Did anyone have a newborn that would only sleep on them? How did you get them into a cot/ Moses basket?

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My DS is 7 weeks old (3 weeks corrected). Every night I try to put him down in his Moses basket, every night he ends up co-sleeping with me, or on my chest. He just won't settle otherwise.

Will he get better at settling by himself or is there something I should do? I have tried warming the Moses basket, swaddling, white noise, waiting until he is in a deep sleep. Nothing seems to work.

Help!

Have you tried putting a rolled up blanket in a horseshoe shape into the moses basket to make it smaller? I had similar issues with my dd and this was recommended to me and it worked!

My dd slept on me until she was around 10 weeks and she then started to sleep through v soon after that. She had colic I think and was only comfortable fairly upright (I was propped up on pillows) totally not recommended I know but twas the only way

My DS1 slept on my chest until about 8 weeks. I feel for you as it's very tiring to not be able to get them into a moses basket to sleep. We decided that the reason was because he had had a forceps delivery and his head was too badly bruised on one side for him to lie down - it was the same feeding too. could only feed holding him one way. Is it possible that yours might have a sore head from the birth?

Ds3 had reflux and could only sleep when very tightly swaddled and raised at quite a big angle - we got a special cot sheet that held him in place in the basket.

My baby was the same - would only sleep with me. In the end I just went with it instead of wasting my energy stressing about getting her into a cot. It is what my instincts were telling me to do anyway. During the day if putting her down in the moses basket or pram didn't work then I carried her in the sling. It was exhausing but she was happy and that was what mattered to me. She is almost 2 now and goes to bed in her own bed but still comes into my bed in the middle of the night.

We cosleep, makes life a lot easier, especially when they are really wee.

There is nothing wrong with cosleeping safely, it isn't making a rod for your back, or bad parenting.

If co-sleeping is working for you then stick with it. If it's not then I'm sure there will be lots of good suggestions on thread.

hot water bottle to warm the basket before you put him down, (take it out obv before you put him in) and one of your t shirts in the bottom.

might not work but worth a crack.

I had this with both of mine. Nearly everyone I know did. I think babies are born wanting to be near you.

I just co-slept and moved them gradually when they were ready. My DD is 7 months and nearly ready to move to her cot. She slept on me for about 8 weeks before moving to co-sleeping next to me, then a bit further away, then in her moses basket, where she sleeps quite happily by herself now. I didn't have to do anything to 'train' her to self-soothe. She seemed to work that out in her own time.

Just do what works and don't feel bad if that's to let your baby sleep on you for a bit. It's not forever.

My ds wouldn't settle in his basket when we first brought him home from the hospital we too tried lots of different things. We found swaddling helped a bit but then my sister suggested we try a dummy and it was like magic. As soon as he had that he would settle in there no problem.

Hope this helps for you I know how tough it is in the early days have to say this was a big shock to me when I first brought him home. Esp as all the stupid baby books implied that babies would just magically settle themselves in a cot from birth.

Not to imply that you are fat - but you are bound to be a lot comfier than the average Moses basket mattress :) I wish I'd never bothered with one - I don't think my DD slept properly for any length of time in the blasted thing and it wasn't even that portable.
Swaddling really tightly in a stiff blanket - think scratchy old hospital towel sometimes works - the lovely soft organic cotton swaddling cloth that I got was right out apparently . Moved her to a proper cot at 8 weeks and things improved a lot - she did hate being swaddled and she didn't smack her hands off the sides of the larger cot in her sleep.
Co-sleeping - I think everyone does this at some point especially if bfing in the early days, when the feeds are every 5 mins. A friend bought one of those moses baskets that hangs off the side of your bed and swore by it.

We tried all the suggestions above, but it never worked. In the end we just gave up and coslept. After a couple of months I could lie on our bed with dd until she fell asleep and then pop her into a cot for an hour or two in the evening, but she never went through the night in a moses basket or cot. Now dd sleeps on a futon on the floor, either dp or I lie with her until she goes to sleep, then we're free for the evening, and one or both of us go back to sleep there during the night.

DS was like this during the day (though not at night). It got better on its own at about 14 weeks.

I used to spend what felt like forever rocking him to sleep, couldnt co-sleep as dp is a smoker. It does get better.

My lg only wanted to sleep on me in the beginning, and I imagine that (as was suggested in a previous post) her forceps delivery did leave her with a sore head for a while. She certainly had bruising and hated sleeping in any position except on her side. I also agree about the Moses basket mattress, as she started sleeping off of me when we moved her to a travel cot with a proper mattress.

Some brilliant suggestions on this thread - thanks to everyone who took the time to reply. I'm going to try them all and if nothing works I'll cling to the hope that things will settle down by themselves in a few weeks (hopefully!!)

I don't think it helps that DS1 is a brilliant sleeper and went 6.30 - 7am from about 3 months and still does at 16 months. Maybe I need to adjust my expectations as well

We coslept for a while, but as I was on my own there was room to put the moses basket in the bed next to me, a little awkqard but worked as a transition. I would also use my pillow as the mattress, a little softer and smelled like mummy!

I had exactly the same problem with my DS, now 10 weeks old. In the end I drove to Bath with him, exhausted, and bought a bed side cot with a side that rolls down. He will now go down in that and sleep for around 4 hours before waking, which is a massive relief. When he wakes in the night it's co-sleeping or no-sleeping so we're only halfway there, but this still definitely helped a bit!