As new parents my husband and I were completely ignorant to the struggles of putting a newborn to sleep. The first two weeks of our daughter's life, we thought we were going to go insane from lack of sleep. Sleeping in shifts was the only way we survived as our little one was extremely fussy, hard to rock to sleep and once she was asleep, would wake up every 1-2 hours. We were racked with exhaustion and growing desperate every day. At one point we considered buying a $1,500 bassinet that promise...