Help!! My 7 week old won't settle in her moses basket at night :(

[lucylev]

Hello,

Our 7 weeks old hates her Moses Basket at night and constantly want's to be held/comforted by her dad and Me, I'm co sleeping with her atm which i hate and tell myself everynight its the last night but somehow it doesnt happen, last night we did a last feed at 9pm and put her down in her basket ( still awake ) and She was still screaming until 10.30 when finally i went up to comfort her ( picked her up and she stopped immediately crying and went to sleep with us) She is absolutly fine during the day and can go up to 3 hours easily sleeping, i'm not in a strict routine or anything with her and am pretty much going with the flow which im happy with during day, we are getting good sleep at night once we are all asleep eg 1am-6.45 this morn but i really dont want to co sleep any more and would love for her to settle in her basket,
Any advice would be greatly appreciated, we are starting from tonight no more sleeping with me

my dd (now 10 weeks) has also struggled to settle in her own bed, preferring to be held. I have to cuddle her till she sleeps then put her down. She has gradually slept longer and now sleeps well at night waking about every 3 hours to feed, but she usually goes back to sleep quickly. If she stirs she can sometimes be soothed just by a hand on her chest but sometimes i have to pick her up and put her down when she sleeps. My HV has said we should be aiming to put her down awake but she just screams and I'm not prepared to leave her to cry for hours. At least the way we are doing it I am getting a fair bit of sleep - like you I don't want to co-sleep although dd does sleep well that way.

sorry, should also have said, swaddling her has helped massively in making her feel secure enough to sleep in her own bed

Hello Lucylev,

No advice as I'm in the same boat, co-sleeping out of necessity with my 10 week-old. Feel free to join a whole bunch of us with non-basket-settling babies on
this thread

In case it reassures you: It's probably nothing you're doing wrong, or failing to do. Some babies just seem to be snugglier (desperately trying to put a positive spin on this) than others...

great thanks both of you, i will join the thread and see how we go :))