https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:28:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883782 Thu, 09 May 2019 07:07:24 +0000 Mrsbells 2883782@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: This sounds like most newborns, have you tried the woombie swaddle? This combined with a pacifier really helped improve my children's newborn sleep </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883748 Wed, 08 May 2019 16:29:21 +0000 pachamama 2883748@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: EXACTLY. I mean, you can do anything temporarily,.... but I was thinking of a few friends who have kids who DO NOT SLEEP and it really stressed me out. They're so affected by it and it scared me! DS2 is sleeping really well these days, its like a switch went off. Shhh I don't want to jinx it! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883129 Fri, 03 May 2019 10:15:47 +0000 periwinklebee 2883129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was like this. We tried multiple bassinets and he would not sleep, not even a minute, in any of them. The only way I could get any sleep at all was to cosleep with him. DH slept on the couch. It will definitely get better :heart: :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883128 Fri, 03 May 2019 10:13:10 +0000 MrsSCB 2883128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LCTBQE: thank you!! And not gonna lie, at this point I’m starting to look forward to when we can sleep train 😳 but I don’t want to be wishing the days away. I’ve been pumping a little here and there, but we haven’t tried a bottle yet. I think that will be next. Though she seems to really struggle with gas at night, and I’m worried a bottle will make it worse? Hopefully not if we pace feed and all that. I’m also super bitter that my husband is working again so it’s just me all day. With F he happened to be between jobs so was home eight weeks. But we all know actual parental leave sucks here... How did you figure out the silent reflux? What were the symptoms? She spends a lot of the night grunting and whining and fussing, but I’ve been assuming gas.</p> <p>@Grace: hmmm, you’re making me think maybe we should give the pack and play a shot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883021 Thu, 02 May 2019 20:12:24 +0000 Grace 2883021@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I thought I’d try a bassinet for my second (first slept in a playpen). Wouldn’t sleep in it. Would wake the second I put him in. My sister suggested trying the playpen with him and he slept for hours. Go figure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883009 Thu, 02 May 2019 18:40:32 +0000 ShootingStar 2883009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: I think it’s all up to the baby. We had two completely different sleepers. DS was awful for 7.5 months until I couldn’t take it any more and sleep trained him. We co-slept for the first 6 months so that I could function. </p> <p>DD was for the most part a miracle sleeper. Especially at first. She ate almost constantly and then at night she slept pretty good. She did have a four month recession but she pretty much always slept in her own. She’s still a great sleeper at 2.9. </p> <p>I didn’t do anything different with DD to make her a better sleeper. There was no magic swaddle or sleep contraption, it wasn’t a skill that I miraculously acquired. She was just a different baby. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2883004 Thu, 02 May 2019 18:22:13 +0000 LCTBQE 2883004@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSCB: did I say congratulations to you yet?!! So glad the girly got here safely, yayyyyyyy and good work mama! </p> <p>But ugh, sorry to hear you didn’t get a sleeper. Both of mine slept intermittently badly or terribly basically from 2 weeks until sleep training at 4/5 months. It sucks, it’s so miserable to be so thoroughly exhausted with no end in sight and then mat leave is over. The only respite I got at all was from the now-shit-listed Rnp :meh: I know you’re not looking for it, but the only advice I have (sorry if you’re already doing this) is to try and get her on a bottle so daddy can do a nice big feeding and you can get like 4-5 hours of sleep in one block. I know that probably sounds impossible but you guys will get there :heart: also wanted ask—could there be any chance she has silent reflux? I figured out our girl did (actually from talking to my moral and spiritual guide @sweetiepie) and once we got her on Pepcid at her two month appointment she literally went from napping for like 10-20 minutes to taking a THREE HOUR nap that very afternoon. I could not believe it. Didn’t resolve all of her sleep issues by any means but it made it so I wasn’t spending 12 hours walking her in circles soothing her 7 days a week. Just throwing it out there for consideration. Mostly wanted to say hang in there and you’re not alone and it WILL get better. Keep your chin up :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882967 Thu, 02 May 2019 14:22:08 +0000 MrsSCB 2882967@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you, it really does help to know I’m not alone. I’m in a group with moms of babies a similar age, and sometimes it feels like they’re all sleeping better than mine. People are like, “I’m so tired, baby woke up every two hours!” and I’m thinking, do you know what I’d do to even have her sleep in the bassinet for two hour increments?! *sigh*</p> <p>@pachamama: it’s good to hear things are getting better for you. Honestly, as a type A planner, the hardest part (other than exhaustion) is not having an end point. Like if I knew for sure it would get better at a specific week it would be so much easier to just power through 😅</p> <p>@Silva: seriously, after nine months in the womb, they’re supposed to just go to sleep on a safe hard, flat surface?? Sure. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882963 Thu, 02 May 2019 14:05:55 +0000 pachamama 2882963@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: I have to agree that it's almost impossible for newborns to sleep safely on their own. So unbelievably frustrating. luckily for most people it really does get better. At 15 weeks here we are starting to finally turn a corner. I think! My first slept really well after 8 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882958 Thu, 02 May 2019 13:29:56 +0000 ALV91711 2882958@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Commiseration, no sleep is tough!</p> <p>For DS2 we had the crib in our room for the first 5.5 months. For the first about 6 weeks I made a kind of nest by rolling up blankets and putting them under a snug sheet. This made the perfect little space for him that he seemed to like for a couple hours at a time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882945 Thu, 02 May 2019 12:51:08 +0000 Silva 2882945@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have never been able to get a newborn to sleep safely. I have 3 kids. None of them would sleep on their back. Didn't matter how tight the swaddle was. They wouldn't take pacifiers. I tried at least 5 different kinds with each kid. Its an incredibly frustrating point for me- I know I must be doing something wrong, but I legitimately cannot figure it out. My husband is a pediatrician and neither can he. He meets babies all day long who will sleep (for varying amounts of time) in a bassinet or crib but ours never would.</p> <p>I ended up bed sharing. If you aren't drinking, taking medications, or smoking, and are breastfeeding, and follow the safe bed sharing rules, the risk is about the same as driving the baby in the car. My husband slept on the couch. Obviously this is a personal decision, but I just wanted to let you know you aren't alone, and it is really hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882942 Thu, 02 May 2019 12:46:10 +0000 Petitduck 2882942@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Commiseration over here! I had basically no issues with my first and was barely tired-yay! I have never had a bassinet, just the crib beside my bed for the first 6 months. </p> <p>I paid for it night after night with my second and was a walking zombie because my kid would pretty much only sleep longer than an hour or so at night while being held. Not fed or anything. Just on or beside me. It DID get better. I always did all the right stuff. I think anyway. But it didn’t get better for me until 5 months in. I hope it doesn’t take that long for you. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882938 Thu, 02 May 2019 12:33:16 +0000 pachamama 2882938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've been there. Both my sons slept like crap in the bassinet. Everything doctors and "sleep experts" tell you to do are so unnatural and set up moms for failure- alone, on their BACK without a blanket?! C'mon. Babies so often need their parents close. Can you blame them? It will get better. Sometimes it just takes weeks 😩<br /> Honestly we just suffered through it- I was EBF but we started the bottle at 2 weeks. My husband would do the hellish 8-1am shift then I'd do 1-7am.<br /> Try to roll up a towel to create a cocoon sort of in the bassinet.<br /> Make sure she's napping as much as possible during the day<br /> Make sure she's TANKED UP with milk.<br /> Perhaps she will sleep better in a crib away from you. I resisted this but then I was losing my f*cking mind, and moved him to the crib where things improved- it let me get truly uninterrupted sleep for a few hours.<br /> CRANK that white noise- Taking Cara Babies (Instagram) says as loud a a shower which is loud! This helped us.<br /> Consider Taking Cara Babies newborn course. It's been way better since adhering to her sleep program with my sleepless wonder 🙌<br /> 5 weeks is young. I see lots of babies sleep way better after 8 weeks and across the board 12 weeks seems to be much much better.<br /> Solidarity!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882928 Thu, 02 May 2019 11:41:43 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2882928@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My son was like this and after spending a pretty penny on his BabyHome bassinet I was so disappointed. Looking back at old pictures I am shocked to see him in it because I remember the early days at 24/7 babe in arms lol. We also got a Halo last minute because I had a cesarean and that got zero usage. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882915 Thu, 02 May 2019 09:41:59 +0000 paigeface 2882915@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh mama, I feel for you! My son was similar to this and it's giving me flashbacks just reading about it. We too used the Rock-N-Play with him as he refused to sleep in the Halo Bassinet (I am crossing all my fingers and toes that my baby due in 10 days sleeps in the Halo Bassinet because it's all we have now!) I don't really have any advice but I wanted to say that we went through a similar situation and I never thought it would get better. Unfortunately, it was due to acid reflex with our son laying flat and the Rock-N-Play helped tremendously for us to get rest but since that's not an option anymore I am not sure especially since swaddling isn't helping! Hugs to you! :heart: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/baby-wont-sleep-in-bassinet#post-2882911 Thu, 02 May 2019 09:17:49 +0000 MrsSCB 2882911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Title pretty much says it—my almost five week old will NOT sleep in the bassinet. She only wants to be held, and mainly by me. She will only tolerate someone else holding her briefly before crying. She also wants to nurse constantly still. She’s gaining weight well and looks great, according to the pedi. So I guess this is a phase. </p> <p>Not so much looking for advice, because I’ve tried literally everything—different swaddles, no swaddle, waiting 20-plus minutes after she falls asleep to transfer, pacifier, warming up the bassinet, etc. etc. At this point I can finally get maybe an hour of her in there at the beginning of the night, but that’s it. </p> <p>ANYWAY, commiseration is appreciated, and/or reassurance that it will get better. We went through this briefly with my son, but by this point he was sleeping way better...in the Rock and Play. I’m not doing that again. I will sleep again someday, right? Because I’m getting about three broken hours a day and I’m so tired 😫 </p>