6 week old sleep regime - advice needed please.

[HappyMama01]

Being a first time mum I've received a lot of advice by my mum on how to raise my baby. Some great advice, some... not so great.

He's been a great baby so far - bottle fed, winded, changed and put down to sleep every four hours give or take. I don't stay dead silent around the house. He can sleep through most noises - tv, washing machine, treadmill, hoover etc

However, she is getting pretty insistent on me putting baby upstairs in his Moses basket for daytime naps. He does still sleep beside me and hubby of a nighttime.

I'm just not entirely comfortable leaving him upstairs for naps yet as I feel he is way too tiny for this?! (I suffer with extreme anxiety and just like having him near, but my mother is saying that he 'needs to learn to be without me around all the time')

What's everyone else's thoughts on this?

It is advised that you keep newborns close for naps, so if you're downstairs then yes, in Moses. Or take her upstairs with you if you go for a lie down. Just point your mum to the Lullaby Trust website if she starts on at you.

Sorry him, not her!

He is too young to be anywhere but next to his mother.

Leaving him in a different room won't make him 'more independent', the opposite.

There's a great book called Why Love Matters, which contains scientific studies into the developing brain and why closeness and responsiveness of the caregivers is good for babies, and makes them more independent eventually.

You could point out it's against SIDS advice, up till 6 months they are supposed to have all sleeps in the same room as you/your partner.

And you don't have to take your mums advice. You can do things your way. It is your baby after all.

She thinks she knows best after she had me. And that was 22 years ago!
I've tried explaining things have changed since then.
Thank you ladies. I'm glad my head is screwed on and he's stayed in the room with me for all sleeps.