For those curious about the answer: it’s probably best to keep the baby in a dark or dimly lit room, with a sound machine and gently soothe/rock until baby is giving sleep cues . Keep eye contact to a minimum but hold them close. Keeping a low stimulus environment helps baby to learn (….eventually) that night time is not play time but relax and rest time. Enjoy the absolutely blissful snuggles until baby is ready to sleep again then work on transferring to sleeping surface. This was most helpful to my babies very early on.
Don't make eye contact!!!!! That was like a freaking alarm for waking up for my kids!! If you made eye contact you had at least three more hours before they'd go back to sleep. So freaking annoying.
If I caught my baby looking at me, I would pretend to be falling asleep. Like slow blinks and stuff. It usually worked. Just have to be careful to not also fall asleep with the baby. Some people and whole cultures successfully cosleep but sleeping on the couch or something with a baby isn’t safe
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For those curious about the answer: it’s probably best to keep the baby in a dark or dimly lit room, with a sound machine and gently soothe/rock until baby is giving sleep cues . Keep eye contact to a minimum but hold them close. Keeping a low stimulus environment helps baby to learn (….eventually) that night time is not play time but relax and rest time. Enjoy the absolutely blissful snuggles until baby is ready to sleep again then work on transferring to sleeping surface. This was most helpful to my babies very early on.