Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

How did you do it? How hard was it?

DS has hated his crib from day 1. So we put him the bassinet. He was fine in that until he hit 2 m/o...then he would wake up crying like every 20 minutes..out of desperation and exhaustion, we pulled him into bed with us, and he slept fine. Started STTN by 4 m/o.

But now he's almost 9 m/o, and we'd like to try and get him in the crib. He's rolling over and scooting (army crawl), and pulling himself to standing...I'm paranoid about him falling off our very tall king size bed.

Any tips of how to smoothly transition? I'd rather not do CIO unless absolutely nothing else works. TIA for any advice.

Message edited 10/20/2009 5:00:08 PM.

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

When you figure it out, let me know, LOL. My DD sleeps with us and she is 15 months old. I have to say though most of the time I love the extra cuddle time because I can kiss and hug her all I want since I don't see her the entire day (I work full time). I Co-slept with my parents until I was 3 years old and the only way they go me out of the bed was to tell me that I needed to protect my little brother (who was just born at the time). I plan on using that when number 2 arrives in April.

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

AJ spent the first 4months in our bed. Never put her in the crib overnight. Frankly I wanted to have her close. We had a snuggle nest so she was in her own crib-like area inside our bed. It fit perfectly between our pillows and had hard sturdy ‘walls’.

At 4months we started our transition. Basically it was wait until she crashes then put her into her crib. She still woke up in the middle of the night but we’d just go over there and find her paci, feed her, rock her, etc until she fell asleep again then put her right back into her crib. Our rocker became our best friend.

I’m not expert and I have a lot of short comings since my kiddo really has no bedtime routine to speak of, but she’s a solid sleeper in her crib now.

Also all naps ended up with her in a crib, she just got used to always waking up in there I guess.

To this day, though, if she’s sick she comes to bed with us. I wouldn’t call us light sleepers but then again I wouldn’t call AJ exactly tender either. We’re very aware when she wakes up and her favorite thing to do is to try to crawl/climb over me to get to the floor to walk/play around. I’ve yet to have an issue. Some weekends we bring her into our bed to get an extra hour’s sleep. She can be convinced to just rest quietly with us. But when its her play time, sleep time is very much over.

HTH

Basically… Good Luck!

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

we put ds is a twin bed with bed rails. He is still in our room but in his own bed.

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

I cosleep with my first ds. For a few weeks, I started to put him in the crib and lay on the floor next to him until he fell asleep. It might sound crazy but it worked. But now he is 3 and he has a bed but he usually ends up in our bed by morning.

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

We Love Co Sleeping and when our DC are ready they have their own rooms set up with Queen beds... Until then we are all enjoying in the now

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Don't get me wrong, I love being close to him. But he is sprawling out & taking over the bed. Between trying to make room for him & DH, I end up on the edge. I'm in desperate need of a deep tissue massage because I sleep so stiff lol.

But I have a feeling DS won't want to leave our nice cozy bed or his nice fluffy down pillow

We've tried several times through out the past few months to put him in the crib when he falls asleep. He wakes up right away. Maybe it's a hopeless cause til he goes in his big boy bed...but he's too young for that now.

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We still co-sleep with our DD who is 20 months. I was going to attempt to start putting her in her crib tonight and let her CIO but I dont know if Im up to it. I actually love co-sleeping with her but Im kind of missing my alone time with DH especially since baby #2 is coming in a few months.

Re: Co-Sleepers: A ? about transitioning out of your bed...

We co-slept for 10 months and just recently transitioned to the crib. DS also hated his crib and the PNP. We went to visit my parents one weekend and got there late at night. DS ended up waking up and playing for a while. Once he tired himself out, my mom put him down in the PNP and he actually stayed in it. I was shocked b/c every other time we tried to put him in there to sleep, he'd wake up and cry. I think he was so tired that it didn't matter where he slept. He fussed several times, but went back to sleep very quickly.

The next night, after he fell asleep on DH, DH put him down in the PNP and he slept there. He fussed a lot again, but he stayed in there all night. Once we went back home, we started putting him in the crib after he was asleep. It took a few nights for him to STTN in the crib. We still can't put DS down in the crib drowsy or awake without him getting hysterical. We'll rock him or let him fall asleep in or bed or our arms before moving him. He used to wake up as soon as we tried to move him to the crib, but now he's ok when we move him. Good luck! I never thought we'd be able to transition him to the crib, but I guess he was finally ready.