3 month sleeping

shannons913 · February 2016

baby just turned 3 months old and started rolling the other day so I decided to start getting him to sleep in his own room. He slept in our room in a rnp since birth. He will not sleep in his room for more than 30 minutes and I'll rock him back to sleep only once he's screaming for 10 minutes or so. He will either wake up once I lay him down or wake up 10 minutes later. I tired to put him in his rnp in his room as well to try and get him use to the room before the crib and that's not working either. He still likes to be swaddled to sleep so I've recently started swaddling with arms out. Any suggestions?

midge519 · February 2016

Could you wear a shirt all day and then put it in his crib so it smells like you.

I dont have have a lot of suggestions as it took us a bit to get him used to his crib. We just did the first stretch of sleep consistently in there and it worked after a while. We're purchasing a zipadeezip in the next week or two to transition from swaddling.

ktlany · February 2016

We just transitioned from swaddled sleeping in the RnP to unswaddled in the PnP - still in our room, but laying flat was the toughest part for LO. We got the Baby Merlin's Magic Sleepsuit and she's been sleeping pretty well. She's was sleeping all night and now wakes up once, buy it's better than our first attempt at unswaddling which went very poorly for 3 nights before we just went back to swaddling. Good luck!

sistio · February 2016

Having same problem. LO does not like sleeping on a flat surface, so is been tough transitioning from the RnP to the crib. I try every night, but he just wakes up after 1/2 hour and then I give up and put him back into the RnP.

janeedem · February 2016

I keep posting this because it has been a miracle worker for my LO...try the woombie!! His whole sleep experience has changed since we put him in it. He went from continually waking up to sleeping 4-7 straight!

Lolo427 · February 2016

The swaddle up 50/50 has worked great for us transition wise. DD sleeps with one arm out, one arm in.

momma2char · February 2016

I went from having mine swaddled in R&P to unswaddled in crib about a month ago and mine was the same until I did these things to the crib to make it feel more like the R&P (with a watchful eye):
- crib on an angle
- 2 rolled up receiving blankets under the crib sheet on either side of baby's body (where they would be about waist down when baby is in crib)
- soft blanket on top of crib sheet (cushiony like R&P)
- something that smells like me (i.e. Shirt) on top of that
- swaddled (I had mine in the woombie)

She took to this set up right away but I was paranoid about everything going on in the crib so I was in her room every 5-10 minutes checking on her. Once she was used to this- only took a day, I started taking one thing away each nap, until I was left with the crib on an angle. I left it like that for a few more naps on its own then made it flat. After this I started to work on unswaddling which I had to do cold turkey (into the Halo sleepsack) since she started rolling over, and it took about a week for her to get used to

I have white noise going on all night for her so she doesn't startle easily, as her reflex is still very strong. She's learned to put herself back to sleep or sleep through her movements at this point now. Although the week of adjustment was very tough, she's actually sleeping better at night now in her crib in her own room without the swaddle!

oceanlove13 · February 2016

We transitioned from co sleeping to crib about 4 weeks ago because his wake ups started increasing and I was not sleeping well. He was eating 5 times a night and he is 14 lbs so this was clearly a comfort thing. Most nights the first week he would do his first stretch in his crib and end up back in bed with me. I didn't make much progress as he was still waking up to 5 times a night! Then the second week, I started not responding as fast when he woke up to see if he was startled by movement and actively still sleeping or actually awake and hungry. I would wait 10-20 mins and most of the time he would fall back to sleep. He would be fussing, but not crying. If he cried I went and fed him. The next week we were down to feeding 1-2 times per night and this week has been 1 time and others he sleeps through the night with no fussing. It was a long four weeks since I spent a lot of time awake looking at the monitor and in his room checking on him, but now we are all resting better! The biggest change for me was not responding as quickly and it's amazing the baby will sleep and we never let him cry in the crib, just fuss. I put him in the crib sleeping to start the night. With our first son, when we heard him wake in the night and make any noise we would go in and get him and I would nurse him, rock him, etc. This was a dead end road for us. At 14 months he was still waking and nursing multiple times a night. He never learned to self soothe because we never gave him the chance. At that age a child should be STTN. We had to resort to CIO for him and it was HARD. So this time I am not making that mistake. I've learned it's okay and natural for the babies to wake up through the night and they don't need me to run into their room every time they fuss. This is just my experience and what has worked for us.

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