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My 7-week-old baby girl still refuses to sleep in her next-to-me bed 😢 She’ll only contact nap all night. During the day, she’s fine and can nap in her bed for about 30 minutes, but at night, the moment we put her down, she wakes up fussy and crying.

She does sleep through the night on us, which is great, but we’re still taking shifts and staying awake 😭 Just hoping she’ll eventually start accepting her bed at some point.

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My daughter is 8 weeks and when she was 2ish weeks she started refusing her bed she’d wake up every hour until one night I accidentally fell asleep with her next to me that night we slept 4 straight hours it was amazing from then on I’ve safe co slept with her for my own sanity and since then we are asleep by 10-10:30 till 2ish she wakes once in the night for a feed then we sleep till 8am it’s amazing just aslong as you follow the safe co sleep rules everything will be fine x

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Honestly I’ve co slept with my children and it works for us. My first I co-slept for after 6 weeks as I couldn’t handle the sleep deprivation any longer and she the. Woke once a night for a feed. My baby is now 9 weeks co slept from the beginning and he went from 2 night feeds to now just 1. Sleep by 8pm first feed at 2 and then wakes at 6-7. You can do it very safely and my first child slept through from 7 months.

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My LO wouldnt sleep in the next to me crib but we had a moses basket from our first. We put the moses basket in the crib (it was a perfect size) and she slept perfectly well. I think she felt too exposed but we managed to get her to sleep in the next to me after a few nights and in the love to dream swaddle. It took time for her to adjust but she got there

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Honestly if you've found a way for her to sleep through the night....I'd take it😂 look up safe chest sleeping so you can also sleep x

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I don't know if that could help in your situation but I use a dirty t-shirt under her head that is tightly tucked in under the mattress so she can still smell me.
I also warm up the bed with a heated mat before I transfer her (and remove it before she goes in).
She slowly accepted the next to me. Some nights she's a bit more unsettled and tends to moan and wake up but giving her the dummy seems to settle her again.

And sometimes she won't want to stay in the next to me and I end up co sleeping or chest sleeping 🤷🏻‍♀️

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