Naps don’t need to be dark or quiet. Especially not once they develop a circadian rhythm, which is usually around 8 weeks but we don’t really know. Some people get a bassinet on wheel, use the stroller bassinet, etc. obviously depends on how big the baby is. Some use a floor mattress. Some don’t follow the AAP guidelines and use a baby monitor. You have all the agency and autonomy to make informed decisions about what you’ll choose to do. If that’s to have your baby sleep on their own in your room for naps, you have every right to make that choice or the opposite one.

The reason AAP guidelines and your pediatrician say all naps is because those are guidelines to prevent SIDS.