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Transitioning to crib

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Hello! DD is almost 7 weeks and sleeps in a RnP in our room. She has pretty consistently been sleeping for 5-6 hours at night with a feeding before bed and then will wake between 5-6am to nurse again. She will nap without problems during the day in a PnP at daycare. I'm wondering if I should start to transition her to sleeping in her crib at night. My only drawback is that I like having her so close so I can nurse her in bed. I've also researched that it reduces the risk of SIDS to have them near mom until they hit 4 months.

So mommies how have you made the switch and how old were they? How did you handle nursing? Did you start off by swaddling? TIA!

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  • mz07mz07 member
    I decided not to transition until 4 months for the SIDS reasons you meniton. However, when LO's bedtime moved from 10pm down to 8pm and my DH and I didn't want to wake her up when we went in and out of our room getting ready for bed, I started putting her to sleep in her own room and then moving her to our room after I gave her the 10pmish dream feed. I reasoned that it was practice for her to fall asleep in her own room, but she still slept next to us for the majority of the night. Now she's over 4 months and the last two nights she's slept in her own room. I had been swaddling her, so the first night I put her to sleep in the swaddle in her swing, because she's been rolling over, but last night she protested the swing, so I went cold turkey without the swaddle in her crib and she did fine. If you haven't been swaddling, I wouldn't start (it's unclear from your post).
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  • rjeller32rjeller32 member

    Honestly, there is research for co-sleeping reducing risk of SIDS, and research showing it increases risk of SIDS, so I have always gone with I am most comfortable with.

    I EBF, and LO has slept in her crib since she turned 3 months. It just happened on one try, and she does pretty well. She doesn't STTN yet, she gets up at about 12-2 time range for a feeding, and that is when she comes to bed with me until 7. So I guess we still partially co-sleep.But I don't mind. I am WAY too lazy to get up, feed her and rock her back to sleep to put back in her crib when I can just pop my boob out in bed and go back to sleep. But I imagine she would do just fine going back to her crib for the night if I wasn't so lazy haha.

    Also, I did start of swaddling in her crib, and then by 4 months we did a cold turkey switch to no swaddle.

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  • jllmb79jllmb79 member
    imagerjeller32:

    Honestly, there is research for co-sleeping reducing risk of SIDS, and research showing it increases risk of SIDS, so I have always gone with I am most comfortable with.

    I EBF, and LO has slept in her crib since she turned 3 months. It just happened on one try, and she does pretty well. She doesn't STTN yet, she gets up at about 12-2 time range for a feeding, and that is when she comes to bed with me until 7. So I guess we still partially co-sleep.But I don't mind. I am WAY too lazy to get up, feed her and rock her back to sleep to put back in her crib when I can just pop my boob out in bed and go back to sleep. But I imagine she would do just fine going back to her crib for the night if I wasn't so lazy haha.

    Also, I did start of swaddling in her crib, and then by 4 months we did a cold turkey switch to no swaddle.

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