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Moving Co-Sleeper to Crib or Full Sz. Bed

junebug02junebug02
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My DD will be one in two weeks and we have been co-sleeping since she was a month or two old.  Our bed is not safe for her anymore - she will crawl right off if I would let her and she almost did early the other morning when I was groggy and barely caught her. None of us are sleeping well, including her, because she's always rolling all over the place and we have to move her, etc.

 I rock her to sleep every night.  I then try to lay her in the crib.  Every time, she opens her eyes and screams bloody murder.  I'm at a total loss.  I don't think I want to do CIO, although DH thinks its probably the best answer :-(  I'm debating just putting her in a full size bed we already have and either putting the mattress & box spring on the floor and/or adding rails.  I don't know what the best answer is for her.  CIO goes against everything I believe in as a parent.

She is FF, not BF and is transitioning to whole milk in the next week or so.  She does not wake in the night to eat and mostly does STTN.

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Re: Moving Co-Sleeper to Crib or Full Sz. Bed

  • erinkate23erinkate23

    Hey there!

    I just posted this in another post:

    https://drjaygordon.com/attachment/gentletranstition.html

     We started with a crib mattress at the foot of our bed for naps, then mattress at night, and are graduating (slowly) to the big-boy-bed on the floor of his room.

     

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  • elizabeelizabe

    We had a similar issue around 15 months-- DD started freaking out whenever I tried to put her in the crib. Finally, I put the crib mattress on the floor in her room out of desperation, and she started sleeping again! I *think* the problem was that she had started a big "I can do it myself" phase, and the fact that she couldn't get herself out of the crib made her so angry and afraid.

    We double-checked all the babyproofing in her room and put a baby gate in the door, so she can get out of bed and call to us if she needs us, but can't leave her room. Another plus is that I can lay down next to the crib mattress instead of having to hold her or rock her now. Good luck!

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  • junebug02junebug02
    I like the idea of the babygate at the door - especially so I don't have to close the door and keep going in there to check on her.  Thanks for the response!
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  • jen5-03jen5-03 member
    Both of mine transitioned to a mattress on the floor fairly well at 16mo and 19mo. I prefer to do it to a regular mattress, not a crib mattress so I can get in bed with them as needed. DS especially seems to do MUCH better if he goes to sleep in the bed rather than go to sleep in one place and wake up in another. If he wakes up in the night after we've moved him from one place to another, he tends to wake up screaming his head off. If he went to sleep in his bed, he wakes up with little unhappy noises rather than the screaming.
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