Self-settling
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Babies can’t self soothe or settle until atleast 12 weeks old so whatever you decide to do for 12 weeks it will not affect how they self soothe after the newborn stage. You literally need to put your baby to sleep with either milk or a rock sensation she’s waking up because the transition to crib not the habit x
My little girl is 7+ months and she still can't settle 🙃 she will wake up as soon as I try to put her down in her pram for naps and at night she will only fall asleep on the boob. Sorry if this doesn't help, just to say that it's very normal for an 11 days old baby to want to sleep on you x
Babies don’t learn to self settle, they learn that their parent doesn’t respond to their needs. No offence to your mother but you should ignore her advice. It is outdated and cruel. You can’t create bad habits by holding and caring for babies but you can definitely create them by not responding to their needs and their cries. I won’t ever ‘sleep train’ my son.
P.s huge congratulations on your baby ❤️
Nope. They can’t self sooth until 4-5 months
Nope, babies that young can't learn to self settle! I didn't start trying to do this until my girl was at least 3 months old. Even now at 11 months she's had to learn it again, sleep has been SO up and down!
My oldest is 5 years old and still can’t self settle herself to sleep🤷🏼♀️
My mum likes to tell me that I slept through the night and self settled from 4 weeks. What she fails to remember is that this was back in the days when babies slept on their own in their own room from birth, so she probably just stopped waking up to me 🙃 I take everything my mum says/advises with a HUGE pinch of salt
Ignore and enjoy all the sleepy cuddles. They don’t last forever
My baby girl hated the cot and sleeping on her back. After a contact sleep with my partner, she would sleep on my chest from 1am-5am every night til she was about 5 weeks old. I would eat snacks and watch tv to stay awake holding her. It was hard but I looooved those times just us two even though she was asleep 🥹. She never went in the next to me in the early says But now she sleeps through on her own - it'll all work out!
My baby has never gone down independently. We have rocked her to sleep for all of her sleeps. She sleeps all night long independently in her own nursery and has done for 3 months straight. Every mom and baby are different!
My advice is do not listen to other people, especially family! You do what you have to do to settle your baby to make them comfortable. My 4 month old girl loves to be cuddled to sleep during the day but night she can self settle. Soak in the baby bubble and enjoy the cuddles. It’s a special way of bonding. I wished I done it more when my girl was a newborn 🩷
No you can’t. Way too young. We did the same thing for the first month of her life