I have a one-week-old who loves contact naps, and I’m having a hard time putting her in the bassinet to sleep. Right now, the only way my husband and I are getting sleep is by switching off, and he’s going back to work soon, so I’m really nervous about how that’s going to work.
We have the Love to Dream swaddle, which she does seem to like since her hands are up, but I’m struggling with when to put her in it. When we first got home, she did sleep in the bassinet for a few hours at a time the first couple nights, but recently we can’t get her to sleep in there at all.
Part of what I’m struggling with is timing the swaddle. She doesn’t like being in it to feed or even to be bounced to sleep, so I’ve tried putting her down really tired and then swaddling her once she’s in the basinet, but that isn’t working.
Any advice on timing the swaddle or how you got a good transfer to the bassinet?