So LO will only sleep while being held or on her babybjorn. She is 3.5 weeks and I want to start getting her to sleep on her basinette in our room. Do you think I should start with day naps? Night sleep or everything all at once? On previous occasions I can get her to sleep about 30 mins in a basinette. Also if she has only a short nap do I try and extend it or assume that's all she'll do. I am not trying to sleep train her I just think we'd both sleep better if she wasn't on my chest all night. TIA for any advice.
I would start with naps and be consistant. You may have to lay her down 5x before it works.
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My LO is the same way. She's 2 weeks old. Just the past few days, she has started sleeping in the PnP in our room. She sleeps well for the first 2 to 3 hours of the night, but then wakes up every hour. Sometimes she needs to eat, sometimes she just needs a snuggle before being laid back down.
We had been staying in the recliner and letting her sleep on us all night, but now we just put her back in the PnP after each wake up and feeding. She doesn't fuss when we lay her back down. Hopefully, she will start staying there for longer stretches. For naps during the day, she will now sleep in the rock n play for a short while, but prefers to sleep on her tummy on the floor [with me supervising].
Good luck to you! It definitely makes a big difference to sleep in bed rather than upright with a baby on you all night long.
I kept trying the bassinet and she hated it no matter what. I tried the pnp and she sleeps forever in there. Try starting at nap time and go from there.
Re: Transition to basinette
TTC#1 for 19 months with PCOS and MFI IUI#3 + injectables = BFP!!!! Beta#1-134(13dpiui) Beta #2-392(15dpiui)
#1 born December 2011
TTC#2 - Beta #1 -51@10dpo Beta#2 -1353 @16dpo
#2 born May 2013
TTC # 3 June 2014 BFP 12-1-14
#3 born August 2015
#4!!!!!!! due June 2017
We had been staying in the recliner and letting her sleep on us all night, but now we just put her back in the PnP after each wake up and feeding. She doesn't fuss when we lay her back down. Hopefully, she will start staying there for longer stretches. For naps during the day, she will now sleep in the rock n play for a short while, but prefers to sleep on her tummy on the floor [with me supervising].
Good luck to you! It definitely makes a big difference to sleep in bed rather than upright with a baby on you all night long.