Nap Nightmare

kmornelas29

My LO is great at sleeping in her crib at night, but refuses to during the day. The only way she will sleep is on me. I wish she took her naps on her own so I can get some things done, but she just isn't having it!

I have tried making it darker, swaddling, putting background noise, nursing n rocking, but nothing helps! She lays in there a total of 5 min and wakes up, and I can tell she is exhausted. Then after so many attempts I just let her lay on me n nap for 2 to 3 hours. I end up getting to overwhelmed attempting and she gets so flustered crying.

To top it off, if she doesn't get good naps, then she doesn't sleep well at night. I don't want my attempt at getting her to nap in her crib...to mess up night sleep.

I know I shouldn't of held her so much while she slept from the time we brought her home til now, but I know I can't hold her while she naps for the rest if her life, so I want to help her. Not to mention, my dogs always bark n end up waking her in her crib.

I feel hopeless. Anyone else have this issue? How did you solve it?

Annelea

Our little guy is not a napper however by the end of he day  he is miserable he is so tired. he does well at night and 3 weeks  ago he started taking 2-3 hour naps and they  have slowly gotten shorter and shorter,  most of the time im lucky to get 15 minutes. even when i hold him he only sleeps 30-45 minutes. i have tried a radio in his room, a shirt i have worn  placed in his crib, a warm towel out of the dryer, curtains closed and open, tried putting him on our bed and the couch, he hates his carrier and swing. take him for a car ride and he wakes up as soon as we take him out of the car.i have no idea what to do. DH works from 4am till 7pm  when his jobs are local and he  is out of town a lot so im basically on my own right now DH just started his set of 15 days working, which means no days off for 15 days!  i am out of ideas and patience. we have no family close and the friends we have i hate to ask them to come after they have worked all day and hand them  a screaming baby. he also hates to go anywhere he has screamed in every store i have taken him in for the past 6 weeks. i went while DH was home and stocked up on 15 days worth of groceries so i don't have to take LO out. i  just keep praying that this is a stage and hope every morning that today will be the day baby naps well.