Putting baby down

Have you considered safely co sleeping following the safe sleep 7, also have you tried putting her down feet, bum then head last? I feel like that’s quite a well known trick but just incase that’s always worked quite well for me x

Try warming her cot with a hot water bottle whilst you are cuddling

There is a trick you can use if you don't know it already, to determine if they are in a deep sleep - lift up her arm, and see if it stays suspended there when you let it go, or if it drops. If it stays suspended she is in active sleep, and likely to wake up if you transfer her. If it drops, she is in a deep sleep and you'll likely have better success.

That said, some babies really just don't want to be put down and have a sixth sense for when they are about to be. It may take time, but the more you are there to pick her back up when she cries, the more she will begin to trust that you are there next to her and not far away.

Also - newborns are very active sleepers. Make sure that when you hear her make noise, you don't pick her up unless she's actually crying, because you could inadvertently wake her without meaning to. Lots of newborn sleep noises (snuffling, gurgling) seem like "awake" noise, but are actually just active sleep.

Our boy is just three weeks and we seem to have cracked the code, we don’t really let him wake for feeds in the night we do dream feeds and then he stays on us for a little bit to make sure he’s in a really deep sleep again after eating and then we lower him in, making sure his bum touches the mattress first as this is supposed to minimise the startle reflex. We also use a love to dream swaddle and he’s super content in that but hated a ‘normal’ swaddle!

Thank you everyone for the advice! I’ll be taking these suggestions on board😊xxx

This has popped up on my feed although mine is an end of May baby - also hated trad swaddles but the love to dream arms up swaddle was an absolute saviour. I was losing my mind on no sleep by the time she was 3 weeks old, tried these and went to getting 90 minutes after cot transfer after starting using them on the first night to a few hours at a time within a week or two.
Very sad to have to transition out of them now to prepare for her learning to roll at 12 weeks and with her arms free I’ve gone from 1-2 wakes a night to 3-4.