Struggling with newborn sleep
I’ll start this by saying I never thought I would cosleep. We never did with our first (now 3yo) because he slept fine on his own and it seemed unsafe. However, our seven week old is NOT into his bassinet and we have been struggling since we brought him home from the hospital. My husband and I have been taking shifts and having very inconsistent success with getting him to sleep anywhere other than on us. He will sometimes stay down in his bassinet, but usually not for long. I have finally given into the idea of cosleeping with him and have done lots of reading on doing it safely, but my experiences thus far have been oddly disappointing. I assumed it would be a magic bullet, but it hasn’t been. I’ve been doing the cuddle curl position and breastfeeding, but he… doesn’t really fall asleep this way?! He’ll just keep nursing into eternity basically. Sometimes he will doze off and then wake himself up a few minutes later. I am pretty exasperated at this point as it seems like really he just wants to sleep cuddled up on us, but I don’t know if there’s really a safe way to do that that allows us to sleep. I know chest sleeping is a thing, but is it really safe? Has anyone else had a baby who the cuddle curl didn’t work for? We are just desperate for some sleep.