Baby transfer issues

I really need some advice! my girl is four months old and ever since she was born we’ve had a transfer issue from mine or my partners chest to the next to me crib we’ve done everything like wait for a deep sleep, bottom first then head when lowering, hand on chest you name it and she still wakes up and cries!! How on earth do I move past this :/

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We’ve kept everything the same every night - time of night, white noise, love to dream sleep bag, feed to sleep. I basically climb in the next to me with her to keep her ‘on my chest’ as long as possible and if she stirs at any point I stay still until it passes.

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Have you tried moving the NTM? We really struggled to transfer my LO to hers so I ended up chest sleeping, and then co-sleeping.

I found whilst she was on my chest, i could transfer her if I slowly rolled to my side with her and then co-sleep in the C position, since she could still feel me.
Then, after some time, I took the top of her next-to-me bed off and placed it safely on one side of my bed and did the transfer that way. Again, she was fine with it since I was C sleeping around the crib top. Then once she got used to that, I would lift it back onto its base before eventually moving the NTM to the other side of the bed.

Also, falling asleep in her sleeping bag made a world of difference because she wouldn’t feel the change in temperature when I’d move her from my arms to the NTM.

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Does your next to me come off the catch where you can rock her back to sleep then reclip it

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My first was like this 🫠
We tried:
White noise
Wearing a nighty and then putting that as the bottom sheet of the next to me so it smelt of me
Used a hot water bottle on the next to me prior to the transfer so it was warm
Bum first when placing down

If I’m honest she just gradually grew out of it, I can’t say much helped but man it was hard!

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Baby transfer issues

I really need some advice! my girl is four months old and ever since she was born we’ve had a transfer issue from mine or my partners chest to the next to me crib we’ve done everything like wait for a deep sleep, bottom first then head when lowering, hand on chest you name it and she still wakes up and cries!! How on earth do I move past this :/

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