6 month old only naps on my lap after feeding to sleep - help please!

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His night-time sleep is a bit better than it was, 2-4 waking-ups now, though I do have to feed him to sleep, but the day-time is ridiculous! Especially now I have to get him food and clean the kitchen up now he's weaning, there aren't enough hours in the day to sit here MNing while he sleeps!
I used to pop him into his chair, but he never slept for long, and these days, if I even try and lift him up he wakes up.
He does sleep in his pushchair, but that's no help when it's raining, and it won't help me get the kitchen clean.
What can I do?

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Have you tried laying with him? sometimes my daughter (now 8months) sleeps on blackets on th floor in the lounge whilst im in there. she sleeps fine but on the odd occasion where she wants to be held i lay with her til she falls asleep then get up and get tidying. I think if you did this then hed prob get used to you being there but not holding him and then you can gradually start moving further away until he goes down on his own??

That's an idea. It's breaking the suck/sleep association that's the main problem.

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Bump.

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Does he have a dummy? DS did at this age and went from feeding to sleep to napping in his bouncy chair (would take a combination of dummy, jiggling and shushing but usually worked!).

ALternatively can you put him in the pushchair and rock him to sleep in that?

Did you have to swap the dummy for nipple while he dozed off, or go straight to the dummy?

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I would stick him in the bouncer and when he started to look sleepy, stick the dummy in and get jiggling.

For quite a while he would still take some naps on me (having fallen asleep feeding) but gradually he started having more naps in the bouncer and then one day I was able to get him napping in the cot, which was great. It did take quite a lot of effort and persistence but worth it in the end.

How I'm going to manage it next year when I've got a newborn and a toddler, is another matter

I've got dummies, but have never really gotten him to have one. I guess I'm just going to have to bite the bullet and get on with it. My Mum assures me I stopped sleeping in the day at all by 9 months old, but he might still need a nap for a long time, so I've got to sort it.
Thank you!

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