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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!

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
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.
Try to roll up a towel to create a cocoon sort of in the bassinet.
Make sure she's napping as much as possible during the day
Make sure she's TANKED UP with milk.
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.
CRANK that white noise- Taking Cara Babies (Instagram) says as loud a a shower which is loud! This helped us.
Consider Taking Cara Babies newborn course. It's been way better since adhering to her sleep program with my sleepless wonder
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.
Solidarity!!

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.

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.

@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.

@MrsSCB: did I say congratulations to you yet?!! So glad the girly got here safely, yayyyyyyy and good work mama!

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 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 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

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.

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

@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