Where does/did your newborn sleep?

[clairerow7]

Our little girl is 3 weeks old and won't sleep in her Moses. Where did/does your baby sleep? Did one thing not work but something else did?
Co-sleeping is not an option for us!
We have tried, hot water bottles, something that smells of us, swaddling, sleeping bag... the list goes on!
We know and understand the 4th trimester but for her safety we really want her in a separate bed to ours so all tips are gratefully received.

Entirely unhelpful but dd slept on me for the first 6 weeks. I don’t think I slept more than 10 minute catnaps at a time! And then I moved her into a cosleeping crib which she settled into better when she was older.

Then we co-slept in my bed till she was one and I’ve just transferred her to her own room in a cot.

I don’t think there’s any quick fixes when they’re so little, its trial and error and sharing who’s on baby-duty and who is sleeping. It does get easier though!

Do you have a bedside sleeper? We’ve always coslept but I get it, I used to fret too until sleep deprivation got so bad I gave up and followed all the safety guidelines.

Bedside crib in a SleepyHead. Just in the Moses basket never worked. Hot water bottles helped me place her in after a feed without waking her but I think the SleepyHead had the biggest effect.

The only thing that worked for us was a sleepyhead!

Next2Me bedside crib. DD was literally next to me, we were face to face so she could see me, but in a safe way.

Absolutely nothing worked for us, even Sleepyhead, until she was 4 months old. Sometimes tiny babies just need the comfort. We ended up co-sleeping (and I ended up loving it) as I was BFing every hour and just too knackered to keep trying to place her down.

She's 7months now and absolutely no issues transitioning her to cot. She's an extremely happy baby and not clingy at all. Co-sleeping is a very safe option done following all the safe sleeping guidelines.

In a 2nd hand detachable pram top, on top of a plastic storage box, next to our bed in a loft room with no carpets or running hot water (....we were in the middle of a building project)....Have you already got a proper cot you could stick next to your bed, that way you can be close but safe? Have you done the usual stick a muslin in your cleavage for a short while and then pop it next to them to create a comforting/familiar smell? Really hope you get some sleep soon!

Thank you!!
We're torn between buying a cot bed and using the sleepy head inside OR a next to me.
I guess we just won't know until we try

Ds2 sleeps beside me or in the crook of my arm ar night, in his buggy during the day. As with most babies/humans he prefers to be slightly upright or cosied in so Moses basket was used about 3 times, cradle which I gave myself hours of grief getting ds1 to stay in has not been used at all in 4 months with ds2.

Our DD would only sleep on us so we did 'shifts' for the first 3 weeks til DH went back to work.

We then bought a Sleepyhead and put it in a Next 2 Me crib, took a while but she got more settled as time went on. Kept her in this til 7 months.

We've got a bedside crib (Tutti Bambini cozee) -DS is 10 weeks and it's going really well so far. To get him used to it we did all naps in there for a few days until it clicked. We have him in sleeping bags (Gro-snug) which seem to help him settle better than blankets. If he wakes it is so easy to feed/comfort him. We have been very determined not to bed share as it's not a good option for us.

My daughter refused to sleep in the Moses basket too! We put the sleepyhead in the bed with us and she slept on that; although usually had to let her fall asleep on me while breast feeding before I could put her in it to sleep. We did actually put her into her cot in the nursery at 10 weeks though, and that usually worked for about half the night and at least we were able to sleep better for a few hours. We had a breathing monitor under the mattress which made me feel more comfortable that she was in a different room. As she got bigger I ended up co-sleeping more often because she was less comfortable in the sleepyhead. At 4 months though I stopped all co- sleeping and she only slept in her cot.

my 8 week old DS sleeps in his moses basket from 9ish until he wakes for his second night feed at around 5.30, then we co-sleep for 2-3 extra hours.

Like everyone else has suggested, some babies just don't get on with moses baskets or need to feel closer to mum, I'd say try a co sleeper or a sleepyhead.

The baby should have her own crib in the same bedroom as you as per safe sleeping guidelines. Pulling the crib up next to your bed so you can be close is lovely. Just make sure she can’t pull your sheets into her crib and get tangled at nap times.

Thank you everyone. We really need her in her own bed and not in ours. I am so very tempted with a sleepy head it's just so much money to lose if it doesn't work!
She is in our room... she is only 3 weeks old!!

To start both of ours pretty much always slept in our arms. We wore them in a wrap for daytime naps and then at night we did sleep in shifts, one of us would be awake and hold baby and the other would sleep (I would wake up for feeds) and then we’d switch half way through the night. Our first wouldn’t sleep not being held until 6 weeks so we did that until then. And then we’ve always co-slept but initially when they’re tiny in a cot attached to our bed. But little babies don’t like to sleep alone and often don’t like to sleep flat so taking turns holding and wearing may help get you to the point she will be put down to sleep.

Somehow she manages to sleep during the day on her own in her poddle pod but at night nothing works!
We have purchased a sleepyhead and we will see how we get on. I'm starting to think the problem is her Moses basket as it's a rocking stand and too open for her!

Check facebook for a second hand sleepyhead; there always seems to be some for sale around the £50-60 mark!

In a Next 2 Me. I would HIGHLY recommend the Love to Dream arms up swaddle. My DS happily slept in his crib and I’m positive the swaddle made all the difference. It’s much easier to put on than a traditional swaddle, thinner so lower risk of overheating and a more natural position allowing baby access to its hands for soothing/sucking.

DD pretty much slept on my chest for the first 4 or 5 weeks. The Sleepyhead wasn't a miracle cure for us unfortunately but she gradually got better at going in it and by around 6 weeks was sleeping most of the night in her Snuzpod. She's now nearly 5 months old and we have no problems getting her down at night, she won't even entertain sleeping on us anymore.

Some babies just won't sleep alone in those first few weeks no matter what you try but it does pass.

On my bed initially (bloke left bedroom) and from 10 weeks in a huge cotbed in my room :) (bloke has returned

My son is 3 months old and has slept in his Moses basket from the day we brought him home. I've been lucky he's slept in it absolutely fine with no issues. I personally wouldn't have baby sleeping in the bed with me, for the obvious reasons and i imagine it would be a nightmare to eventually get them out the habit of it.

The same carrycot that I slept in as a baby. Then a cot we were given by friends when their babies grew up