Sleep shifts

Don’t do shifts but I find the grunting etc hard to switch off from too! I’ve found a white noise machine and ear plugs do the trick! In regards to Moses basket, the only thing we have found to work is a Rockitt xx

We also do shifts as the noises keep us up too! I usually get 10-2 and my husband gets 2-6 and then he comes back so we do the last 2 or 3 hours together and spend some of the night in the same room!

We struggled with this for a good few weeks. We tried sleeping with the Moses sheet so it smelt like us, napping in the day in it so she got used to it and when we moved her into our next to me cot at 6 weeks we had a purflo sleep nest in there so it wasn’t too big for her as she kept waking without it but ultimately just needed to push through both being woken up as this was more important to our relationship than sleeping separately You’ve got this 🙌.

Yes - did it with my first and doing it with my second. I’m also awful at sleeping next to the noises so the only time I get decent sleep is when my husband is on shift. With my son we stopped it at 6/7 months when he went into his own room xx

Me and my partner take turns to sleep on the side of the bed with the babies, could you try that? I find that the noises don’t disturb me as much if I’m on the other side facing away xx

We’ve been doing the same for the last month (first time parents) and tbh i havent moved to the bedroom yet (sleeping in the living room as for some reason i feel more comfortable there). Looking forward to when we confident enough to all sleep in the same room (doubt it will be anytime soon).

We’ve been doing the same thing, my husband typically does 11p-5a (he’s used to working night shifts) and I do 5A onwards, I usually let him sleep til about 1pm. I pump before and after his shifts. We have two bassinets upstairs- one bedside and one in the nursery and a pack n play downstairs. The baby usually either sleeps in the nursery or downstairs in the pack n play. Lately we have been having her sleep for longer stretches in the nursery, there is a guest bed in there so we either sleep with her or keep the video monitor next to us while we sleep in our room. This has been working well the last few nights. The nursery is right next to us too so we can hear her if she cries. I’m leaning towards keeping it this way. I’m not using the bedside bassinet as much as I expected to, it just doesn’t work for us because neither of us get sleep that way.