Looking for some advice please in relation to my five month old baby girl. She has always napped on me from birth as she wouldn't settle anywhere else. As she was young, my partner and I shared holding her. At night she began to sleep in her pram carrycot after a month. I knew this to be typical fourth trimester behaviour and only wished I'd started using a sling from the start - you live and learn!
Now, at five months, my daughter still naps on me. She has about 4/5 naps each day as her awake time is generally 1.5 hours. She will sometimes nap with her dad in the baby carrier but these naps only last 30 mins and she is tired again quickly. She is not on a schedule as such - I just try to avoid overtiredness and watch her for sleepy cues. I try and do a short nap routine (book, sleeping bag, dark room, white noise) each time. She has a good bedtime routine (bath, pjs, book, bottle, fed/held to sleep). She will generally go to bed between 6.30-7.30. She sleeps until 5.30am (ish). She was starting to sleep through recently - 7/8 hours straight - but this week has been waking multiple times (sometimes 45 mins after going down). Her naps are really variable - can be as short as 30 mins, sometimes 45 mins and sometimes she'll nap for almost 2 hours if I'm there to bridge the gap and breastfeed her again. She generally naps about 3/3.5 hours each day and sleeps at night for 9/10 hours.
I'm back at work next month (from home) and feel a bit anxious about how she'll adapt re sleep with her dad being her primary carer. Does anyone have advice for getting a baby down, or even so she'll sleep with my partner? She sleeps in her pram carrycot at night (swaddled, not yet rolling). She is rapidly outgrowing it so will need to transition to next-to-me. She was ebf for first three months, now she has about 1 or 2 bottles of formula each day. I feed her to sleep most of the time because I genuinely don't know how else to get her to sleep (she has FOMO!). She likes to be cuddled in. She will take a dummy sometimes. I don't want to cio etc but just looking for any gentle methods that may have worked previously.
Thanks in advance.