12 week old never slept apart…how do I stop cosleeping

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So my lovely 12week old baby has contact napped and coslept since the hospital.

Everytime I’ve put her down she screams. She won’t sleep anywhere but with me. She hates the pram. Despises the car seat.

She will sleep in the carrier on walks, otherwise she has to be fed to sleep.

part of me loves the closeness, and I know she’s small for such a short time. But at some point I would like her to go in her next to me before she’s outgrown it.

I feel like I’ve tried all the tips, heating it up, wearing her sheet in my clothes, making it smell like me, making it smell like milk.

we’ve tried rocking and patting and shushing but she just gets angrier and angrier.

Sidelying feeding is instantly successful but if I move an inch, she wakes.

It's hard... it's gradual... it's different for everyone
I worked on day naps first. Because I had more patience on the day and so it was about getting her into sleepyhead / basinetteonce asleep.

Day naps in bed together me in bed.her in sleepyhead on bed while I was touching her etc

Then night time we worked on basinette next to bed / next to me type thing.

My mum pushed me to put the baby down more / try more / let her cry a bit more.
I felt quite pressured and pushed at the time but honestly in retrospect she was right! My DH and I were basically scared of her crying so I'd wander round holding her 22 hours a day life gotuch better once she could nap on her own

This event might help… it’s on today though.
https://facebook.com/events/s/introducing-a-crib-to-bedshari/3712110145674776/

Sorry not sure linked work but it’s from happy cosleepers on Facebook. She also has an insta account which is worth a follow. She is talking about transitioning from cosleeping to crib/own sleep space.