Crib transition, what worked for you?

Redsoxchick · June 2012

DS HATES his crib...I can't figure out why. He's been in a RNP but he will sleep flat very comfortable, as we've taken him in our bed on a few desperate nights. We've got everything, mobile, soother rainforest thing on the crib(which he loves), white noise, projector with moons and stars, the soothing seahorse. He hates being swaddled so that's not an option. I've been letting him CIO for 5 mins at a time before I go in and calm him down but after an hour or so of this he's just exhausted...and I feel horrible.

bigbear · June 2012

Oy that's a tough one....

It looks like you have tried just about anything I can think of... We transferred DD to her crib at 4 weeks and she adjusted right away. She wasn't sleeping anywhere very well but once we raised the crib mattress a bit it helped a lot. Lately DD has started waking up more again so we got the noise machine from fisher price and that works great.

I'm sorry I'm no help, just wanted to say I hope you find a good solution soon. Sometimes they just need a bit more time...

Maybe try the crib for short naps first. What I did all the time is leave DD in the crib when I'd go to the bathroom and stuff like that. Just a little at a time and slowly increased it then. So by 4 weeks she was totally OK with it...

bigbear · June 2012

Oh and maybe he has too many things going on and is ovewhelmed by it all. Try losing the mobile and just have white noise but no visual stimulation???

lp0 · June 2012

My ds is having a hard time transitioning from the bassinet (which craddled him) to laying flat on his back in the pnp by our bed. I rolled up two receiving blankets and put it under the sheet to help him feel a little more snug. It seemed to help quite a bit but I think we are just in that 5 month wakeful period so he went from sttn to getting up at 3am.

Torinos · June 2012

I don't know if your crib is in a seperate room or not, but when we transitioned DS, we moved his RNP to the nursery at two months. He had been sleeping in it in our room. We gave him a few nights to get used to sleeping in a room by himself and then we moved him to his crib. That worked for us. It took him a couple nights to get used to being in an open flat space (compared to the RNP), but he adjusted pretty quickly. Good luck!

Redsoxchick · June 2012

Torinos:
I don't know if your crib is in a seperate room or not, but when we transitioned DS, we moved his RNP to the nursery at two months. He had been sleeping in it in our room. We gave him a few nights to get used to sleeping in a room by himself and then we moved him to his crib. That worked for us. It took him a couple nights to get used to being in an open flat space (compared to the RNP), but he adjusted pretty quickly. Good luck!

It is in his nursery and he had been in our room but we have had him in his room in his RNP for 2 weeks...and he does fine, still STTN for the most part

mrs.larry · June 2012

you mentioned CIO... do you have a book/method you're using or are you just winging it? reason I ask is that a lot of times the books have trouble shooting for you in case things aren't getting better, as well as a set method to follow.

I used a combo of Ferber and Sleep Easy Solution and both advocated a progressive approach. So you're going in at 3 minutes, then 5 minutes, then 10 etc. and so it gives the baby time to adjust and fall asleep eventually. If you go in at the same interval every time (like 5 minutes every time) then they just get used to that and wait for you to come in. With my DS1 it took maybe 30 minutes the first night, at progressive itnervals and shorter every night thereafter till no crying within a week. It does suck though, in the beginning.

Could also be that your LO just isn't ready for it too. With our DS1 we thought about doing it at 4 months but he wasn't quite ready, but then at 6 months it worked like a charm. You know your kid, so trust your instincts!!

oheck · June 2012

DS slept in a swing until 4 months. While he was sleeping in his swing, we would put him in his crib at least once a day to watch his mobile. We noticed he would stay in his crib longer and longer. We waited until he seemed uncomfortable in his swing and noticed he would sleep with the swing not moving before we started the transition. We would start the night in his swing and then move him to the crib after his first feeding. If he wouldn't go down after multiple attempts we would go back to the swing. We just kept going back and forth until he was mainly sleeping in the crib. We then started putting him in the crib at the beginning of the night. This probably took just a few days to do. I was happy that we transitioned without tears. I do think a big part of the success was that he seemed ready.

DS still doesn't go to bed awake. That is the next thing we have to work on but he hasn't seemed ready yet.

SuperTreesa · June 2012

My DD2 slept at night swaddled in her arms reach cosleeper and napped in a swing until 3 months. Then one nap time I laid her down in her crib and she slept 3 hours straight. No swaddle. What worked was she was on her belly. By that time she could roll over even swaddled, so I didn't have much of a choice anymore. Even if I laid her down on her back she was gonna roll over anyways. It was scary at first but I checked on her often and watched her like a hawk with the video monitor.

GingerWife · June 2012

Are you transitioning from the RockNPlay to crib? If so, when I get a chance (probably tonight when DH plays with DS), I can type up what we did to transition if you are still struggling.

We essentially put the RnP in the crib and slowing flattened it.

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