help.....reluctant napper

[Lovelove]

10 month old never been a good sleeper, but is now finally sleeping through (most nights not all!) But he has always been BF'd to sleep, and now we have dropped a BF in the day in preparation for nursery in 6 weeks, and will soon drop the last remaining BF, I need tips on getting him to nap without a feed. Have tried patting him in cot, rocking him, etc, he gets very distressed and it usually takes at least an hour to get him off that way, however tired he is. I don't want to do controlled crying though....any ideas?

Leave it to nursery - they'll have to let him settle on his own there and he'll be so much more tired being there where life is so amazing he'll soon develop his own techniques.

Hmmm...thanks that's interesting...and good to know. The thing is tho, I'm struggling now, as he is so reliant on being BF'd to sleep. (Don't want to go cold turkey on him re BF'ing and dump him in nursery at the same time, which is why I'm cutting down on the day feeds now) He doesn't seem to be able to switch off when he's tired, and its such a titanic struggle to get him to nap and he's a wreck by the end of the day if he doesn't. I have loads of smug mates with babies who just put them in their cots when they start to rub their eyes and they drift off peacefully. DS would go bonkers if I did that.

no answers LL, just some empathy - my 8 month is a crap napper and is also quite reliant on bfing. As I co sleep with her she is also reliant on readily available boob when she awakens at night at all, which all makes for rubbish naps.

Im trying the "No cry sleep solution" techniques at the moment - watching for signs of tiredness and then trying to rock/feed her to sleep. She usually wakens after 15mins (light sleep) adn Im TRYING to jump in and rock her back to sleep so that she breaks the bad habit.

Not v helpful, but I know how you feel.

Thanks. Its tough isn't it. I guess we have very switched on alert babies which isn't such a bad thing most of the time! Maybe I'm slowing down on the BFing too soon for his liking, but I don't see what else I can do with nursery on the horizon.