, car seat over next few months but mostly sling still. He slept amazingly at night too and is such a cuddly boy, I think the sling helped him to feel really secure and wished I'd had one for my dd!

@burritofan haha! I’ve not tried sling much I’ve got two but not been brace enough to do it! I have wrap one and an Ergobaby omni.

Any carrier tips? What’s the best time to pop him in... straight after feed, ready for nap time etc.?

Erm, I shove her in after I've got her dressed and nappied and me showered and dressed and made coffee. We dance around to the Beach Boys for a bit, she naps, I sit on the sofa and drop toast crumbs on her head. Rest of the morning we wander aimlessly around town/parks/baby cinema and she nods off as and when; if it's a struggle I jump around a bit, check her nappy, offer a feed, try again. Final nap cued by tired signs.

I'm not terribly routiney, though... perhaps this is why she wakes 800 times a night. ::wanders off to poke ashes of the bonfire in which I burned the baby manuals::

I have the same issue as you! DD is 11 weeks and just like napping on me but today i tried putting her in her sleepyhead in a dark room with loud white noise and dummy and she had 30 minutes nap in there on her own.
Managed to do this twice today which is a small win!
She used to nap in her swing but now refuses to do that... what works one week may not work the next.

We do dark room white noise and sometimes dummy but recently she's not needed that. Swaddled too. But she's a very good napper and sometimes just falls asleep by herself randomly. (Don't hate me, my nights are worse than yours!)

My first I did pushchair a lot but had to keep walking or he'd wake up. Also did dark room etc with him but it was a battle royale after the first nap of the day.

Hate to say it, bit they're all different. Sling is good for getting longer naps though.

Does she seem over tired at groggy when she doesn't nap well? If not then don't panic too much.x

She’s 9 months now but when she was that age it was push round in a buggy (covered up by Snoozeshade and with white noise toy inside) until asleep then park up. Then gradually moved to push back and forth in the kitchen a few times, and now is just pop in buggy, turn on white noise toy and cover up and she rolls around for a bit and nods off.

@Eltay ahh brilliant. We didn’t get a sleepyhead as a midwife scared us off from it 😓 but loads say it helps.

How are you getting on today with it? X

@BirchfosterUK i was always against the sleepyhead until i had my baby and found she was a thrasher!
Always throwing her arms and legs about as a newborn and the sleepyhead helped her as her arms would hit the cushion instead of keep falling to the mattress which made her feel like she was falling and woke her up!
Ive been out and about today so shes had a pram nap but im now home and put her in sleepyhead in dark room and white noise and she went to sleep within 10 minutes! She was tired and dosey when i put her up there. Id tried to rock her to sleep in my arms and she was having none of it.
Never thought this would work!

Bouncy chair. Bounce RELENTLESSLY with foot. Gradually taper off once asleep. Sneak away as necessary (or quietly wilt on sofa).

@Eltay what size did you get? I’m trying a make-shift sleepy head today (rolled up large cellular blanket) so fingers crossed!