Transition from cosleeping to moses basket - advice please?

[Snarfle]

My ds is almost 7 weeks old as we have always coslept. I posted before about him always needing to be picked up and had some useful suggestions. A lot of these we about swaddling but i am still unsure about doing this. I keep putting him in his basket and he can sleep in it but only for short periods of time and then we wakes up and needs to be picked up to stop him cyring. It also takes at least 20 minutes to actually get him to sleep in the first place ( if we can manage this at all) and then we only get about 15 minutes sleep from him in his basket.

Also, sometimes he seems to really fight sleep. I have read that this could mean I am overstimulating him. I do play with him after each feed and then watch for his sleeping cues(yawns) and then make sure he sleeps (by cuddling and rocking). We don't have a set daytime routine and I am out of the house a lot so this would not be practical. I do however, always follow the eat, play, sleep routine (except at bed time and the middle of the night feed when it is just eat, sleep).

A lot of these posts say they 'put their dc to bed at 7pm'. By 'put to bed' do you put them in a different room and then use a monitor? At the minute, as he won't sleep away from us, he goes to bed when we do at about 10pm (just after his feed). We try him in his basket but he always ends up in our bed as we are both so tires that we don't have the energy to spend an hour trying to get him to sleep in his basket for what might only be half an hour sleepfor him. I am interested how other people get their dc to go to sleep and how long this takes?

Thanks in advance.

Not sure how much help this is but we've found we can get DS in moses basket after night wakings now (after 3 months of just cosleeping) but not the start of the night, so it might be worth trying after night wakings first, maybe give it a go for one night waking per night so it's not too exhausting? We wake our DS for a late evening bottle and put him in the moses basket after that. He needs ssshing and a hand holding his arms down while he gets to sleep. Still haven't cracked bedtime though!

Have you tried things like putting the basket sheet down your top for a bit before you put him down, (so it smells familiar), or warming the moses for a bit with hot water bottle (obv take out before he goes in)?

My DS was the same as yours until about 9 weeks when he decided he did actually like sleeping in his basket.

Thanks PaigeTurner - I will try the blanket / sheet suggestion. Hopw mine is like yours and decides he likes it.

Zayla - it's good to know you managed to make the transition after 3 months. When you say you have to shh etc first - how long do you usually have to do this for?

Thanks

I used to lie on the moses basket mattress/sheet while bf'ing him for last feed, and in the night, so it had my smell and was nice and warm. It helped a little, but afraid to say he was like yours and never liked his moses basket. He settled more in his cot so we got rid of the basket quite quickly (although he preferred me to the cot too, and spent much of the first months on me with me sleeping upright!)

It became clear pretty quickly with the sshing whether it was helping or not - within 30 seconds or so I would say - if it was helping i.e. the cries were dying down gradually rather than escalating, then I would carry on with it until he was asleep which would take a little while.