9 days old will only sleep on my chest
Wei G.
8 miesięcy temu
Our daughter is 9 days old and the second I put her down in her bassinet she wakes up screaming. She'll sleep 3 hours straight on my chest but the moment her back touches the flat mattress, eyes open. I know she's supposed to be on her back in her own space and I'm terrified of falling asleep holding her.
Is this just the newborn fog or is there something I can actually do? I'm running on about 2 hours total.
Marek Q.
8 miesięcy temu
This was us exactly. The thing that helped was warming the bassinet sheet with a hot water bottle for a minute BEFORE the transfer (taking it out first, never leaving it in), so she wasn't hitting a cold surface. Also wait until she's properly deep asleep, limbs floppy, before you move.
Vera J.
7 miesięcy temu
The contact-nap stage is so brutal and so normal. Newborns this young basically don't know they're not still inside you yet. It does pass. In the meantime please don't sleep holding her on a couch or chair, that's the riskiest spot. If you're that exhausted, wake your partner to shift-watch.
Marta
7 miesięcy temu
This article from the blog really helped us: Early Wake-Up
Marco
7 miesięcy temu
Try the 'transfer feet first' trick, lower her bum and legs in first, then head last, keeping a hand on her chest for a few seconds after. The gradual contact loss seemed to fool ours into staying asleep. Took us a few weeks to nail it though.
James
7 miesięcy temu
How's her daytime? Sometimes a baby who fights the bassinet at night is overtired by bedtime. At 9 days wake windows are tiny, like 45 min tops. Catching her before she's fried made our transfers way easier.
Julia
7 miesięcy temu
Solidarity. Just here to say 2 hours of sleep is survival mode and you're doing amazing. It genuinely gets better, the newborn 'fourth trimester' clinginess eased a lot for us around 6-7 weeks.