How's everyone getting on with their new babies?

We're 1 week 2 days in and can't believe how fast time is passing! Loving the cuddles but we've struggled with breastfeeding. Baby will not tolerate the crib or moses basket so we're doing lots of contact naps and a bit of co-sleeping. Interested to hear how everyone else is faring!

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We are 7 weeks today and yes it's flying by!! Same here, he won't really settle in next to me crib, so have lots of contact naps and co-sleeping! Breast feeding is the best/worst thing, I have such a love hate relationship with it 😅

Mines 12 weeks and it’s flown by. Also struggled majorly with getting him into his bassinet or cot. He wakes up after every sleep cycle and needs to be rocked back to sleep but will sleep fine on our chests or next to us. Still do try to get him into his cot everyday but don’t know if I should just give up on this at this point?!

Mine is almost 2yrs! Time flew so fast!

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We're doing well 😊 baby no2 is 5 weeks and such a good baby. His brother would never go down in his moses basket but this one will for at least the first few hours every night! He's breastfeeding and putting on weight like a champ after we got his tongue tie fixed which was causing him trouble at the start. It's lovely being a family of 4 x

I would say if you would like them to sleep more often than not in cot then perserve with putting in the cot/bassinet.

Ours suddenly started accepting it at around 10weeks. We’re 15weeks now. I just decided around 6/7weeks that he couldn’t do every nap as a contact nap, and started putting him in the next to me one nap a day, I would pat and shush him to sleep, rather than rock as hoped he’d stand more chance of not having the shock when he no longer had warm arms around and could hopefully get through the sleep cycle. He now does 70% of naps in the next to me, although only one a day does he get further than one sleep cycle. And at night time I would say in general it’s only the last couple of hours of the night maybe 3times a week a comes into our bed.

For me it was personal choice, as I needed to be able to get on with dinner, as other half doesn’t get home from work till late. And I don’t sleep very well if he’s in our bed, wake up in agony after an hour

I’ve co-slept in the night from the beginning as I lost a lot of sleep with my first baby wasting time trying to put him in the cot all night.
I am struggling with laying down breastfeeding though, baby is only 3wks though so I think once she’s bigger it will get easier!

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