Nap nightmare

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Hi mummies! I’ve always had trouble with my little girls sleep from the get go, we have always had to force her to sleep.
Naps are the worst, I spend my days watching for her sleep cues and I still can’t manage to get her at the right time. She just doesn’t want to go to sleep and then it results in her furiously rubbing her eyes, knocking her dummy out and then eventually crying because she is so overtired. A lot of the time recently I’m just picking her up and rocking her because I can’t take it anymore. When she does sleep it’s not more than 36 mins, I can never get anything done.
I’ve read that her awake window should be 75 mins, to 2 hours somewhere else (she’s 15 weeks) and it’s just confusing.
I know no one can really help but just wanted to rant and see if anyone else has trouble settling their little ones down for sleep. I try and always put her in her Moses basket

I feel your pain, I had a terrible napper! To be honest, I wouldn't expect a 15 week old to settle themself to sleep for naps. I think it's perfectly normal to rock then to sleep, feed to sleep etc when they are that little. At that age I used to have a white noise machine and rock my DS to sleep in his pram. He was also the king of 30min naps. Only thing I can do is reassure you they grow out of it and there's nothing you really need to do except go with the flow! The best thing I read is that them getting the sleep is the most important thing, not how they get there. So noticing a tired sign, and immediately getting them to sleep in whatever way. This gets them used to sleeping and keeps overtiredness at bay. Then over time and they will need less and less input from you. My son is now 10months and self settles in his cots (without a dummy - we got rid at 6 months) and has 2 x 1.5 hour naps. All we did was go with him, when he got to around 5 months we started putting him in the cot (but still patting and shushing to sleep) and over time he needed it less and less!

My DS2 was the king of 20 minute naps for months. Just enough time to grab a sandwich or cup of tea but not much else. Still it was a good excuse not to do any housework! Similar to pp, he got better as he got older and did 1.5-2 hour naps from 6 months to 2 years old. Will she stay asleep longer if you walk round with her in a sling or wrap?

Its normal that baby will want both movement and (dummy) sucking in order to get to sleep.

To encourage independant sleep you would be better moving the surface rather than the baby, iyswim. So put baby in a bouncer (bouncing with your foot) or pram (pushing back and forth) is an easier habit to break than rocking to sleep in your arms.

Oh, and with 36 min naps I'd have an awake time window of more like 60-90 minutes. You want awake time around double length, give or take 15 mins.