Do babies who can be put down to sleep and not cry..

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really exist? 
My second daughter is the same as my first in that she will not let me put her down to nap. I’m sure some of it has to do with habits I’ve already created but she was like this from the beginning. My husband and I have held her for almost all her naps but now his paternity leave is over and he’s going back to work and today he was gone for a little while and it took me an hour to get the baby to sleep and I tried to put her down in multiple ways to get back to my 3 year old and the baby would just cry. She’s barely getting enough sleep and my 3 year old is by herself more than I like. I have a k’tan but I don’t love it and it’s really hot wearing her 
Any suggestions?
Also she’s EBF and won’t take a pacifier
She’s 8 weeks old and hates her swing. She always gets hiccups soon after putting her in it

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Both my kids have been like this. I baby wear part of the day my oldest is 5 so it allows me to do things with him. I've been working on getting 1/2 hour stretches throughout the day. My first did eventually nap in his crib and you wouldn't know he was so needy as baby he is super independent now.

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I second the swing .. with my 2nd daughter she lovedddd the swing she would prefer to be in there all the time so this pregnancy that was the first thing I bought for my son .. he is the same he will fall asleep in my arms or on me and if I put him down or try to get away he wakes up every time... so what I will do now is feed him, burp him , and then put him in the swing and he  sometimes go to sleep right away or he will fuss a little but then start falling asleep and sometimes the naps are so long I have to get him out and wake him to eat and stuff :)

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My baby will sleep in his crib at night but not for naps. He wants to be held during the day. My older son was the same way. 
Do you have a bouncy chair? My older son hated the swing but we would put him in the bouncy chair and bounce it with our hands or feet and he would pass out. If he wakes up, just bounce him back to sleep. Also, regarding the baby ktan, I ordered a few different wraps so I could pick a favorite and noticed the ktan is a lot thicker material than some others. You could research best baby wraps for summer, I think the ktan is too warm. I ended up with the ergo baby wrap, I think it’s called aura or aurora? The material is much lighter.

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For me it was a process now at 7weeks I can put him down and he’ll go to sleep. I would put him down and walk somewhere he couldn’t see me so he could get used to sleeping on his own and as soon as he starts to go to sleep I put him down so get get comfortable in the bassinet insead of my chest. Once I started doing that he started to fall asleep on his own and sleep longer.

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My son never did, but my daughter will go down awake and get herself to sleep without crying.

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My son is just over 6 weeks and will now go into his basket awake and put himself to sleep without crying, we first tried it at night, after a feed we would just rocket his crib but stay out of his sight so he couldn't see us. He got used to "putting himself to sleep" after his feed and this continued and he will sometimes do it during the day too.
If my son does wake up I will gentle sshh him and rock his basket and he will fall asleep again, obviously if he screams he will picked up and cuddled.
I hope it gets better for you, my partner is going back to work soon (we are in the UK and he has been off work due to Covid) so I will have to adjust to doing things myself

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Mine does pretty well when we put him down for naps. He likes to sleep in his swing. Do you have one? How old is LO?

Do babies who can be put down to sleep and not cry..

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