I’ve ALWAYS been against bedsharing. I’ve worked in child welfare for years and I’ve seen real tragedy from it. When we brought my newborn home, she took to the bassinet quite well at first. She would wake every 1.5 hours to eat, but would go back down in her bassinet. Now she is completely refusing it. Each night I spend 3-4 hours trying to get her to sleep in it. The past two nights I have given up, and I have held her in my arms in bed and slept. She sleeps for 4 hours straight when we do this! 🤦‍♀️

I am sleep deprived and have a toddler to care for as well.

I am also against pacifiers, but maybe that’s the lesser of the two evils here? Could I break her of that habit when we sleep train at 5 months? I know pacifiers do have some benefits.

I am desperate for anything to help my baby sleep, especially in her bassinet. I don’t care if she wakes frequently, but I do need her to sleep some amount of time. 😩