My baby won’t sleep in her snuzpod, does anyone have any ideas to help?

My 8 week old has been struggling to sleep in her snuzpod for the past few weeks. As soon as she is put down she wakes up crying but if I put her on my bed she sleeps so well. I really don’t like co-sleeping, I sleep on the edge of the bed because I’m so worried about her sleeping with me but I’ve been up all night trying to put her into her crib and I’m at my wits end. I’ve tried putting extra layers to make it more comfortable, I’ve tried leaning in there with her as she’s falling asleep, putting a shirt I’ve worn in (tightly around the mattress) and nothing. I don’t want her getting used to my bed as sleep training later will be hard. Does anyone have any tips or ideas?
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Might be worth trying a swaddle sleep bag. We use the tommee tippee ones and have done since our LG was 2 days old as she hates a blanket and makes her feel like she's being held/cuddled. They do ones that start from birth (provided her weight is above the minimum)

Me LO does the same he started this since 2 months Now he is 5 and doesn’t want to sleep in the snuzpod I too tried the tshirt part but nothing worked for me I’m literally sleeping on the edge 😭 😭

I am also struggling with this my boys nearly three months and we co sleep he just does not sleep in the bed side crib 😭

my little girls the same but she loved her moses basket, possibly try that ? xx

My little girl was like this for the first 8 weeks and I found myself co sleeping because I was exhausted. I started putting her in a sleeping bag around 9-10 weeks and I kicked myself for not doing it sooner because she began going down and not waking like she use to. I do allow her to sleep with me for the first hour or so, before transferring her xx

Ahh forgot to mention she does sleep in a love to dream swaddle too

Sorry I remember this all so well and it was frustrating. I have no advice as I caved and coslept. But you are not alone!

Mine was the same, but when I got her the Merlin Magic Sleepsuit she sleeps a little bit better in the bassinet. Maybe you should give it a try

I went through a phase like this at 6 weeks and I started cosleeping before slowly persisting at putting her back in her Snoo. After a week or so she started doing longer and longer stretches back in her bed. So much is happening for them developmentally right now they can go through phases where they just need to be close to us for that extra security. Things change a lot at this age and quickly, I know it’s not the most helpful advice but I would just keep persisting because it’s likely things will change x

Still pregnant but a friend’s advice to me was to get a cot and level the mattress with our bed then take off one side and attach it, so it’s like an extension of our bed. So that’s what we’re doing, I guess it’s kind of cosleeping but they have their own bed too.

@Kathryn you can get ‘next to me cots’ and cots where the side drops down which are designed to go next to your bed. Makes things easier for you than altering a normal cot and is helpful to get baby in and out frequently when they’re little but it’s not considered cosleeping 😊 x

This may just be a phase! Our daughter went through it between 6-10 weeks and would only sleep on us. We just had to take shifts and let her contact sleep and ride it out. Sorry for the lack of advice there, there’s lots of phases and sleep need changes when babies are so tiny! Alternatively have you tried something that smells like you, ie a tshirt/muslin, under the bedsheet?

We tried every trick in the book and concluded our boy was 100% untransferrable. He has a sensitive temperament, clingiest kid you’ll ever meet, and cluster fed to an extreme amount. Safe sleep 7 bedsharing was the only way to survive. Once I researched how to do it safely and the statistics, I felt safe and comfortable doing it. We never did any sleep training as it would have been too traumatic for him due to his temperament

Have you tried warming the crib with a hot water bottle or heating pad (obviously removing before you put baby in) this used to work for our little girl xx

My son was like this - a swaddle bag helped massively

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Our wee boy was similar to start with, so initially we just used the Moses Basket! Then when we moved back to the Snüzpod, I’d leave my pjs in it during the day and any clothes from the day before so that it smelt like me too, for him going in at night - that was recommended by one of our friends who is a midwife :)

My LO was the same, she screamed when we put her into the next to me. We tried the Moses basket and she was fine so we think the next to me may have been too big for her? She eventually went into the next to me once she was a little bigger xx

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