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Hold her?!?! I just do what it takes
I feel like they start to lengthen around 12 weeks or can go into the cat nap stage but sounds like you arw already there

Tight swaddle, rock n play, white noise?

I have to hold my LO(5.5 weeks) to get a long nap.

Most of my LO's naps were in the swing at that age.

I was never able to put my LO down for even 10-20 min at that age. He napped in his bassinet for a very short time as a newborn but after a few weeks, he completely refused. So I held him for all of his naps for many weeks. We still implemented a solid routine from the beginning but it didn't really click for a long time. I want to say he didn't nap in his crib until after we night trained him at 5 months. Then after that he was ok in his crib for naps too.

At that age, the swing was our savior!

I would prioritize getting your baby to take longer naps however you can do it and then work on putting them down. I would want them to be able to take a longer nap (2 sleep cycles or like 90 minutes) and then once I knew they were getting enough overall daytime sleep, I would work on putting them down in a crib.

At 8 weeks DS2 knew how to take 2 hour naps, so I did let him fuss 10 minutes at the start of each nap and would go in and do checks/pat/rock and then put him back down as soon as he was calm again. I didn't leave the dark sleep space, I kept him in there so he knew it was sleep time, and just kept putting him back down.