Am I expecting too much???

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My DD is 10 weeks old. She sleeps well during the night, will self settle to sleep if awake when we put her to bed, gets up once or maybe twice in the night to feed and goes straight back to sleep on her own. My issue is that during the day she will not sleep in her moses basket at all, in fact she will not really sleep other than on me (or DH). Am I expecting too much of her to nap in her moses basket during the day?? Do I need to break the habit of this or is it too early to do this at 10 weeks. (If I need to break the habit how do I do it??) Problem is that I don't really get time to do anything during the day, am I being unrealistic to think I can snatch an hour in the morning and in afternoon to get things done around the house???

IMO the best solution is to stop fighting it - buy a sling and let her nap in it. If you get a good supportive wrap or something, you'll be able to do whatever you like while she sleeps and it's far less stress. Everyone is happy. When she gets a bit older she'll prob nap in the pram.

I had this too with my twins. Good sleepers at night but rubbish in day time. I really felt I needed them to nap at same time as was so exhausted. In the end what cracked it was putting them in pram outside, wrapped up really warm and shuggling them to sleep. Were luck had patio doors out onto safe garden. We started that when they were 6 months and they napped like that for 2 hours every afternoon until they were two.

If I had my time again would do pram thing from your stage but sasamax's idea good too. I used to sometimes be able to get them to sleep in sling and then oh so carefully lie them down, sometimes bending over them sort of tummy to tummy and moving away ultra slowly so they didn't notice!