I have already posted this under 'parenting' but thought it made sense to post under 'sleep' as well.
My ds is 7 weeks old as we have always coslept. 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. I have tried putting him in awake and asleep but as soon as he realises he is not being held he cries.
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 tired 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 sleep for him. He sleeps really well over night in our bed from about half ten to half four and then feed and thrn asleep again until eight ish. I am interested how other people get their dc to go to sleep in their basket and how long this takes?
Thanks in advance.