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Sleep Training?

My tiny girl was born on Feb 25th, she will be 3 weeks on Tuesday 🥰 Since she has been home, she’s been resistant to the bedside bassinet and crib. For our sanity, my husband and I have switched off doing contact sleeping in a recliner with her to get sleep however we do not want to do this forever, it’s not comfy lol 🥲 my husband goes back to work after this week so a lot of the night wakes will fall to me. Any tips to getting baby to sleep independently after 3 weeks of contact sleep or anyone else in the same boat? She also hates to be swaddled (my fear of SIDS also stops me from doing this), has had bad reflux anytime we place her on her back and she’s too small for alot of the sleep sacks we used with my son. Picture of my cutie patootie ❤️

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Try a chiropractor for reflux! This sounds like my first and I really wish I had known that was helpful! Also don't be afraid of safe cosleeping. Did it with my second and night and day difference

Have you tried only swaddling her torso and letting her hands be free? You could also ask your pediatrician about slightly elevating one side of the bassinet if she has reflux, but I wouldn’t advise doing that unless a medical provider recommends it. You can also play around with waiting different amounts of time before you place her down in the bassinet.

So with my first I was so scared of bed sharing that I did the recliner thing too. Until one night she slid down and I woke up with her trapped in the crook by my hips. She was ok obviously but I immediately switched to safe bedsharing. You can look up “Safe Sleep 7” for rules on bedsharing safely. It’s a million times safer than the recliner I promise. On a different note. Bassinet sleep is really only achieved through consistency. You have to keep at it even if baby wakes every 20 mins until baby eventually gets more used to it and sleeps longer stretches. At least that’s what I’ve found.

congrats on your cutie! try rocking your baby to sleep/walking around the room while you have a heating pad in the bassinet and then remove it and transfer her slowly into it (butt first or rolling her on her side onto her back to avoid the startle reflex). mine also loves having her hands free so we swaddle her with her arms out

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