6 month old naps - disaster zone

[Crazyone84]

My 6 month old is brilliant at night time sleeping. We have never really put much effort into this, she naturally started sleeping through and settles herself great if she wakes and wiggles through the night. She will sleep 7.30pm till 6.30am.
However daytime naps are disastrous! She has always been a cat napper and will sleep for 20-30 mins then awake. She sleeps great in the car or pushchair but again only short ones. I would like to try and get her napping in her cot for atleast one of her naps and for longer so I can get on and do things. I find I either have to be out walking or holding her to nap which really restricted on my chores, downtime or just general being hands free to do bits. How do I start and work up to a longer day nap in her cot?
Also she will be going to a childminder when I return to work in 2 months time so guess she would need to be in some form of longer naps for them?

Short naps are not unusual, so don't worry.

Keep trying to lengthen them and baby will get it eventually.spend a week or two patting baby through the naps. This should help lengthen them.

Totally agree, she might just be a short napper - some are. It sounds like you've got a good thing going on at night with little stress on everyone's part to achieve it which is a great thing. I would leave well alone, it might be frustrating but a good night's sleep is a joy and if you start trying to change her day sleep it might effect her night sleep. She'll change it by herself in time if she needs to.

Mine was exactly like this too - but she just suddenly started to extend naps on her own around 7 to 8 months I would say.
She’s now 9 months and can easily do an hour per nap, but it’s normally more like 2 hours for one of them, sometimes even 3. If you’d told me that a few months back, I wouldn’t have believed you.

Hope things get better, it might just happen on its own.