Baby has decided she HATES falling asleep in the stroller/in a carrier. Is this a phase ?
So up untill a few weeks ago baby would fall asleep in the carrier or the stroller and sleep a super long nap. Like 40-60 minutes. Then all of a sudden she decided to go on a strike from going outside at all. Not even carrying her outside without a carrier or stroller helped. As soon as we would go out of the house she would start scream crying. This was at 8 weeks and I read some babies get overwhelmed with the outside because all their senses come in. So I tried every day but accepted she didn’t like it and didn’t push. Some of my friends said you just have to push through and let them cry for 10-15 minutes and then they’ll settle. I’m not very comfortable with that but the week after her strike she was letting us go around the block so I thought I’ll try and push it one day. But unlike my friends babies who cry a little and then settle, my LO decided to scream at the top of her lungs. I wasn’t even intentionally doing this I just went to far from home. So I kept it short. Now she will tolerate about twenty minutes outside. Sometimes a bit more sometimes less. What I’ve realized is she likes being outside untill she feels sleepy and then wants out and kind of freaks out. And in the carrier she feels sleepy usually sooner also she get upset sooner. Now for a little bit I was able to help her fall asleep outside the stroller and put her back in (gave up on the carrier for a bit) but recently at 13 weeks she fights sleeping SO hard outside. She really wants to go home to sleep. And with the weather being gorgeous I really don’t want to be spending the majority of the day inside. Like I’d like to be out for at least an hour not 20 minutes. Lately she will let me take her out of the stroller and she will tolerate walking around like that for a while to stretch my walk but she’s too heavy to do this for long. Also as soon as she sees the block of our house she stops screaming/crying cause she knows we are home. 🙃
Is this a phase? We’ve taken her to ikea and to the aquarium. Both places she fought sleep and skipped a nap because she was so entranced by everything she saw and then around the 3 hour mark started fussing for a couple minutes but with a little gentle rocking and humming passed out. In those spots she didn’t act the way she does around the neighborhood. Is there anything I can do to convince her to like the stroller/carrier more? I’ve tried multiple carriers and both bassinet and car seat for the stroller. No difference.
I genuinely think it’s because she doesn’t want to fall asleep in a carrier or a stroller but I have no idea how to avoid this since she gets sleepy in both!!