Night time troubles

momma2char

Needing some advice! I've been co-sleeping with my daughter since she was about 3 weeks old due to both of us sleeping better that way. Recently she has been waking up every 1-2 hours to feed (I'm thinking it might be because she smells milk and wants a snack?) and we are no longer getting decent sleeps. We also just want the bed back to ourselves. My husband and I are trying to transition her back to the rock n play where she slept when she came home from the hospital. I started her on naps in the rock n play where she will sleep maybe 30 min at a time so far (with the rock n play in her room during the day). At night it's obviously more difficult to do this as she will last 30 min MAX in the rock n play and wake up crying and after 3 times of trying to put her back to sleep (white noise, swaddle, beside our bed in our room, my scent near the rock n play, and twilight ladybug.. Same as her naps) she is screaming and so hard to calm down. At what point do we stop trying at night to get her to sleep in the rock n play? Do we try all night or stop after a couple times? Or do I try to transition her slowly through nursing her to sleep and putting her in the rock n play in the middle of the night? Any advice is appreciated! We just really want to get out of the habit of co-sleeping, as nice as all of the cuddles have been.

momming247

I'm in the same boat and began cosleeping due to EBF and c section complications. Now I realize not only is it unsafe but same as you, it not as ideal as it seemed at first. She has always screamed in her bassinet. We are using the bassinet and just hoping it gets better with time. Hubs takes it in the living room for a few hours so I can sleep. Then we either switch and I go in there or he brings it into the bedroom and goes to sleep and I watch her from there (he goes to bed much later than me). It's a pack and play bassinet an require breakdown for these moves so this isn't ideal either. It's sort of with fingers crossed that she learned to sleep longer period at a time. My DD is 5 weeks and still feeding every 1-2.hours as well.

BryDienta

My lo would not sleep in any bassinet or rock n play or crib. We were co-sleeping but being back to work I needed to start getting some better sleep. After trying everything and lo just screaming I tried putting him down for a nap in the pack and play on his stomach. I know it's not advised but... It worked. He took his first nap not on someone (he's 7 weeks) and last night he slept in his co-sleeper crib for 2 hours which to me was HUGE!

momma2char

@BryDienta I've tried the tummy thing too cause she usually sleeps so well on my chest too, but I did it when she was sort of upset and she started screaming even louder.. so maybe I need to try when she's more calm and drowsy and maybe put her on my night shirt to see if that helps? Do you rock her to sleep in your arms in the cradle position and then flip her over onto her tummy in the crib? Im trying to figure out how to change her position without startling her. And @mariangie7 did you guys just try all night pretty much then until she would sleep? Or did you try for 2-3 hours and then just let her sleep in bed with you? My husband thinks we should just try the rock n play every night for a couple hours and then if she's getting too upset to let her sleep in bed with me but I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do. I've got her napping in the rock n play in our room during the day now to see if that helps the transition (she just started sleeping in the rock n play again yesterday since her swing broke for nap time). Hopefully that eases the transition too.

BryDienta

@kirstienlowell I hold him or rock him until he's completely asleep and then as I flip him over I kind of still rocked him a little. It took a couple tries to get a good motion but it's not too bad. And then I just make sure he has his binky/wubbanub animal in his mouth and he stayed asleep through the moving.

momming247

@kirstienlowell We would put her in, and let her last her normal 10-15 before crying. Pick her up, put her back in. Rock her to sleep, put her in...really jus back and forth with this. As of now we just manage about 1-2 hours of her in the pack and play at a time. Still holding out for the longer stretches.

beanie1977

We've been co sleeping but with a snuggle nest. I highly suggest this! It's safer and he's used to it. We've just now transitioned him to the pack n play and put the snuggle nest inside so he's in something he's used to. When he outgrows the snuggle nest hopefully he'll be used to the pack n play and will easily sleep in that (fingers crossed!) I think the snuggle nest is good up to maybe 24 inches.

momma2char

i was going to do the snuggle nest for transition but shes almost too big for it so we just sucked it up and took turns over night getting her used to the rock n play! she would start crying 5-10 min after being put in it so we would have to rock her back to sleep. The first night it took about 3 hours to get her to sleep in it swaddled and then she slept her first 4 hours in a row, the next night it took an hour to put her to sleep and she slept her first 5 hour stretch! I guess being persistent and following through with a bedtime routine helped a lot rather than just attempting it every night we also started swaddling her again which we thought she hated but she only fusses for a minute or two if anything and then she stops and starts closing her eyes so so happy and relieved!