How to transition 4 month old from pram to crib for naps

[CherrySponge21]

Currently my 4 month old DD sleeps well in her next2me crib at night but I have got into a routine of putting her in the bassinet of her pram for daytime sleeps. She usually needs a little push around in this, the extractor fan on and a snoozeshade and sleeping bag to get to sleep but she has got much quicker. I now want to transition to her crib but tried it the other day following a popular sleep programme and it was awful. Is there a more gradual way to do this? I can't work out what is best as she seems to like the little bit of motion etc. Any thoughts greatly appreciated or people's own experiences..

Just bumping this for you OP, as someone who completely failed to do this (my kids napped in the buggy for as long as they had naps!)

@CherrySponge21 how do you get her to sleep at night? Once I’d gotten DS into a night routine, I just rolled out a slimmed down version for naps.
Mine involved a dummy which I’m now trying to transition away from as he’s very handsy and keeps waking himself up by taking the dummy out...so I certainly don’t have all the answers but I have been there recently!

Why do you need to? If it ain’t broke and all that...

@ELW85 At night I feed her to sleep. Sometimes she is fully asleep but other times she's slightly awake when out down at night but settles herself. I don't feed before naps though.

@PotteringAlong I suppose I want to move her upstairs so I can get on with things in the house and eventually I think she'll be too big for the bassinet. If she's in my bedroom or eventually hers I think the quality of her sleep might also be better. But maybe you're right and I shouldn't worry about the location so much?!

@CherrySponge21 - does she take a dummy? You could replicate the suck to sleep if bedtime with that for naps?

@ELW85 we only tried the dummy once and it didn't go well so it might be tricky to introduce but thank you for the suggestion...I really appreciate it!

My 2 year old still naps in his pram. He sleeps fine! We have a snooze shade and it fully reclines so he’s flat. We usually put the pram in the garden and he seems to like it.

Personally I find it much easier that he naps in the pram because it means we can have days out and he’ll just nod off in the middle. I have friends whose babies only nap in cots and it breaks up every day and means it can be really hard to schedule things. I’ve never met a baby equally happy to nap in cot or pram - they all seem to prefer one or other - but that would be the ideal!

@CherrySponge21 I’ll be honest, my 3 only ever napped on me or in the pram / pushchair. I just wheeled them into a different room if I wanted to do something without them there, and it also meant I could go out if they were asleep because I just pushed them outside and we cracked on!

I did try with DS1 to get him to sleep in a cot for naps and then realised I was doing it because I felt I ought to and not because it actually made any difference.

@CherrySponge21 - it’s tough isn’t it! Up until recently DS only napped on me and I freaked out that he wouldn’t be able to go to nursery and sleep etc even though we’re a while off yet.
He had first pram nap the other day (he doesn’t usually go to sleep in it) so hopefully that’ll continue as I get terrified that we can’t go for long days out as he’ll have an overtired meltdown and not sleep!
Seems not to be the case though (fingers crossed!) if it’s not an issue for you then there’s no point in changing it. It became an issue for me more because I’m desperate not to sleep train and just to give him a chance to gently fall asleep on his own from a young age; again more to do with my anxiety as opposed to not loving nap cuddles!