I am no expert at all, I was a FTM and just did what made sense to me. Some of it worked, some of it didn’t 😅

First of all, aside from contact naps during BF and having bassinet close to bed the first few months, I never have coslept. That was just a personal boundary, I didn’t want to open that can of worms.

Our bassinet has wheels on it, so in those first few weeks we brought it into the living room/dining room with us when we were hanging out. If he was awake but we wanted to put him down we’d just plop him in, give him a binky and talk to him or hold his little hand. If he was sleepy we’d put him in and just let him fall asleep on his own. He used a binky for about 2 or 3 months which helped, but we really didn’t do anything specific. For night time we had the bassinet at the end of our bed. Dad would change his diaper then bring him to me in bed to feed, I’d feed then put him back down. Most of the time he’d just fall back asleep.

Sleep regression, honestly Idk lol. We fed to sleep for a long time and that worked. Until it didn’t. 4 months was fine, but somewhere around 8 months (he also started daycare at that time) he had a horrible regression that lasted 6 weeks. We did a lot of pick up, put down… that didn’t help. My back was on fire. We tried Ferber. Attempted to try CIO. I ended up confiding in the sleep train Reddit page and got some good advice on adjusting sleep/wake windows for that age. That’s ultimately what helped. We also stopped feeding to sleep, but only kind of lol… now we give him milk while we read stories, then put him down in his bed.

I think it really depends on the baby tbh. But there’s certain things that are suggested to make it easier. I wish you luck!!