How long did it take you to transition from cosleeping to baby sleeping in crib? My daughter wakes up A LOT?
ByMy daughter (6.5 months old) used to sleep through the night (6-8 hours) in her swing or in her car seat next to our bed, then got sick at around 3 months, we started co-sleeping for everyone’s sanity.
We are trying to transition her to a crib. We are doing this because she bites me in her sleep (I would continue to co-sleep if she didn’t bite or if we could get her to stop).
IF I can manage to get her down without waking up, she wakes up every 15-45 minutes, all night, and eventually I bring her to bed with me when I just can’t stay awake for the 20+ minutes to soothe her.
So if I manage to be persistent and keep putting her back in the crib, how long will it take for her to stop waking up all the freaking time?
And no BS answers about how cosleeping is dangerous, or, conversely, about how the family bed is the best thing ever because my nipples disagree.
Also, she really likes her crib for play time and it smells like her/us, it’s in our bedroom and all that, and it’s not cold and I have tried swaddling her with mixed results.
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7 Comments
April 12th, 2010 at 11:07 pm
You have to be consistent once you make the decision to transition her to the crib. You will have to let her cry it out and be more patient. Good Luck, it is a VERY hard habit to break!
April 12th, 2010 at 11:27 pm
It took my son about a week or so to get used to sleeping in this crib. Just keep it up. Don’t stop even for one night. Now he refuses so sleep in the same bed as us. He has to be in his crib. We also in the beginning would cover him with one of our shirts. That seemed to help him a lot.
April 12th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
My and my husband cosleep with our daughter, shes now 10 months. We’ve been trying to get her to sleep in her crib too. Ive been putting her to sleep in the bed then moving her to the crib and it seems to be working. I know what your going through, just keep trying and eventually she’ll get used to it!!
April 12th, 2010 at 11:54 pm
Her crib shouldn’t be in your room. She probably isn’t sleeping through the night because she knows you are right there in the room and if she cries long enough you will come. Put her crib in her room and keep a monitor in her crib so you can hear her. Also try using the swaddle again. My daughter can’t go to sleep at night any other way. I started putting her in her crib at 3 weeks. She is 2 months now. Good luck!!
April 13th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Co sleeping is awesome! No argument here!
She might be getting too big for swaddling…she’ll feel confined.
Here is my advice…and it’s worked for everyone I’ve suggested it for! For nap or night time.
I would do your nightly routine to ready her for bed. Routine at bedtime is a good thing…it gets her in mindset. Calm, quiet and maybe the lights down a little. Cuddle, sing, read, etc.
Kiss her, put her in her bed.
Maybe avoid those big, killer, PUPPY EYES! They’re the downfall of many! LOL! Might need to put a blanket on the crib rail so she can’t see you so well.
After putting her down, hum a little as you walk away. “Good night, mommy loves you!”
DON’T pick her up again. If you do, she will expect you to pick her up every time.
Go in every few minutes, sooth her, sing to her, pat her back, and leave again. Repeat this…sometimes many times.
She may get more than fussy before the first night is over. Sometimes it is pretty easy.
The idea is that she will learn you ARE there, but that you are NOT going to pick her up. She may think that if she can’t see or feel you, that you are actually gone. This will reassure her.
After a few times, try to hum or sing from the hallway instead of actually going in.
It may take a couple of nights for her to learn to sooth herself to sleep.
Be strong! It’s never easy, but it’s so much better to do NOW!
Good luck…
April 13th, 2010 at 12:59 am
I co-slept with all three of my kids till they were about 5-6 months old, they had started crawling so I was worried they would fall out of the bed so I moved them to their babybed right on the side of my bed, I would rock them to sleep and lay them in their beds and if they needed anything I was right there, occasionally their pacifier would fall out and they would start crying so I would just pop it back in. The thing that helped the most was “white noise” I bought a air purifier that made a humming like “white noise” and since I bought that my last baby started sleeping all night. He went from waking up twice a night to sleeping all night long. Also my 10 month old still loves to be rocked and swaddled at night, when its time for bedtime he crawls up to my recliner with his blanket I wrap him in it feed him his bottle and lay him in his baby bed and he sleeps all night long. Good Luck.
April 13th, 2010 at 1:54 am
I know the crib is in you room, but is it right up against the bed so she can see you?
I’m surprised she bites in her sleep, do you mean when she is nursing or just randomly (I’m just trying to understand?
Its also possible that because she associates the crib with playing that she won’t sleep well in it.