Leaning over into the ‘next to me’ crib to feed - crazy idea?!

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DS is one month old and today for the first time ever, did a 40 min nap in the Snuzpod. I was utterly amazed because he has refused to go down in it (or in the Moses basket etc) since he was born, so we have had to co-sleep.

To see if it’d happen again, DH put him down in the Snuzpod an hour ago. He hasn’t fallen asleep - he’s awake but fighting it - but amazingly he hasn’t cried either. He appears to be tolerating it which is a huge step - Wow!

He’s now showing signs of being hungry. To encourage him to stay in the crib, would I be utterly bonkers to think I could lean over it and breastfeed into it?! Would it be the right angle for him? Or would that be daft?!

Have you tried feeding whilst side lying yet? That can work with a Next to Me, so you lie in the bed parallel with baby and shuffle as close as possible. They lie on their side to feed. It's a bit of a fiddle until you get the hang of it. It might help to bend your top leg and then role you hip so that knee touches the mattress.

I don’t think I could have bf in that position but I definitely used to lean in and over to settle them when I first put them down. Then I’d slowly withdraw and put a hand in their chest then slowly move that once they were in a deep enough sleep.

Mind you I suppose I’d have to get him out anyway to wind him wouldn’t I? 🤨

Try the side lying and he may not need winding. It took me a while to realise that mine didn't and I was losing a lot of precious sleep to winding. Lots of cultures don't bother with winding at all.

Thanks all. I did try it, but it was uncomfortable and didn’t work anyway! He finally got to sleep at 1:30, after a wake window of five hours 🙄

Whoever decided one month olds have a wake window of 60-90 minutes obviously never met my son, because it’s the same every night!

He did nod off, in my arms, at about 00:30, so I tried to transfer him to the crib, hoping he’d be okay with it. He woke instantly and started crying. The soother didn’t help, nothing helped. Only a feed. By which point it was 01:30 and I just decided to admit defeat and co-slept on our bed as usual.

Can you just co-sleep? You are BF? I’m not sure how else you’ll sleep. Also yes side feeding is good and yes winding too needs to be done

Be careful not to press too hard on the base trying to roll away if you do try feeding to sleep then rolling away, I snapped one of the slats the mattress lies on by doing that! It's made of bloody cardboard.