5 week old won’t nap unless on me during the day

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I’m sure it’s really normal and I’m not trying to force her to nap in her moses basket / cot / pram but it would be so nice if she could nap in any of these, as then I can shower without her screaming, or take her out in the pram (I can only take her calmly if she falls to sleep and is put in the pram when fast asleep… she won’t fall asleep herself in the pram).

When I get her to sleep in my arms, wait til she is fast asleep and then put her into the cot / Moses basket, she wakes up after 10-15 mins so it’s not really a full nap.

I do put her in a baby carrier so I can get on with things, but I don’t want her to not get used to napping in the other places.

Shes great at night and can fall back to sleep in her cot after feeding fairly easily most of the time. It’s just the daytime she doesn’t.

If it’s just a case of wait it out (aware she’s only 5 weeks!) then I’m happy to do so, just don’t want to miss if I should / could be doing something to help her!

Hey, didn't want to read and run. It's a definite wait it out. They are still so tiny, the crave the snuggles and being close to you. They haven't realised yet that they are a separate entity. No shame but loads of annoyance with contact napping. Read up on the 4th trimester

I say this as I have baby sleeping across my tummy now.

Congratulations on your new baby!

Sounds like you’re doing everything right and in the same boat as millions of new mothers that they’d just love a half an hour to do stuff (which doesn’t mean to say you don’t embrace most of the cuddles of course). Keep trying to put her down, these things are usually gradual as oppose to a sudden change. Napping on you is normal, you’re not setting yourself up for any bad habits.

I'm tempted to say enjoy it, cos it really won't last. My Ds Was like that and I tried to fix. Congratulations as well.

Thank you! I’ll keep trying but not put any pressure on it in that case and enjoy contact naps, I’ll probably feel sad when she does nap on her own without needing me 😂.

It will end but she is so tiny she just wants to be with you. I had the clingiest of boys and he would only nap with me up until recently and he is 9 months. I would put him down and he would have 20 minutes but with me 2 hours. When he was 5 weeks old though he would not be put down at all. I found is suffocating to begin with but when I realised it wasn’t going change for a long time I just started to enjoy it rather than stress about it.