4 months help! Prioritise naps or stopping sleep associations

[Keha]

My LO is just gone 4 months. Has never slept well on her own so cosleeping and naps are also cosleeping or in pushchair or sling. She is breast fed to sleep and in the night often wakes just to latch on before falling straight back to sleep. We've tried patting/rocking/putting down awake but it just ends up with escalating crying. Dad trying to get her to sleep is not really working at the moment, it's boob or nothing. We had a bit of routine about bed time and naps but this has gone to pot and it's hard to get her to sleep at all and she wakes really easily, Swaddling helped for a bit but she's started rolling and I've never got her to take a dummy.

My question... The only way I can get her to stay asleep for more than 20 mins is to feed to sleep and cosleep, sometimes with my boob literally in her mouth. This seems to just be reinforcing sleep associations and I've read I should be trying to wean her off this. But if I don't do it like that she only has 20 min naps, which are all over the place. I've also read she needs decent naps to be able to sleep at night and just to be a happy baby.

So what is my priority atm... Naps or sleep associations??

Thank you from a tired mum!

Naps! My opinion but your perfect timing for sleep regressions and mental leaps, do what you have to and work on sleep association s later when she's a few months older xx

Naps!!

We've just come through it and omg it was so so hard but yeah I always prioritise naps... they need all the help they can get I guess, regression is just as hard on them.

You'll get through it!

Naps. Don't worry about associations.

In fact, just don't read anything about "should be doing this" and "shouldn't be doing that's".

Do what you feel is most natural :)

Naps 100%

At this stage DD once had a day where she didn't nap at ALL. It got to the point she'd been awake 7am-9pm. It was horrendous for both of us and I felt terrible for her as she ended up beside herself. After that I made naps my absolute priority and ended up with her napping reliably 2-3 times a day and a much happier baby for it.

If baby gets overtired you won’t stand a chance of changing the sleep associations so you need to get to a really good place with sleep first.

Naps! If LO is overtired, they will find it super hard to sleep or soothe at all, so get them to sleep by any means necessary until they’re well rested then work on it.

That's an overwhelming consensus, thank you all!