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Edit: Ive realized having her in the same room is a non negotiable for me. It reduces SIDS risk and I'm not willing to lose that protective factor. So the question is... Should I move the pack n play into ​my room? The crib is too big to fit without disassembling it. Seme like it'll be tricky to transfer her in there to sleep with it being so low to the ground but I need to find a way to keep her in my room. Has anyone done this? Did your baby sleep as well as in the bassinet?

My baby girl is 11 weeks old and sleeps in her bassinet in my bedroom. The Newton Essential bassinet. She can roll onto her side. Not to her back and not to her tummy. Just to her side. Since discovering she can do this it's become her favorite sleeping position. I put her to sleep on her back and she rolls to her side. She's started sleeping longer stretches because she wakes up she puts ​herself back to sleep by rolling to her side.

However she ​'s moving all over the bassinet. While she's sleeping she falls back to her back, wakes up and goes back to her side again and again. She's inadvertently scooting all over. She ends up sideways frequently. She ends up with her head and feet on opposite sides of where I put her to sleep. Tonight I woke up and face was pressed against the side of the bassinet. Thank goodness I woke up because I usually sleep until she wakes me. This was very scary and of course I moved her right away.

The manual says to stop using the bassinet once she can roll over. Is that now?? She can only roll to her side, not to back or tummy. But this was a scary situation to find her in. She's only 11 weeks old, I wanted her in the bassinet in my room for 6 months as reccomended. But I need to do what is safest. Is it time for the crib? The crib has wooden slats, what if she ends up pressed against a wooden slat?

I'm a nervous first time mom, any advice would be great.

What the title says. I have a 2 month old baby girl. Gave birth vaginally after what was very nearly a failed induction. Epidural numbed only the waist down, I felt all my contractions. It was insane. And pushing?!? Are you kidding me?!? Somehow I only considered labor and never what pushing would be like.

Ladies. We are POWERFUL. I am absolutely convinced that all the criticism and judgement of women's bodies throughout human history is because men are too afraid to acknowledge how powerful we are. We give birth. We create life. And it's a CRAZY and a exhausting process. And I don't think men, who are "​supposed" ​to be bigger and stronger know how to handle this reality. Not all men obviously. My husband is in awe of me. But I'm talking societally and historically.

This has don't wonders for my body confidence. How can I be insecure about a body that can give birth? I can't. I feel like the world needs to hear this. I knew childbirth would be hard but I didn't know it would be that hard, and so primal I guess? Like modern medicine has come a long way but childbirth is fundamentally what it is. And only we can do it. We're amazing.

Hi all, I have a wonderful 9 week old baby girl. She has a wonderful temperament, easy going, easy to soothe, just the light of my life. But sleep has been a bit of a nightmare. Getting her to sleep in the bassinet at night was a huge ordeal but we more or less did it. She will have several nights in a row of let's say a 4 hour sleep stretch at night followed by 2 or 3 hour stretches. Then some nights like last night she fights sleep and wake constantly throughout the night. We think that is linked to her being over tired, we aren't sure... I'm good nights have even started to put herself to sleep once I pop the binky in her mouth. Not all the time but sometimes. So great progress but inconsistent.

But here is my question: Daytime naps. Is it possible to have her start to nap in the bassinet at this time if we're still working out night time kinks? Right now she takes exclusively contact naps during the day. We follow wake windows and sleepy cues and rock her to sleep (some days this is easy, others she resists and it takes a long time), then she sleep on us. Naps on us can be 2 hours a couple times a day, with some shorter naps as well. Probably 4 or 5 naps a day. Again that's following her cues.

I would love to start with one bassinet nap a day and I do try this, usually the first nap of the day. Sometimes it doesn't work at all, sometimes I get 20-30 minutes which I'm very happy with to start.

Any tips? Or do I just keep doing what I've been doing?