Cradling Bouncer

3 day old won’t sleep in cradle.?

My 3 day old will only sleep if you are holding her….I have gotten her to sleep in her bouncer in 30 min intervals but then she wakes up and wants to be held…Is this normal??
if I put her in the cradle after she is asleep she wakes up….
is it ok to let her cry to see if she wiill cry herself back to sleep

I think there’s been some good info passed to you…until I saw that post suggesting you 1)not pick up your baby every time she cries and 2) they learn to entertain themselves quickly 3)helps exercise their lungs! Oh MyGosh! It does not! One of those old myths. As baby gets older (several months older) she can start to learn that it may take you a few seconds or minutes to get to her when she whimpers or cries, and she may well attend to herself before you get there. But at 3 days old, when she cries it’s for a reason, and you need to go to her. If you do not, you are teaching her not to trust that you will meet her needs and that she is incapable of getting help. Crying is very bad for infants because it decreases lung capacity, increases intracranial pressure, reestablishes some fetal circulatory patterns and starts stress reactions within the body” (See the crying page in sources). It’s a myth that should have died LONG AGO.
I echo what other posters have said: she just got yanked from a cozy, noisy, very warm, constantly moving place where she was ‘one’ with mom, it is unrealistic to expect that she’d be perfectly content to sleep by herself in what seems to her a huge, cold, quiet bed. I’m sure you’re tired and stressed, if possible, lay down with her. Enjoy holding your precious baby, it only lasts so long, and would you rather have to be one of the parents who has to look back later and say, “Gee, I should’ve held her more”
BTW, it is perfectly normal for her to want to be held darn near 24/7. Use a sling, you can still get some stuff done, and baby is happy and secure. As well as the catnaps. Babies tend sleep frequently, but not for very long. I still put my 2 year old to sleep by holding him, and then I can go off and get things done. I cherish those moments knowing all too soon they’ll stop.
And babies as they grow, will entertain themselves for slivers of time, but they thrive on interaction with other people. They need it to develop properly.
P.S. don’t use any comforters/tee shirts/afghans under, around, or over your baby trying to get her to sleep. It’s dangerous, seriously increasing the risk of SIDS and suffocation. It’s not likely to help much either.

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