Newborn Nights

What does your night look like with a newborn at the moment?
Mine often won’t settle in the Moses so myself and my husband are up in the living room doing shifts.
Ideally would like to get both of us back in the bedroom and bubs in the next to me/moses.
Any tips welcome! Formula fed baby drinking every 2.5hrs around 60/100ml over an hour feed (one week old).

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Have you tried swaddling? When we first came back from the hospital the first 2 nights was hell!! Then in the middle of the night we decided it was time for the swaddles and they went sleep almost instantly for a few hours before they wanted another bottle. Now almost 3 weeks old they’re still swaddled at night but sleep in their bed no problem just waking for bottles

Mine was like this for the first 2 nights as well. Refusing to be put down.

He’s 14 days today and now sleeps totally in the Moses basket. Big thing that helped me was getting him completely asleep before putting him down.. and putting him down feet first so as not to trigger the startle reflex. A lot of things online said transfer when half asleep but mine works much better when he is passed out, which usually means feeding a few times (EBF) and then letting him sleep on me for 10 mins before going into the basket.

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