How did your newborn sleep best?

[Bernadine]

Ours sleeps best on us, of course. I end up falling asleep in the mornings with her on my chest, but it makes me so nervous. We generally swaddle and use the rnp, but she doesn't sleep more than 2 hours that way.

[countthestars]

During the day while I was driving. Both of them, the little shits.

[Elsa]

Last night mine slept awesome in the swing. Not the fancy mamaroo, but the tried and true FP snugabunny. Other than that she also sleeps great in the car

[starburst]

During the day he wanted to be held.

At night he slept in the swing. After a while it didn't even need to be swinging.

[Deleted]

During the day her naps were hit or miss early on (until 3 months and magic daycare). Best bets were the RNP and swing. At night she slept flat on her back and swaddled in our room with white noise and was STTN (6-8 hour stretches) around 8 weeks?

[bowies]

In my arms. I watched a lot of Netflix. Around 8w he became a champ at sleeping in his bucket seat in the stroller. I went shopping a lot.

He always liked the incline most of all for real sleeping so he did best in the RNP. Two hours sounds about right for a really new newborn. DS didn't do 4+ hour stretches for a few months.

[Deleted]

On us until we started putting him down on his belly around 9 weeks

[thebreakfastclub]

The only real fail was the swing.

Otherwise he slept swaddled in the crib or in the carseat if we were out.

[pooh8402]

During the day, on me or in his car seat, attached to his stroller. Overnight, in the newborn napper thingy on top of his PNP.

[genet313]

On us, of course.  Face down, not safe, SIDS risk, on us.   She had some good runs in the car as well, but that ended pretty quickly.

Otherwise, at night she did OK swaddled in the Vista bassinet, but she'd usually roll around making these weird choking noises by about 4-5 AM, so I often brought her in bed with me.  

[Blue Moon]

In my arms, preferably with my boob in her mouth.

[ebeth]

She would sleep at night swaddles in the RNP. During the day it was holding her or carrier

[Blue Moon]

Also, when DD was really new and only doing 2 hour or less stretches, I would lay back in the glider and nurse her with my Boppy. If I dozed off, I felt more secure that the Boppy would prevent DD from falling. It wasn't ideal but in the grand scheme of things, it was survival.

[osulori]

For naps, on us. At night, RnP and then the crib.

[Bernadine]

We have a bassinet insert for the pack and play, but she seems to prefer the rnp. She likes being awake in the swing, but won't sleep, whether it's swinging or not.

And yeah, she sleeps in the car and stroller.

[winemaker06]

Swaddled in crib at night. Random places during the day. I tried swaddling mid-morning so I could take a shower and she actually slept a little longer! Sleeping on us definitely puts her in a nice, deep sleep faster though.

[meltoine]

In bed next to me.

Or on their bellies in the crib.

I am clearly not a rule follower in this regard.

[closertofine]

Dd, swaddled tightly, in her crib, for naps and bed, from day one. **unicorn baby**

Ds, car seat bucket for all naps until probably 7 months old. Would start the night in the crib, but end up lying on one of us in the recliner until sttn in crib at 4 months.

[Bernadine]

I seriously wish I could just bring her to bed with is all night.

[soozy87]

Swadled in the fast moving vibrating swing

[pandora]

Best when in my arms/on me...or when I'm not sleeping (and need to) and driving (him in car seat) or pushing him in the stroller. This is when he sleeps deep but he's been a 1 hour interval mostly. He did sleep 3 hours one time and I panicked thinking he was dead when I woke and realized it had been that long. But, I put him down swaddled and in his bassinet or cosleeper.

[linz]

Mine always took the longest naps on me. But otherwise in rnp swaddled with white noise.

[sillygoosegirl]

During the day, basically.

In hindsight, I think this may have had a lot to do with how we put her to sleep during the day vs night, but it became a bit of a vicious cycle. During the day she would sleep in a carrier (fall asleep and stay there), in the swing (fall asleep and stay there), or in the crib (she'd cry herself to sleep in the time it took me to pee and run back, and then stay there asleep like 3 hours). At night we only nursed or rocked her to sleep, then transferred her. At first we put her in the arms reach, but around 6 weeks gave up on that because we'd wake after about 20 minutes, and started bedsharing.

[mskitkat]

Jul 13, 2016 20:46:41 GMT -5 Blue Moon said:

Also, when DD was really new and only doing 2 hour or less stretches, I would lay back in the glider and nurse her with my Boppy. If I dozed off, I felt more secure that the Boppy would prevent DD from falling. It wasn't ideal but in the grand scheme of things, it was survival.

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[brandienee]

DS Napped in the R&P or the Mamaroo, (or in my car, I was driving a lot at that time)

He started STTN around 1.5 months. Maybe waking up at 1:30 for a feeding. We also swaddled and had a white noise machine.

Oh, and we put him in his room at 1 month, before that he slept in the pack and play in our room.

[kategm]

Sleep sack in a swing.

[Susie]

Jul 13, 2016 20:31:06 GMT -5 Bernadine said:

We generally swaddle and use the rnp, but she doesn't sleep more than 2 hours that way.

That's about as good as it got in the newborn phase. She napped in her swing or swaddled in her crib mostly, but not more than 2 or so hours at a time.

[namasteak]

Swaddle + swing

[redpenmama]

Both were best on my chest, but that obviously doesn't work all the time.

DD was second best in the swing, but only for naps.

DS did well in the RnP.

[luv2rn4fun]

C did ok in the RNP at night until 11.5 weeks (by ok I mean 2-3, rarely 4, he stretches the first 6 weeks and then was down to 1-2 wake ups for a few weeks). Always swaddled and white noise.

Naps could be done in the RNP but we only had a handful of decent (1+ hrs) naps that way. He has never been a car napper and hated the swing. The only thing that reliably worked for naps was wearing him in the baby carrier while walking outside. No joke, if I came home or stopped he would wake up. There were many days where I walked 3 hrs/ day just to get him to nap...sucked but it also helped lose the baby weight fast (but also added to my exhausted sleeper deprivation state).

((Hugs)) it does get better eventually.