What is sleep?!

Question

How does everyone get their babies back to sleep at night?!?
My son is 8 weeks old and sleeps from 9:30-12 in his bassinet and then wakes up. At that time, he doesn’t even nurse but goes back to sleep as soon as he is held and then sleeps until 2:30 as long as I continue to hold him. 
If I try to set him down, even once I think he’s sound asleep, he’s screaming in minutes. How does everyone get their baby back to sleep?

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white noise is a must for us.  If its to quiet in the house she wakes up.  I also use a rule I got from Ceaser Milan... the dog guy lol but it works.  I don't talk or make eye contact when she wakes for her 2am feed.  Just change her, feed her and back in the bassinet.  No look, no tough, no eye contact 😂.  Works for me.

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Swaddle 
Rock
White noise 
Set her down in the bassinet 
If she fusses (not cries), leave her 
If she cries, pick up and tick again 
If baby takes a pacifier that helps; mine doesn’t

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The combination of a heartbeat noise on a white noise machine and placing something that smells like me (a shirt that has been worn) near baby but out of reach has been helpful for me and my baby girl, but hasn’t completely eliminated this behavior. This was the suggestion from my OB, it is supposed to help her feel more comfortable. When she’s being held, she’s comforted by the sound of Mom’s heart beating and Mom’s smell, so this is an attempt to reproduce that. :) My little one is still waking every 2-3 hours but I’m able to get her to sleep in the crib when she is sleeping between 10pm-5am, and usually 1 daytime nap. She still wakes when I place her in the crib during most of the daylight hours, but I’m thankful she’s at least staying in there for the most part at night! Wishing you luck, the sleep stuff is hard!

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Try the Baby Merlin sleep suit. Completely changed night time sleep for us. Sometimes it still takes a long time for us to get him back down but that's usually because he needs to eat more.

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Does he sleep in a bassinet or a crib? My girl is 7 weeks and she usually gets a good first stretch from 9-12 or 1, I feed her and she usually goes back to sleep but after that the stretches are 1-2 hours only. I would love to get her back to sleep for longer but she always wakes up. She's not a huge crier, she mostly starts squeaking and grunting until I wake up.  If I don't get her she will cry eventually.
One thing that does help me is sometimes giving her a bottle of breast milk when I'm putting get back down. She drinks faster and it eventually gets her more tired. But I think in the end newborns are hard and just know we aren't too far away from them having some sense of circadian rhythm!

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Are you swaddling him?

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