14 week old serial cat napper?!?

[Thelandmum8a]

Hi all, wondering if anyone can offer some advice for my 14 week old dd.

When I put her down for naps she fusses for a couple of minutes but goes down relatively easy. The only problem is she wakes up after 35 minutes WITHOUT FAIL. She sleeps through the night from 7pm-6:30am, so I know she knows how to self settle! Her wake times seem to be around an hour 15, much longer than that she seems to get fussy, so I always aim to put her down around then. Any later and it’s much harder to get her to sleep!

Is this just age appropriate? When she wakes up from a nap she is relatively chilled, so I leave her in her cot to see if she fancies going back to sleep. Chilled usually turns to fussing, fussing turns to crying and eventually after 15-20 minutes she goes back down... but it’s usually a fidgety sleep where she wakes up and has a little cry then sleeps again on and off like this for another 35 or so minutes. Half the time I’m left wondering whether the only reason she goes back down is because I’ve left her fussing for so long, but saying that she does still seem tired when she wakes up.

I guess I’m wondering if I should just be getting her up after 35 minutes and trying for another nap an hour or so later? Or should I be leaving her in her cot (crib60?) to hopefully go down again?!

Any help or experiences would be so greatly appreciated!

@notetaker @Thelandmum8a I’m not out the woods completely, but we do have better days now. I watch her awake windows, even if she doesn’t seem tired, she will usually go to sleep a lot easier than if I left her for an extra 10/20mins. I used to sit on my exercise ball and bounce, then try her down, sometimes this failed, but kept my hand on her chest.
I’m a single mum, working practically full time so letting her sleep on me wasn’t an option really. So i started doing naps in the cot, red light stimulates the sleep hormones so I put this on, white noise, and she will settle now quite quickly. So I don’t spend most of my day battling / rocking an overtired baby, and can get stuff done. Then when she wakes leave her for 20 minutes and sometimes she will resettle, it may mean I have to go back in and put the dummy in. A lot of the naps are still short, but we just then work to 4 naps on them days and early bed. Some days we can have some longer naps (today she did 2.5hrs at lunchtime), and then reduce to 3. Then one nap a day in the pram on a walk. It’s just finding what works, and then expecting it to change as soon as it works 😂 I just keep thinking it won’t be like this forever.