Juggling a toddler and newborn naps

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At home with DS 22 months and DD 9 weeks, who is finding it hard to get a decent nap in. I’m happy to hold her/wear her in the carrier if needs be, but she struggles to drop off and stay asleep with the rest of the chaos that’s going on. So we end up with a very overtired baby and hours of screaming (her and me 😂) as well as unsettled and disrupted feeds because she’s too tired to take them properly.

Mamas who’ve done it before - any tips?! Before she was born I was all “she’ll just have to fit in with us” but that doesn’t seem to be working!

You’ve said you’ve tried a sling which would be my advice. If you can put her down a walk with toddler and wheel the pram into the house - out the way of the noise.

Oh if only she’d settle well in the pram 😩 DS didn’t either until he was four or five months old

Ugh sympathies, I’ve got a limpet second child too. DD is just turned 2 and DS is 4.5m. I tend to manage to get DS down in the pram for nap 1 so that’s usually a walk - either just a wander or walking DD to nursery (she goes twice a week). Mid morning nap is usually sling while I park DD in front of CBeebies 😫I’ve moved DD’s lunchtime nap to slightly later in the afternoon so I can overlap his 3rd sleep with hers, and then the 4th nap is another sling one. In the process of trying to move to 3 naps and will be eradicating the CBeebies one! Sympathies though OP, it’s bloody hard work and I am limping to 6 months as DH and I are overlapping shared parental leave and we are going to take turns to get him used to the cot! I just need DD not to drop her nap in the next 6 weeks!!

I know what you mean, thank god for DS taking a nice long lunchtime nap!

I don’t mind a limpet child to some extent, I think what I’m looking for are examples of how to sort the older child out while accommodating limpet child, so thank you for giving me a glimpse into your routine!