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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After 6 weeks, your baby should start to sleep through the night. The only thing sleeping in the baby's room is going to do is wake the baby up. Get a sleep monitor and sleep peacefully in your room. It is common for the baby to wake up a bit at night and chat to his or herself - only rush in if the baby does not seem to be able to self soothe after 5 or 10 minutes.

***Time to you will seem to go very slowly. The baby will not feel abandoned if you let him or her try to self soothe for 10 minutes.

Make sure it is seriously dark in the baby's room - black out curtains are a must because babies are very tuned in to small changes in light and you don't want to be waking up at 5am every day this summer.

This advice will save you years of sleep problems. (Mom of 5 here - ask me how I know!)[/quote]

LOL! Almost zero babies sleep through the night by 6 weeks. Wake ups aside, they should still be eating at night at that age! Please, OP, and everyone else ignore this nuts advice setting parents up for disappointment.[/quote]

Seriously this is absolutely nuts advice. Op your plan sounds like a good one with the caveat that it is impossible to know what will end up working best for you. During our hardest sleep times shifts worked for us but it worked for us to still have bassinet in main room and husband took first half and just stayed up with baby downstairs then I took second half. Lots of scenarios and will depend on so many things after delivery. So I love your idea and just go in flexible that you may have preferences you don’t expect!

And yes you don’t have to follow aap to  a t, most people don’t room share as long as they recommend but in those early weeks the data is pretty solid and it typically is better for mom and baby generally [/quote]

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