Bedtime routine?

Question

Has anyone found a bedtime routine that works for their LO yet? I’m desperate to find a way to get my son to sleep in his bassinet at night without a 4 hour battle for him to sleep on his own. 
It’s a constant cycle snuggle to drowsy state, transfer to bassinet, he sleeps for 5-10 minutes and rinse, repeat. 
Hellllllpppppppp!😩 I’m so tired! I’m willing to try anything that would be considered safe and doesn’t need doctor approval beforehand.

Answer

After my son’s last nap of the night we get a bath, PJ’s, eat and storytime, and then I rock him to white noise until he is fully asleep.
I know the whole “put them to bed drowsy but awake” thing is big but if I did that I would NEVER SLEEP. My son will sleep for 3-4 hours in his bassinet if I put him down fully asleep. 
My pediatrician taught us to do the “arm drop” test. Once your baby is asleep in your arms, lift up one of their arms and drop it. If their arm flops down, they’re ready to be transferred. If it’s tense or they cringe when you do it, it’s not time yet. 
We transfer him in on top of a swaddle and swaddle him in and he will stay for hours. His first stretch of sleep is always the longest then he averages about 2 hours after that.

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I gave up on that with all my kids. My bassinet ended up being a laundry basket for babies clean clothes haha. But that’s us, only way I could sleep. And we sleep amazing. Try a doc a tot? Maybe baby just wants to be closer to you.

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He is 3 weeks. He does his tummy time, We take him a warm bath, put his pjs on, feed him, burp him, and we make sure tv is off and his white noise is on during his feed, lights are than turned off (we have a night light though) than rock him for about 10 min and we lay him down (our bassinet can be rocked as well) works for our baby. We have been doing this every night since we got home from the hospital though. He’s used to it now. Took a little while and we still struggle some night and have to rock him longer. I also make sure his nap before night time isn’t to close.

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I keep my daughter awake for at least an hour or 2 before 10:30pm, and by 10:30pm, she is grumpy and ready for bed. She sleeps until 6:30-7am. She falls asleep as soon as she is swaddled and fed. Some parents are lucky and others arent so lucky.. my first 2 babies were up all night and very colicky, but my third baby right now is every parents dream.

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Bath, then pjs, then feeding, then swaddle, then feeding, then rocking. I break up the feeding because I find that nursing my son calms him, so I feed him a little in his swaddle. I’ve found that the swaddle is key! We use the Ollie and it’s helped a lot. Also use a sound machine!
Look up the happiest baby on the block. Also follow takingcarababies on Instagram - she has great tips! I took her online course and it was really good.

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Heating pad! And vibrating soothing pad. 
I put a heating pad in the bassinet before I put him down. It is warm and cozy by time I get him to bed. 
He also isn't a swaddler. I use a blanket, just like I had with my older children.

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Consistency is key mama, do a bath(I do one every other night and I just do massage and transferring to pjs on nonbath nights) lotion swaddle feed rock lay down. Even if you have to repeat it a billion times, do it every single night. I always start her bed time routine between 7-8pm and we always wake up at 9am.

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It takes over an hour to get mine to bed at night. He fights it. He will start to doze off then wake up to make sure I'm still there. It's exhausting. Good luck.

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Every night I put my 6 week down in his bassinet within the same hour! Between 7-8pm. I feed him first and change his diaper/clothes or he has bath time too. Then I turn all the lights off.. He definitely knows when it’s time for bed. Still wakes up like 3 times during the night to eat and go back to sleep but I’ll take what I can get haha.

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This is literally my life lol

Bedtime routine?

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