@leungzero Ugh I’m sorry. This was me for weeks on end. I would google “baby won’t sleep in bassinet” for hours. I know it’s not a quick fix, but the only thing that helped was just practicing putting her down over and over again. My daughter was 6 weeks early and was in the NICU for 22 days. When she came home she was great at sleeping independently because that’s how it was in the NICU. And I promptly fucked that up by holding her all of the time, until she basically was crying anytime I wasn’t holding her, awake or asleep. Letting her sleep in my arms just made it worse, I really had to practice putting her down. Now I will
let her take her last nap of the day in my arms, but besides that
sleep=bassinet in my house. She still needs to be held to fall sleep, but I always put her down once she’s sound asleep and I make sure everyone else does the same thing. It takes a lot of patience because sometimes I have to pick her up and rock her to back to sleep over and over again. But the practice works. It’s horrible to not sleep, but to me it’s not worth risking my baby’s life with unsafe sleep practices. Other things that have helped: white noise machine that stays on, using a heating pad to warm up her bed before transferring her, a swaddle that she likes (I use the big flannel ones from the Moms on Call website- anxious that we have to soon stop swaddling). 8 weeks is a really hard time, I know it’s not helpful now but it WILL get easier.
Edited to add: the first nap of the day is the easiest to put them down for. Start by always putting him in her own bed for the first nap of the day. And then I get a little more flexible as the day goes on.