Baby sleep help

In hospital first night after csection. Baby won’t let me put her down. How can I help persuade her to sleep in the cot so I can get some sleep. This isn’t sustainable 😅😖

I'm looking into bassinet/cot/bed options for our small nursery room with our super tight budget and I remembered that when my sister was in a similar situation, she used a bassinet for around 8 months and then just moved straight to a normal single bed (with a firm mattress) and a guard rail. She didn't bother with getting a cot because they couldn't afford it but already had a spare single bed they could use.

All the advice online seems to tell me this is a terrible idea but her kid has turned out absolutely fine (she's 4 now). Does anyone else have a similar experience of space/budget issues and skipping a "step" when it comes to beds? Do you HAVE to go from bassinet to cot first ?

My baby will be 4 months next week. Until this past weekend she's mostly slept on me or my husband and we've been sleeping in shifts so someone is always up with her but that doesn't feel sustainable for us. We just started working on getting her to sleep in her bedside bassinet.

If we put her in the bassinet unswaddled or swaddled with arms out she startles awake constantly, but we've been told if she's starting to roll over (she is) she shouldn't be in the swaddle while we're asleep. What is the solution to this?

I just read that at 4 months we should start putting her to bed around 6:30 or 7:30pm. I also know we're not supposed to let her sleep in a room by herself until at least 6 months, preferably a year. Are we supposed to go to bed with her at 7:30pm and stay in the bedroom with her until whenever she wakes up in the morning?? What's the solution to this?

I feel so confused and anxious about keeping our baby safe AND making sure she sleeps well AND trying to do literally anything else. Help please!

How do I help my 4 month old to not need a bottle to get him to sleep during night wake ups? He is up about every 2 hours and I give him his paci and try to help him go back to sleep but he usually starts crying and I feed him. He falls right back asleep and the same thing continues throughout the night. I know I am partially to blame but how do I fix it now? He puts himself to sleep for naps and for the night, it’s just those middle of the night wake ups.

I just want a nice long stretch of sleep at this point 😭

My baby is 7 months old and we cannot figure out a nap schedule at all. We did 2 naps for about a week and then she all of sudden went back to 4 naps and then back to 3. I know developmental changes and milestones can mess with sleep but this happens at the end of every month for about 2 weeks. And then she’ll settle into a “schedule” for a week or so and then it’s right back to every days just a guessing game.

She does sleep through the night even though we’ve had more wake ups here lately but she puts her self right back to sleep so we’re grateful for that.

I’d be fine with letting her stay up all day if that’s what she wanted but it’s clearly not as when these phases come through she’s pretty miserable all day from what I’m assuming if because she’s tired.

I don’t care if we don’t have a hard schedule we stick to but it would be nice to understand why one day she can follow wake windows and the very next she can barley make it an hour.

Anyone else’s baby go through this and did they stay like this or it got better the older they got?