Sleep questions for a new mum!

[jilljill2891]

My little boy is 3 weeks old and I know now is too early for routines, leaving him in bed upstairs etc, but I have lots of questions and would love other peoples opinions and their best practices if poss!

When can I start a routine of putting him in the bath, giving him a bottle,reading a book and going to bed at a reasonable hour (7-8pm)?

I struggle to put him in his Moses basket without him waking up after he's fallen asleep on me - I've tried warming the sheet up, putting my pyjama top in there so he can smell me - but he has to be completely zonked to stay asleep in there. Any suggestions?

Is it bad practice to allow him to fall asleep on me during the day for a nap? (I'd like to put him down sometimes but see above!!) will he expect to fall asleep on me all of the time? Or is he too young to be affected yet?

I still get lots of visitors wanting to meet him so he's often handled, passed around and cuddled by lots of different people. If he's asleep he generally stays asleep while being passed from pillar to post but if he's awake will this affect him - like over stimulate him?

Last, he's really bad for fighting his sleep so ends up cranky - any suggestions on how to stop this?

I know he's only 3 weeks old but i don't want to get into bad habits now if I can help it!

Thanks for reading if you've got this far, just realised how long this is!xx

My son spent the first 3 months sleeping on me and only sleeping on me, he just seemed to grow out of it himself.

Don't worry about bad habits just yet, it's still early days.

My advice is enjoy those wonderful sleepy baby snuggles while you can.. Before you know it they don't want cuddles anymore! My son is 8 month and fights off cuddles now as there's too many more interesting things to do.

If he fights sleep just try rocking him gently while you feed him (this still works on mine if he fights sleep, he's gone within 5 minutes)

It's early days yet, just enjoy your wonderful bundle of joy, he will only be so snuggly for a short time :)

My ds hated his Moses basket ( I was devastated I lavished so much love on that object , gazing at it before he was born lol ). Moved him into his carrycot with much more success!

He napped in his bouncy chair.

I started a nighttime routine at about 6 weeks - Bath, bottle and bed before 7pm but it took weeks and weeks of perseverance/shush patting for her to stay asleep in her moses basket. Was well worth the effort though as she now self settles at 6.30pm and usually sleeps through with a dreamfeed (shes 18wks).
Day time naps are much more flexible though, she still sometimes sleeps on me. Its nice to enjoy the cuddles while they still want to cuddle you!

Also white noise machines are great & I use a dummy with DD.