Catnapping question

I've been wondering this for a while. But my DD only sleeps during the day for 30mins at a time. My question is should I be trying to resettle her every time?
She's been sleeping like this for around 2 months now and sleeps right through the night. She wakes after a 30min nap rubbing her face and yawning and is grumpy, so obviously still tired. I tried for weeks resettling her, but in the end gave up because as soon as I go in there and say 'time for a sleep' she just thinks it's game time! Then of course she's wide awake.

I should mention that I've spent these 2 months trying everything in the book, from white noise to taking her in the pram. She just doesn't want to sleep more than that 30mins. It results in an extremely tired and exhausted baby by bedtime.

This whole time I've been getting her up when she gets really grizzly ( I usually leave her to see if she'll go back to sleep), and then she'll often have another nap just before her next feed (fed 4 hourly). But lately she hasn't been taking that second nap, so have ended up doing an earlier feed and she'll go down after that.

Should I keep trying to resettle her even though she's wide awake and ready for play (but also rubbing her face because she's still tired)? Or do you think she'll settle into longer sleeps eventually? I've kind of just been going with the flow, but now I'm worried that she'll get too used to catnapping and continue to do it and be a grumpy baby!

Keen to hear similar stories and maybe give me some hope

What about wrapping? Are you still wrapping? I sometimes find even now that Amy will settle back down for a longer sleep (or stay asleep lots longer if I wrap here!) I do it when she is really tired, and hard to settle in the first place.

She's generally not hungry until the four hours is up, but might be worth a try with the bottle Chelle.

She's never been wrapped and just kicks it off if I try. SHe's always liked her arms above her head. She's tucked in quite tight for her day sleeps and has a safe t sleep wrap which is kind of like wrapping anyway.

Elfsmum, she is grumpy when she wakes, but once she's up playing she's ok for a while. But she gradually gets worse as the day goes on. By bedtime she's a mess and obviously overtired. SHe can't get past 6pm! Hence pushing her bedtime back (which is what I'm wanting to do), is out of the question. I just feel that if she had a 2 hour sleep in the afternoon she would feel sooooo much better. The catnapping doesn't really bother me, more for her sake. I've just been wondering if she's getting too used to the catnapping and will never sleep longer than 30mins during the day.

Could you try getting her up after a cat nap and if she's still grumpy pop her back into bed after 10 - 20 minutes of awake time? I do this sometimes, works well and I get another sleep cycle out of her.

Hey Jax I was having this issue with Esme up until about 3 weeks ago. She is now happily sleeping for longer for almost all her naps.

I started wrapping her again (she hadn't been wrapped for at least a month) but backwards so she can still get at her hands.

I don't get her up unless she is starting to cry after a nap. Sometimes she'll chat away to herself for 20minutes then fall back asleep

I do what Febgirl suggested if she wakes grumpy, she'll cry when I put her back to bed but 9/10 shes asleep within 15 minutes. I'll also sometimes get her back to sleep in our moby

If all else failed we went for walks around 5 which gave her relaxing time and I could often stretch her bedtime out by 15 minutes or so

As she gets more active you might find she sleeps longer. Esme is rolling all over the place which I think is helping with her sleeps too.