Should I be encouraging/trying to help DS to sleep?

[Sparrowlegs248]

He's 4wks old. Currently he feeds to sleep, and i try to put him down. Generally it works apart from after the 3am ish feed when he won't settle back in his basket. He comes and lays next to me and often continues to feed (despite me having been unable to wake him/keep him feeding just 10minutes earlier)

How ling would you leave him.unsettled in his basket? Do you hold/rock/walk at this age? He Will go back to sleep but seems to stir when i lay him.down.

Dame during the day, he Will either stay asleep when i put him down, or if not Will sleep on my lap/feeding cushion.

he's far too little to worry about any of that right now!

At that age the only thing I would do is make sure night time is night time -dark and quiet, and day time is bright and a bit noisier. Otherwise I tried to do whatever kept them happy. They were both almost always fed to sleep at that age and we coslept.

Thanks, it just occurred to me that we don't try to put him to sleep as such, didny know if i should be.

I guess i wait and see if a pattern emerges then try to keep loosely to it as he gets a bit older?

My daughter would never sleep anywhere other than my bed from 2-5 weeks then I got some advice to put the mattress in my bed during the day so it was warm and smelt of me fir night time. This worked a treat and I only had to do it for a week until she got used to sleeping in her crib now she goes back in after every feed.
Ive also never taught her to self settle and i just rock her to nap in the day when i get the early signs. She never falls asleep on the bottle other than the one she takes after her bath at half 8 and its like she just knows thats time to go to bed. She just did it herself as shes grown.
She's 12 weeks old now :) they just go through phases. Have you got the wonder weeks app? Its really good at explaining their behaviour as they develop.