Hey mamas 😊
I’m a first time mama to a beautiful baby girl (3months tomoro) and was hoping to get some insight.
My baby girl sleeps amazing but only on me, my chest and I’ve tried laying her down on her back but she wakes instantly every time. So at night it’s very challenging, even throughout the day all her naps are on me as she wakes if I put her down. My baby girl doesn’t like a swaddle, she escapes and her arms just fight it lol
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Have you tried the love to dream transitional swaddle? It’s arms up and completely closed

Have you tried a blanket to lightly swaddle her? My boy also hates swaddles and blankets. I then settle her every minute. My boy uses a dummy so I keep placing his dummy back in until he falls asleep. The first 2 months were spent cheat sleeping.
Day naps very hit or miss. Sometimes will sleep long stretches and sometimes not. I do have a loud toddler who wakes him up too lol

Hot water bottle on the cot before she goes down, wear her sheet so it smells of you?

My son is the same, it’s very much a hit or miss whether he sleeps in his cot or not. He always wants to sleep on me however something that has helped lately is getting one of the battery operated bouncers that are cushioned and vibrates. Even if he’s fussing at first he ends up settling and falling asleep

I’m sure you’ve tried it but I sometimes have success if I put on white noise and then put baby down bum first so they don’t feel like they’re falling, then I keep my face really close to his, shushing and holding my hand on his chest until he settles. Sometimes it fails but that’s just life with a baby I guess!

Have you tried pick up put down method where you just pick her up, don’t sit down and just rock her back to sleep then put her down. You just do that over and over until she gets it that this is where she is sleeping. The first few nights will be hell but she’ll get used to it.

The two things that help my girl:
I hold my girl in her sleep bag and feed her to sleep. I think her sleep bag helps the temperature to remain warm from arms to cot. I then check how sleepy she is by picking up her arm and dropping it. If it flops, I then transition her to her cot.
The other thing we did was continuously put her down in her cot. Every time she woke, we soothed her and then put her down again. I found I needed to have energy to do this though.
I have a friends who practice safe co-sleeping as their babies will not sleep I independently. They’re all different Xx