I always planned to have my child sleep in our room for several months, always in their own space and not in our bed. My son is now 5 weeks old and once we get a new camera for his nursery I think I may need to start transitioning him. Even when he sleeps long stretches (4-6 hours) I sleep like complete crap since at any sound or fuss I’m up, fixing him or his pacifier. Which I know is going to create a bad habit and honestly I’m possibly even accidentally waking him up sometimes since babies are naturally loud sleepers.

Also, his dad does NOT wake up to him even when he’s crying. So I get super annoyed and kind of resentful when I’m exhausted and feeding him in the chair or fixing him and my boyfriend. Has. Not. Moved. Like hasn’t even stirred! Typically the only time he gets up is if I wake him up to help (which he gladly does help) but I’m annoyed that i have to ask for the help.

I’ve started having the baby take naps in his crib to get used to it and while I do have to fix him sometimes, I told myself to give him 2 minutes after he starts crying to try and see if he’ll calm himself and he does sometimes. So I know at night if i just left him to self soothe, or just to make noise that he’d go back to sleep sometimes. But I have a hard time doing that since I’m SO tired and just want him quite and sleeping again as bad as that sounds..

While I still have a few weeks until I go back to work, I definitely know I can’t be getting sleep like this when I do go back. So if anyone has advice I’d appreciate it 😫