How to nap longer?

My 4 mth old baby girl just wont sleep longer that 30 mins in the daytime, how can i get her to sleep longer.

She sleeps in the night from 9pm to 2am then 2.30am to 6/7am then 30mins -1hr later another 1 hr. Then another 1hr. Then 3 x 30 mins naps at about 1pm, 4pm and 6pm helppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp

Do you put her down in her cot through the day and in the dark? If not this might help

Not really, she always sleeps in my arms, then I put her down in the cot in the lounge, have also tried her in the bedroom and in the dark, but never sleeps more than 30 mins.

Kirsty,

 have you got any advice anywhere else yet? my baby boy who is 14 weeks old sounds almost exactly the same! he sleeps well during the nigh in a similar pattern to your baby, but daytime is a nightmare. 20min max!

 Ange

ange, no not yet but when i take her to bed with me in the day she does sleep longer, let me know if things change and ill keep you updated too.

kirsty, falling asleep in your arms  then wakeing cause she is no longer in them,maybe thats why ,my daughter is the same she is not so bad but she is now 1 and i (recently ) had to do the leave and cry (modified to pats on the back and singing) (which worked) to have some time as it was getting silly, rock her to sleep put her down she wakes im not there she cries = one grumpy baby  and  tired me ,for her daytime kips i put her in her pram (.some babes mine inculded like to have a moan before suddenly falling asleep)hope this makes sense am tired and should b in me bed!!

Don't know if you will read this as it is a while since you first posted your "cry for help".  Hopefully you have got it all sorted out now.  My 3 year old was the same when he was born and now my 16 week old is playing the same game.  I used to get him to sleep in my arms and then put him down.  After half an hour he was wide awake and happy and then an hour later grizzly and tired again so I would have to go through the same routine to get him to sleep again.  I now put him down in his pushchair and push him back and forth to get him to drop off.  At the moment he is still waking up after half an hour but I simply pop his dummy back in, snuggle him back under his blanket and rock his pushchair again.  He then drops off again.  He does still wake up from time to time but drops off again quite easily.  I try not to make eye contact with him as he starts to laugh and wants to play then.  Although this is not an ideal solution, he does now sleep the best part of two hours and I can manage to get things done even if it means pushing the pushchair around the house and doing everything with my free hand!  Hope this helps.

Thanks Kerry i shall give that a go, lately but not often she will sleep for 2 hrs, so Im kind of getting there bit by bit, I will give your idea a go.

I was letting Skye fall asleep in my arms but decided she had to learn to put herself to when she was about 5 months so i was just wrapping her up and putting her in her cot im our room and she would eventually nod off to sleep. 1 month later and she knows her nap routine and goes to sleep no bother and will sleep for roughly an hour and a half

clairexxx

Lili just woke after 1/2 hr so i pushed her around and now shes gone back to sleep, weigh heigh.................