Baby Hammock/Swaddle Wrap

[piximon]

I'm having a nightmare trying to get my 3 week old to sleep if she's not on a lap or being held.
Does anyone have any experience with either of these items. I've tryed swaddling with a sheet or blanket but no luck, she hates the crib and moses basket and I don't want to waste any more money.
Thanks for any info/advice.
piximon

Tbh if swaddling her with a sheet or blanket isn't working I doubt some other product will. I used to carry dd in a wilkienet to get her to nap during the day adn used it at night when she was having her evening screaming party. I pretty much had her in the bed for the first 6 weeks and gradually played musically beds with the moses basket. I think she preferred the cot in the end. I had it jammed up against the bed and put my hand in through the bars to stroke her and let her suck my finger. Good luck, it will get easier.

My son was the other way, he had to be swaddled in a sheet or blanket when he slept and on a night he needed a dummy. have your tried using a dummy at night? I didn't want to but in the end i gave in - but only on a night. try leaving music on or a tv on low, the noise will make her think some one is still around. whatever you do dont give in to letting her fall asleep in your arms before you put her down - she will expect it all the time, just persist putting her in her moses basket to sleep and because she is so young she will learn and you won't have the trouble later on when she is becoming more alert.

My ds was like this so I rolled one of his blankets up like a big sausage and putit around his arms and head. It worked wonders cause he felt he was still being held. I hope you know what I mean. Put the blanket in a U shape in his cot, crib whatever then lay baby in it. Head at the top of the U. I don't think I'm making any sence am I??

We love our hammock, but I wouldn't get one in the hope that it would fix a non-sleeping baby. It might -- but there's no guarantee at all, it all depends on what the baby likes! For us, it helped because she loved being rocked, but if being held quietly is what does it, I wouldn't make large bets.

When she wanted people, we wrapped her in a blanket before picking her up, and held her until she was solidly asleep (about 20 minutes, or when you can waggle a limb about without resistance or waking the baby) and then put her down blanket and all. This usually worked. Sometimes it was less trouble than bouncing her in the hammock (in the middle of the night the hammock is definitely easier if it works, which it almost always did for us).

Thanks for your replies, I managed to get her off last night by walking around with her in the baby sling and then transfering her in the sling into her car seat, not ideal when your told to keep them lying flat but after three weeks of 2 hours sleep a night I was willing to do anything.
I think I'll be buying a swaddle wrap in the hope she can't escape it as she does like the enclosed feeling. I'm still undecided about the hammock, I figured she may love it since she loves the sling but it's so hard to know.