Getting my 10 mth old to sleep in her crib
Annie121
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My LO is going to be 10 months old this week. I have been a SAHM since she was born, but I will be going back to work this coming week, and she willbe coming with me to the pre-school I will work at. We co-sleep and it has worked so far because when she has been sick, I've felt much better about having her close to make sure she's ok. But now I'm faced with the dilema of going back to work and wanting to make sure that all of us get a good night's sleep/ We've always had a night time routine, and that has worked to calm her down and get her ready for bed. I nurse her, and she falls asleep, and then I put her in her crib, but wakes up within the hour, two at most. It breaks my heart to hear her cry and it sounds like she's hurting (I know she's just doing it to get out of the crib, but it just breaks my heart). What other methods have worked for other parents, I know it's going to take some time and consistency, but I just want to hear everyone's success stories.
Re: Getting my 10 mth old to sleep in her crib
Also if you are going back to work don't be surprised if she reverse cycles for the first month adjusting to the new schedule.
My daughter wakes after her first sleep cycle...I just rock her for a minute and she goes back to sleep. Sometimes she wakes after the next sleep cycle...sometimes she keeps on sleeping. Try to set up a routine to use when she wakes so she will get used to going right back to sleep.
As the PP said starting daycare, even with you there, will likely throw previous sleep routines out the window. Expect to start over with a new routine with more wake ups etc. There is so much going on at this age in regards to physical and brain development when you add group care, more stimulation and more exposure to illnesses then sleep is bound to go wonky!!
Once my son started sprouting teeth and crawling, he did not sleep through the night in his crib. He'll sleep through the night (9 pm to 7 am or so) if he co-sleeps with me, so that is what we are doing. We did try some non CIO methods with our older kid, be he was the exact same way. He started sleeping in his toddler bed consistently around 2 years 2 months, and I am OK with that being the case with our younger one as well.
Oh, and I am a working mom who gets up at 4:30 to get ready, so I just make sure the pillow barricade is on my side of the bed when I get up so LO can't roll over and fall out while he spends the rest of his sleep with Dad.