Baby Wont Sleep in Bassinet: How To Get A Newborn To Sleep In A Bassinet
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- It can be so physically and mentally exhausting when your baby won’t sleep in the bassinet. In these scenarios, usually, your baby prefers to sleep on you or in your arms. At first, you might have found this adorable and loved the cuddles, but as the weeks fly by you’re finding yourself being held captive and having other things that need your attention.
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2 Reasons Putting Baby to Sleep in a Bassinet Is Important:
1. Safe Sleep. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, your baby should sleep on a firm, flat surface which is a bassinet, crib, or pack and play. This safe sleep guideline helps to minimize the risks of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome,)
2. Long Game. When it comes to your newborn sleep we often don’t really know what we’re doing :) and we’re so in love with our precious little person that we promote sleeping in arms. However, when it comes to baby sleep you want to think about your
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Hi, I'm Dr. Sarah Mitchell, Sleep Consultant at Helping Babies Sleep, and in this video I will talk about 4 Reasons Why Your Newborn Won’t Sleep in the Bassinet and what you can do help your baby sleep in the bassinet.
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0:00 Bassinets for babies
0:15 Why is it important?
1:17 4 Reasons for bassinet trouble
3:13 5 TIPS for bassinet sleep
4:39 The next step
Starts at 3:20
The lords work
Incredibly annoying when they go on and on and on
Thanks
Nice and a lot of information, it will be better to see this tips being apply to a baby to see how it works. Thanks
I really hope this helps,, cuz my baby hatttteees her bassinet. I hold her 95% of the day, and I get maybe abt up to 5 hours of sleep in a day spread apart not consecutively.
Good luck. It can definitely take some time depending on her age.
Helping Babies Sleep she is 6 weeks
@@rishka9083 6 weeks is a good time to work on sleep!
I'm only 5 days in and 5 hours seem like heaven! Although broken up as well, I'm probably right where you are. Doesn't feel like 5 hours.
Did it work?
Thank you! Working on day naps in the bassinet w/ my 10-week-old. This is helpful.
We are so glad to hear this!! We also teach live weekly in this group: facebook.com/groups/helpingbabiessleep
My baby is three months old and has been co sleeping on and off and recently he just didn’t not want to sleep in his bassinet and HATES being swaddled and he use to love it. Hopefully these steps work so thank you
Good luck! 3.5 months is the beginning of the 4 month sleep regression, things change! Check out our 4 month old sleep regression video.
I use floor bed. My 6 weeks old newborn has reflux and doesn’t like to put down. I feed him less volume but more often during day time so night time he can sleep up to 4hrs at time. After eating, I burp him and do some tummy time to help with gas and digestion. that will be the game plan until 3-4 month mark, when his stomach sphincter is more mature and hopefully less reflux problems. And yes, swaddling is non-discussable. I started to use pacifier now. any suggestions!?
My 11 day old baby girl has a tongue tie and only wants to sleep on us. We are going to have it corrected soon so I hope this helps.
Thank you for sharing your immense knowledge. I have a 6 week old who was 8 weeks premature (so she shouldn't be born for a couple more weeks). I know with most things you go by adjusted age with preemies. Does that pertain to your sleeping suggestions as well?
Hope you are doing well! That's a good place to start yes.
I’m going to try this
hopefully it helps 🥴
Try it and keep working at it. It can take some time to adapt to new sleep locations.
Do you have any more videos like this for baby born doll vidoes
I"m not sure what that means?
My son is 2 weeks old should I start this now
this is good to hear my baby is 8 weeks I don’t know what to do to get her to sleep on her bassinet. Should I try to make her sleep in there in the night too or should I first try her afternoon naps in there? Someone please help.
At this age start with naps. We have more of an outline in our book too! www.amzn.com/B08WQ2J8MZ
Do you have any more tips on swaddling? My little guy can’t stand his hands covered even with mits or the mits made into the sleeves. He is 4 weeks and we have had issues with reflux also. He will lay down for a few minutes and then he spits up
So sorry to hear you are struggling. Make sure you're feeding away from sleep as that will help how much he spits up. You don't want to fill his stomach and then lie him down. You also want to think about your milk supply and how fast it's coming for him. There are many different swaddles you could look at - Merlin suit has hands free but not sure on the sizing for him, love to dream, miracle blanket, are all good.
How long should you hold them before laying them down if they spit up
@@pool8partyusually it’s recommended to wait 15-20 minutes after feeding to lay them down so the stomach has time to empty while they are upright. Some babies need a bit longer.
Been trying these tips with my 5 week old. She’s been awake for 6.5 hours now and just keeps eating. I’ve done EVERYTHING from the 5 S’s, gripe water, bicycle legs, rocking, and the only way I can get her to sleep now is a baby wrap, going on a walk and wearing her until she wakes again and then feeding her. I’m SOOOO exhausted and frustrated! Then hubby comes home from work and lets her sleep on his chest. We can get her to sleep and THEN lay her in the bassinet, but she WILL. NOT. FALL. ASLEEP. ON. HER. OWN.
We wouldn't expect her to fall asleep on her own at this age. She'll still need help, but what I'm hearing is she only falls asleep when upright in a carrier or when on someone which can be signs of discomfort such as reflux or a food sensitivity or not enough milk transfer.
she’s bottle fed milk that I pump. She does have reflux so I’ll try putting a towel under the head area of the mattress to elevate her slightly but safely. Today I made a really hard push on the bassinet training and she fought sleep all darn day, even when I dropped her off to my mom for a respite. I had to soothe and comfort her and hold her to get her to settle back down a few times but kept on trying rinse and repeat to let her down drowsy but awake until we achieved success. She’s finally asleep in her bassinet tonight after being laid down drowsy but awake. I had to take her off hubby’s chest just now after she fell asleep during a feed and burp and re-settle her before laying her down but we had a really good teaching moment where I showed him how to do it, feet, butt, back, head, etc, and how to “swaddle her like he hates her” to ensure her arms don’t wiggle free so she can’t startle/moro reflex herself awake prematurely. I’ll be doing this moving forward and am hopeful the improvement will continue.
How did you manage? Same issue here
haha omg after watching this I realised how much I was doing wrong for the last 3 weeks but not sure if I have left these bad habits too long now to fix
Well I'm glad you had some aha moments!! It's never to late to work on sleep because it's a learned habit. There are some times that are harder - such as the 3 month period, you'd want to wait until 4months. My step by step approach is available in my book on Amazon! The Helping Babies Sleep Method, the Art and Science of Teaching Your Baby to Sleep. www.amzn.com/B08WQ2J8MZ
I’m a new mom and I have a 6 week old at at a round 3 weeks old it was really difficult to get him to sleep in his bassinet or crib at 4 weeks old I found out about him having reflux which gave me really bad anxiety and I wanted him to be comfortable I started holding him more often and sometimes longer during naps before laying him down the last few days he has not allowed me to put him down at all with out screaming I need help I have also tried swaddling doesn’t really help 😓😓😓
This is very very common. You've done the right thing by helping make him more comfortable. You'll likely have to do some sleep teaching at 4 months where he can learn new sleep habits. We can help with that in Helping Babies Sleep School www.helpingbabiessleepschool.com
I have a one month old that has been cluster feeding multiple times a day and having trapped gas no matter how much we burp him. How would we get him to sleep in his bassinet?
Does my baby have to be 4 weeks old for me to begin helping/teaching her to sleep independently?
At 4 weeks we work on gentle newborn sleep shaping where you are setting baby up for success and helping fall asleep in the crib/bassinet. At 4 months we work on independent sleep where we set baby up for success with timing of sleep and feeds but offer less help to actually fall asleep. We teach you how in Helping Newborns Sleep Class!! The newborn class is a game changer and can help you minimize the impact of the 4 month sleep regression. You can learn more at www.helpignbabiessleepschool.com
Can you help me with the 5ss specialty the shh shush pat for crying and sleep
The key really is avoiding being overtired by watching cues and clock together. It's your job to decide when sleep should be happening. The clues can often be misleading.
They key is trying to avoid the crying but not keeping her up too long and knowing that you need to make sleep happen. a baby up to 3 months needs to be back asleep within 1.5 hours of being awake. Start there.
My baby is about to be 2 months. My baby just wants to sleep only in my arms. He does not like me to put him down at all. Please help me. I am so drained. I can’t sleep at all. My head hurts so much. I’m frustrated.
How are you guys doing now?? 😢
Is ok to put a 1 month old newborn in a cot when drowsy to get them to sleep (I know this is the ideal down the line) or is it ok if they fall asleep on you then you put them in?
In the Helping Babies Sleep Method the goal is to put them down calm but awake vs drowsy so they learn to associate sleep in the bassinet vs in arms. As they get older the transfer becomes harder and you get stuck. There's no right or wrong way to do this but if you want to be proactively working on avoiding common parenting pitfalls you work on falling asleep in the bassinet. You can get more details here: www.amzn.com/B08WQ2J8MZ
Any suggestions for a newborn (3.5 weeks) that seems to sleep fine in the bassinet at first but as the night progresses she refuses? I can usually get about 1.5-2 hours of sleep, but then she wakes up and won't sleep unless held. She does fine in it during the day as well. It just seems she hates it between midnight and 6 a.m.
Something is bugging her and you have to figure out what that is - usually overtired, gas, hunger, or the need to burp.
I'm in the exact same boat. He has no problems during the day but at night he wants to be on top of me.
My baby is almost 3 weeks old. She will sleep perfectly on my chest, but once I put her into the bassinet, she either wakes up within 10 minutes or maybe an hour max, so I'm not hardly getting any rest. This is my first baby, and I don't know what to do. Is she going through a growth spurt?
@@sarahtara5546 My nephew was like this until he went to daycare at 6 weeks and within two days he slept in his bassinet for hours without crying to be held
@@alexisfuller731 this is good to hear my baby is 8 weeks I don’t know what to do to get her to sleep on her bassinet. Should I try to make her sleep in there in the night too or should I first try her afternoon naps in there? Someone please help.
So if you wait until they are deep asleep is babe guaranteed to wake up when placed in bassinet?
It will increase your chance of sucess. There are no guarantees with kids :)
My baby is 8 weeks old, will I be able to change the habit of her sleeping on me?
Not too late no.
Do you feed then swaddle then put them in the bassinet? Or swaddle then feed? If we swaddled after feeding ( when she’s tired) she wakes up
With my first I fed then swaddled and then with my second I was more efficent and kept her swaddled to feed.
My baby is 11 weeks old. Have I missed my window of opportunity to get her to sleep in her co-sleeper?
It can be harder to change habits by this age but stil worth a try! Work on it in the mornings when sleep is the easiest. If all else fails you can work on sleep again more after 4 months when she has more hand control.
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So when i feed my baby after that it is recommended by the peditrician to hold him upright for 20 mins,also while feeding my baby with bottle he would fall sleep while having the bottle so like u said they would wanna sleep where they fall asleep,so in this case how do we make the fall asleep in the bassinet?he is 7 weeks old and I cannot just feed him in the bassinet ,regardless i have to take him in my arms to make him burp.
We would love to give you more help with this but it's more than a quick tip - we teach all of this inside of our Helping Newborns Sleep class. www.helpingbabiessleepschool.com.
I thought you couldn’t spoil a baby with being held
Too bad this isn’t helpful. My baby will not sleep in the bassinet he just screams and screams for 45 mins 🤦🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
I'm so sorry to hear you're struggling and that my video wasn't helpful to you. Sleep is definitely a journey. Often with newborns, (not sure your baby's age) they can be uncomfortable and/or it's a habit for older babies. Here's a blog post that might help you.www.helpingbabiessleep.com/blog/newborn-wont-sleep-unless-being-held I have a number of other references so you can be empowered and figure out why standard approaches aren't working for your baby.
@@sarahmitchell9924 he is 6 weeks and 4 days old
@@AashaMarieArtist So many kiddos at this age don't sleep in the bassinet because they are uncomfortable. You might benefit from reading this blog post www.helpingbabiessleep.com/blog/newborn-wont-sleep-unless-being-held and you're also welcome to come join my private FB group. facebook.com/groups/helpingbabiessleep where I teach live weekly.
@@AashaMarieArtist my baby is 1month old and is still refusing his bassinet he only wants to sleep on my chest any suggestions?? I want him safe
our 2 weeks baby cant sleep on flat position , we need to put her on pillow
This can be common with babies with reflux.
So my baby uses my boob as comfort. We will bottle feed her and she will eat and eat and eat till she gets the boob. Or she will continue to cry till she gets the boob. Her awake windows are her just being hungry and begging for the boob . Anyway I can help with this? She has reflux that we are trying to solve but she spits out her medicine everytime
You are amazing but for a person who speaks English as a secondary language you are very hard to follow . Thank you for sharing
get to the point. you dont need to preface the stuff that people are interested with as to why they need to sleep in a bassinet.