When to stop using Rock and Play for Sleep?

hohmanam · April 2013

Ds has slept in the rock and play since Day 1. We swaddle him every night, thus we don't strap him in. At first he slept in our room and at 5 weeks we moved him to his room and we have a video monitor. He seems content in there and sleeps 10-12 hours a night. I can't seem him getting out of it anytime soon, but wondering what other Mom's are doing.

When do you plan on transitioning your LO from the rock and play to the crib? I'm thinking for both safety and easier of a transition. I'm afraid if we wait too long, it will be even harder, but I am really enjoying the sleep! (We tried at 6 weeks, but he got sick and we were told to have him sleep at an incline, so we moved him back to the rock and play. Plus, he started getting up two times a night.)

mkanderson85 · April 2013

I always start her in her crib, and if she's really not having it, I move her to the rnp. That way, at least I try. She's slept there for quite a while some days.

PrideandJoy29 · April 2013

We still use ours. We'll probably stop when he's too big for it.

KMAXON · April 2013

I am going to switch him to the bassinet in our room, so he gets used to sleeping on a flat surface. Once he does well with that and is sleeping longer stretches, I will move him to the crib in his own room. That being said, he sti

wells2010 · April 2013

I am exactly where you are now. DD loves the RnP and sleeps fantastic in it. I am afraid to do anything else. I am not sure how much they could move all swaddled up tight in it, but I get nervous to have her in it all night once she turns over and want

DublinMama · April 2013

DS has slept in his RnP since birth, and I haven't really given too much thought to transitioning him out yet. He's nine weeks old and not STTN yet, so I figure when he starts doing that consistently, we will try to work our way into the crib. I hav

mom2b22013 · April 2013

My DS slept in the RnP until something like 7 months without being strapped in. But he was and still is a horrible sleeper.

Kingston54 · April 2013

We don't have this. DD sleeps in a bassinet... But wanted to say I'd start buckling him in because babies learn to do things overnight. DD shimmy-ed out of her bouncer unbuckled -luckily it was on the floor and I was sitting right there.

2moms2b · April 2013

According to the rnp, they can safely be in them until 25 pounds or they start sitting up on their own. Even with LO strapped in they say once they can sit up on their own it's not safe due to tipping over.

At the age of our LOs sitt

javagrl · April 2013

My LO wouldn't sleep flat at all at first- even if he was in a deep sleep when I laid him down in the pack n play bassinet he would wake up within a few minutes at the most and scream. We just let him sleep in the rock n play for the first couple mo

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