Nap help!

[Mummalove1]

Hi everyone
Hoping for some advice please

I'm a first time mum and my beautiful daughter is 6 months old, she's a great sleeper at night, gets around 11-12 hours, waking for one feed during the night (EBF), however she really struggles with her daytime naps!
This past week she has moved into her own room, again no problems at night but the naps are getting worse, she starts to get tired around 2/2.5 hours after waking, I make sure she's clean and well fed, trying my best to ensure she isn't falling asleep whilst nursing (if she starts to drift off I take her off and burp to wake her up), I put her down drowsy but awake, and stay with her until she falls asleep (hand on chest/stroking and shushing if she gets cranky) but as soon as I leave the room she's awake and screaming! If she falls asleep and I can get away it's for 45 minutes tops and I can tell she's still sleepy afterwards (for info this is the same if I put her in her Moses basket, not just a new development in her new room).
This afternoon she wouldn't fall asleep at all, after two hours of trying I gave up and took her back downstairs where she fell asleep on me almost immediately and stayed asleep for over two hours with me holding her.
Since she was born she has always been a contact napper and struggled sleeping on her own (but again only during the day!), as much as I love the cuddles, for obvious reasons this isn't ideal 3 times a day, I have tried wearing her but I really want to try and crack her being able to sleep on her own to allow me to crack on with the ever growing list of jobs.

I know she is more that capable of sleeping long stretches on her own as she does this every night, but I'm just so confused as to why she is struggling so much with her naps, because it can take so long for her to actually fall asleep im not able to set a solid routine, her bed time and wake time are always the same but naps all over the place.

If anyone has had a similar situation please let me know what I can to help her sleep a little more independently during her daytime naps

Thank you x

Naps and night time sleep use different parts of babies brains until they’re about 10 months, which is how they can nap or sleep so well but not always the other!

Have you got a pram? We always used to put that in the hallway, rock them to sleep then leave them and re rock at the 45 mins if needed

Otherwise, pick up put down is good - do a mini routine like you would at night (blinds, white noise etc), then rock her until she’s sleep, put down, when she cries pick her up, rock, pop down repeat until she’s at the really drowsy point of just falling asleep in the cot

Sounds like - at six months she may be in the beginning stages of understanding separation. She wants/needs you.

i found with my brood (constantly) that fresh air gave the best results for a nap. I would take them out, even for a short while, feed when back the sleep. Even in the rain!

god that sounds smug and preachy which I do not mean it to be.