How to make a bassinet more comfortable

Anyone have any tips or tricks on how to make a bassinet pad more comfortable
I have like 2 soft blankets but she’s still barley comfortable and sleeping with me almost every night

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Speaking as a mom of a Velcro baby who wouldn’t let me put her down forever and still fights me hourly on the crib 8 months later… its not that it’s not comfortable, babies are just designed to want and need to be near us. (Some more than others. Temperament really effects this!) You can’t out anything in the bassinet with them especially blankets.

You CAN try these things:
Heating pad. Heat it up and remove it before transferring her and make sure it’s not too hot of course. You can also try sleeping with the bassinet sheet and putting that in there the next day so it smells like you.

Highly suggest @heysleepbaby on insta

I personally put a plush blanket down as a sheet to make it more comfortable for my lil baby and that seemed to help him sleep better…. Like a small fleece blanket make sure you tuck it so that it is snug and has no bubbles or access fabric.. smooth it out just like a fitted sheet and you should be fine

It’s so hard! It’s recommended that nothing stays in the bassinet, for the exception of a fitted sheet that’s made by the manufacturer.

So the best things are definitely what recommended.

I'm not even gonna lie, and call me a bad mom for this, but I put a pillow down in my daughter's bassinet for her to sleep on. It was literally the same size as her bassinet so there wasn't any crevices she could fall into, and she was too young to roll over at the time, and she loved it. It wasn't too soft, and it wasn't too hard. It worked out well for her. Now that she sleeps in her crib I don't do that. But when she was little little, a pillow was key for her to sleep peacefully.

Ya she 3 months now on the 14th
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I put a fitted sheet, a thick blanket and then another fitted sheet with nothing else in it

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