My daughter is six weeks now and I feel like we’ve gotten a pretty good handle on the day-to-day stuff. 

I have another three months of parental leave. What advice or recommendations does parentcaster have for this unique period of time? Any regrets? https://i.imgur.com/hDitOWM.jpg

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This is around the beautiful moment where she begins to smile

Big thing I learned was that this was a key landmark for when she begins to develop habits, especially around sleep

What I wish I did at this point was prime my daughter to fall asleep on her own at this point. Saves you more sleepless nights down the road

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Conceptually we all learn how to fall asleep on our own. I’d start with closely watching when your daughter is starting to get sleepy. At that point go through your sleep ritual and just put her in the bassinet awake. Little bit drowsy is good. Don’t want her to be just about knocked out

We had progressively more rocking to get her to sleep and had it bad when sleep regressions kicked in. Survived 2 months of 15 wakings a night until she was old enough to sleep train her

At several months, our daughter became dependent upon being held to sleep. It became a total disaster. After trying every strategy, we finally had to go through one insane cry out, but we were all better for it almost immediately after. We all slept better, including her.