My 6mo has coslept with me since the beginning. As a newborn I was taking the path of least resistance and it has just continued to be the easiest thing. She will feed to sleep then wake up throughout the night, latch back on and get back off to sleep. I’m really keen to get her out of the bed now. Only into a bassinet that’s attached to my side of the bed! But she is having none of it.
Everything I read says to start off with day time naps in there. She has been doing this for several months. She will go to sleep in the bassinet for naps during the day, i feed her most of the way asleep then pat her bum til she’s off. Anyway, I’m at a loss about the next steps to take to get her sleeping in there at night. She screams as soon as put down. I tried for 1.5 hours tonight to no avail and have given up and got her into bed with me. She’s currently fast asleep tucked up right into my body.
Anyone have any tips or success stories? I don’t want to leave it too long as I think all of us are having worse sleep than we need to with this arrangement! But I’m at a loss of how to wean her off this closeness to me she has gotten so used to. Tia x