Swing or bassinet

Babies should not sleep overnight in a swing. Swings are not considered a safe sleep surface because babies can slump forward or end up in a position that raises the risk of suffocation. Current CDC safe-sleep guidance says babies should sleep on their back, on a firm, flat, non-inclined surface such as a crib, bassinet, or play yard.

A 1 month old should only be in a swing for short, supervised sessions, generally limited to 15-30 minutes at a time, with a total of no more than one hour per day. Sleeping also increases the chances of positional asphysxiation. I say all that to say, if you let baby nap just keep a close eye out and never let them go unsupervised!

Bassinet

I wonder if baby would like a halo rocking bassinet or a snoo(expensive!!). I see them both of facebook marketplace all the time for way cheaper

It’s not safe for sleeping to be in a swing

That definitely doesn’t look safe to sleep in. Asphyxiation is silent. The risk isn’t worth it. Try the bassinet instead.

Yeah as others have said def go the bassinet route!! Cosleeping with safe sleep 7 on a firm mattress is much safer than the swing.

As someone who had their baby only able to nap in the swing for the first few months. Do what you have to do to survive/save your sanity but I wouldn’t have her sleep overnight in the swing. Co sleeping is safer and easier imo overnight anyway. But if you can get her in a bassinet all the power to you 👏🏼

I understand that the current recommendation is to sleep flat back in a Bassinet but back in the day our parents didn't follow these current recommendations and we are still ok. Many people here co sleep and that is also not recommended. Yes, there is the risk of suffocation and this is not laughing matter but I have kept my bub in a chair for a few hrs multiple times in a day and nothing has happened. This is because ive chosen a chair that is more inclined and I am ALWAYS supervising. I say whatever you do, practise it safely. I am not expert but I am a mum.

That being said it would be good to be able to practise sleeping in other places not just the swing. I've recently started to do this and it makes life a bit easier :)

There's an automatic rocking Bassinet that you can attach a mobile too! If its a bit pricey maybe get it second hand and buy a new mattress?

They make bassinet rockers ! I have one. Its called the rockit rocker. It gently shakes the bassinet giving it a motion feeling. Just strap it on and let it go and it'll rock them to sleep if they like motion !

I put mine in a crib. She hated the bassinet and I didn’t want to co sleep.

She shouldn’t be sleeping in that for long periods of time xx

I wouldn’t give her a blanket , babies overheat easily .
But do try bassinets , and as you’re aware they go through a sleep regression. At 7 months I now have to retrain her to sleep in her bassinet and crib.

So dangerous to be having her sleep in that overnight. Either continue co-sleeping or get a next to me for her to sleep in. Shouldn’t be napping in a swing either and should be limited to no longer than 15-30 minutes at a time.

As others have said, swings are not safe for sleep especially with the blanket. They pose positional asphyxiation and suffocation risks.

Ok, thank you all. I know the blanket isn't safe for her sleeping by herself/while we're asleep, but my partner or I are always keeping an eye on her. As for the asphyxiation risk, I had heard of that, but didn't realize it was an issue in the swing. Ok, we'll keep working on the bassinet. Thanks again!

Yeah, only reason why I'm considering different things, including why we're co-sleeping at the moment at least, it's because she did not want to sleep alone from night two. She's starting to get used to more things now, his happy in the stroller for a good walk, or the car seat when we need to go different places, I know that's all time sleeping solution, but obviously needs to be used for travel, but the bassinet is still considered new so still working on that. Our mattress for my and my husband's bed is pretty firm, more so than I think your standard adult mattress
We got it because my back was hurting at the time, because I was pregnant with their first daughter. And I make sure my arms are on top of the covers so she wouldn't pull them over her. The best that we got her just stay by the side of the bed and you can even open the side part way so that I can put my hand in there to comfort her, but she's still not ready to spend a long period of time in there even like that.

Just finishing cuz my last response was too long. The longest she's gone in her bassinet was 25 minutes and 35 minutes. For the 25 we were all talking to her and socializing with her the whole time and the lights are on and everything. The 35 minutes she was napping and my husband's arms and he put her in there and she slept for about 25 minutes woke up and was okay for another 10 then got upset. She usually doesn't stay asleep when transferred for longer than a couple of minutes so that was very surprising. Our older daughter was okay in the crib the first night home, and didn't have really any sleeping issues until about 5 and 1/2 months when she had her first sleep regression. We didn't try co-sleeping because we already had a separate room for her and some level we thought it was better to keep that and try to muscle through the no sleep. After months of that we bought a sleep training program, and that finally helped us move past that particularly rough stage.

But the lack of sleep for us and other issues, wound up bleeding to a lot of trauma which none of us are looking to repeat. Plus the sleep training was basically crying out with comfort, which I'm most about looking to repeat, and only did it then cuz I was desperate. Not that everyone needed to know all of this, LOL, but just for why we're considering lots of different options now. The only other thing to mention is that we live in a two-bedroom apartment and at the moment can't afford bigger so that's why she's in our room to begin with. She could stay in her older daughter's room but then we'd have to wake her up whenever she needed to be fed or otherwise cared for throughout the night. We didn't want her to lose sleep as well.

Yeah, that's what I've heard. She wasn't at her last checkup, but close to it. Her next checkup is on the 9th, so she's probably there by now or will be by then, but since I haven't heard for sure I'm continuing to wake her up to feed her. I also haven't gotten my pump in yet, and I want to make sure my supply sticks around so I figure I have to get up anyway to pump or feed her, to keep up my supply and since there's no pump, lol, makes sense to feed her. We had to wake our first daughter up to feed her until she was 3 months old, and she was partially formula fed, so I was somewhat mentally prepared for this part of it.

babies want to be close to you, especially at 5 weeks. unless you want her to sleep in a bassinet for safety reasons, i would just keep
cosleeping

I coslept with my daughter (she's 10 now) and I coslept with my son (he'll be 3months this month) he wouldn't sleep in the bassinet at first so in order for me and his father to get any type of rest we let him sleep with us, I worked on slowly transitioning him to sleep in his bassinet by setting up his tummy time mat in there for a little bit to get him use to being in there and associating it with fun/good things, now im able to get him to sleep and lay him in his bassinet for bed, its bedside so its easy for me to check on him through the night. It took some time, but now hes enjoying sleeping on his own.

Funny side note, my son can sleep through anything, even loud noises, his favorite ASMR sound is a running Blowdryer, soothes him and knocks him clean out.