If you wore your newborn in sling a lot for naps did it cause a problem with their sleep

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If you wore your newborn in sling a lot, did it cause a problem with their sleep e.g. Self settling, independent sleep.

I find myself wearing dc2 nearly all day. He is 5 wks and will take ages to settle in his cot. Then will be awake 20 mins later. Carrying him about, he goes to sleep fast and for a long time.

I have a 25 month old so I can't keep resettling but is this going to cause me a problem later? I felt dc1's learning to self settle was key to her sleeping through at 5 months. She always napped in her cot.

I wore dd1 loads but she did sleep through ok (self settling took a while but I was soft and used to hold her til she slept).

Interested in what people say as I am very reliant in my sling. Dd is 12 weeks now and will only really nap in buggy, sling or attached to boob! She sleeps in her cot at night but won't in the day. I've kind of just fit used to wearing her a lot and enjoy it but I'm hoping I won't have to do it much longer as she's going to get too heavy!

I wore DS in a sling a fair bit. Took a bit of effort but he naps fine in the cot now at 8 months & has for a while.

I would transfer him sleepy but wake from sling to cot at around 5 months & he would roll over & drop off more often than not.

At 5 weeks he is still so tiny I really don't think you can cause bad habits that young. my understanding is that most babies don't learn to self settle till mch older and don't have the capacity to create memories in the way that might lead to them forming dependancies. In the end you have another child and you need to do what you need to in order to look after them both and if that means wearing a sling for naps then I think that's fine. if you are into that kind of thing you can do some sleep training when they are older to move them into a cot.