My 2mos old son does sleep in his crib. The 1st few wks…was hard for me to leave him alone, but my husband insisted he would be okay and that the monitor would wake us up. So after nights of having the monitor stuck to my ear waiting for my baby to cry, I became at ease and let my baby sleep …and left the monitor on my nightstand. Lately, My lil’ monkey wants to stay up and interact whenever it’s “time to sleep”.
So…After his night-time bottle, I take him into my bedroom (lights off, only noise is from our fans:white noise), lean back against the headboard and lay him on my chest while patting his back. Within 10 minutes he is asleep.
Baby needs to learn “bedtime” through a routine. A diaper change, being lotioned down, changed into a night outfit, bottle, soothed…etc. Find a routine you want for her and then introduce it. It’s going to take a few nights for her to become familiar w/it.
I agree with you on the safety of the gear she is currently sleeping in/on.

My 6 mo old slept at night in a battery-operated swing for the first 3 mo. It reclined a long way so she was flat a lot of the time – the fisher price papasan. She absolutely needed motion and the more vigorous the better (the MamaRoo went unused). Around 3 mo, we started to transition her to the crib because she was going to be in a crib at day care and after a couple of restless nights, she’s there every night and loves it.

Our little Squidgelet sleeps in his co-sleeper attached to our bed, although he will wiggle until he has his head or back pressed against the side to feel secure, I suppose…& when we startles himself awake at night either myself or my husband has to gently shake the whole thing to get him back to sleep, or snuggle with him for a few moments. That said, all this went out the window a few days ago, as we travelled back to the East Coast for a wedding & were travelling for a solid week…baby slept on the red eye flight just fine, but as soon as we got out of the taxi at home at 2am, bam! AWAKE. The only thing what would put him down was his fisher price swing, & that is the first time he’s ever needed to sleep the night in there, usually he only does cat naps in it. I would rather have everyone sleep, no matter how or why, then deal with everyone not sleeping…that said when baby slept in his swing, I slept on the couch cause I didn’t want him to stay in the living room all night by himself!

I am having the same problem, but with naptime. We just transitioned baby (at 6 weeks) from our bed to a basinette right next to me. The basinette rocks so when I put her to bed after nursing I rock her until she is in a deep sleep. In the night if I can tell she is starting to wake up, I gently rock her back to sleep. That way she gets the experience of her own bed, but I still have motion on my side. Naptime is a different story. I can’t get her to sleep in anything but her swing or jiggle chair during the day. I try every day to get her to take naps in the basinette, or her crib. At 8 weeks no luck. A lot of the time I even hold her through her naps because I feel guilty putting her in her swing for hours at a time during the day when she is still so little.

I used to think our baby needed to have me close in order to sleep, but I’ve learned now that’s not the case. She and I both sleep so much better when she is in her own room. Even when she was sleeping in our room (be it in the pack and play, swing, or bed), I would wake at every little noise she made. It was torture!

My mom found a co-sleeper that is supposed to go on a full-size mattress to keep the little one contained and in her own space. Instead of putting in on our bed, I put it in her crib to give me peace of mind that she’s not going to roll into the side of the crib (even though she can’t completely roll over yet). She’s three months now and I start her bedtime routine early with a bath or lotion, fresh diaper, pj’s, a swaddle, and then after she eats, its off to dreamland. Usually. That’s what works for us.

Danielle, I completely understand your situation, because we are going through the same thing. My now 7 month old daughter won’t sleep in her crib for longer than an hour. My poor husband is sleeping in the spare bedroom because he is a light sleeper and her little sighs at night wake him up. I just can’t let her cry it out, it breaks my heart. Luckily I have a friend who understands my problem, she has a 3 month old and a 5 year old in bed with her every night. We are hoping to get our daughter in her old bed by the time she turns 1. I hope everything works out well for you and your baby!

My 4 year old co-slept with us for his first year. My 7 month old daughter does also. I catch alot of flack from people but our pediatrician said do whatever is right for you and your baby. She initially slept in an in-bed co-sleeper thing in our bed until she got too long. Now she sleeps on a diaper changer mattress pad thing in our bed. It is just high enough so that we don’t worry about rolling over on her and she still gets the comfort of knowing we are right there.

I have similar issues with my son who is 10 weeks old. Though the bassinet is next to our bed, he will not sleep in it at all. He hates neing swaddled as well. The first few weeks, he would only sleep in his carrier, which I felt terribly guilty about, until my sister admitted to resorting to the same thing with my nephew. We bought a Moses basket but he will only nap in that during the day, and only if he falls asleep on you first. At night, he will only fall asleep (strangely) across his nursing pillow on my stomach, and only on his side. I sleep propped up, hands on him at all times, and he is very securely stationed, face free of any bedding, etc., plus I’m a light sleeper. He wakes about every hour and a half to nurse. I’m still working on getting him to sleep in his bassinet….
Like my doctor said “you do what you have to do” for everyone to get some sleep…

I highly recommend putting her in a SwaddleMe sack, these worked extremely well for us and made a HUGE difference between very spotty and restless sleep vs. long, quality sleep. We have twins who are not yet six months old and now sleep ten hours solid every night, and have been sleeping through the night since about 10-12 weeks old. After spending almost a month in the NICU, they slept and napped at home mostly in bouncy seats for the first month or two, which our doctors encouraged as it kept them at a 45 degree angle to keep down acid reflux. They always slept more sound when tighly swaddled and snuggled into their seat. When they did stir in the night, a light bounce (without picking them up) would usually do the trick. Eventually, once they were asleep in the seat we would then move them into the crib (still in their swaddle). Since then, we’ve incorporated a rigid nightly routine, black-out curtains, sound machine, sometimes the fan for a light breeze, and a Woombie swaddle before going into the crib. All of these steps ensure a long night of rest and two very smiley, happy, well-rested babies at 7 a.m.! I should also note, they are breastfed babies. The last feeding of the night is given by bottle because 1) this is their ‘vitamin feed’ and 2) to ensure they are taking in enough ounces to last the night as well as 3) efficiency
Best of Luck!

When my daughter was born the hospital actually encouraged my daughter to sleep in the bed with me so I did that for the rest of the morning of her birth and again that night before we left the hospital. When we got home I put her in the crib that night and it just looked so cold and empty and after snuggling for two nights in the hospital I just couldn’t leave her in there all alone (and she was sleeping sort of restlessly anyways) so into our bed she went for a couple nights but daddy and I were finding we were restless and worried one of us (mostly daddy) would roll onto her or the blankets would unwittingly get pulled over her head. So we tried a couple different sleeper “baskets” of sort that baby lays in in-between mom and dad, those took up so much room our queen bed practically didn’t fit all of us. So back to the drawing board, we tried a bassinet a friend gave us, it was too big and bulky and took up too much room in our small house. We started to notice the girl slept most sound while napping in her boppy. So after a bit of online window shopping I found the Fisher-Price Rock-N-Play sleeper, it folded in half for daytime storage, was under $50 with a babies r us coupon and allowed my daughter to sleep safely while at a 30 degree incline. After that it was 8 hour nights of sleep ever night until she grew out of it. Also it was great for travel on road trips. Since transitioning her to the crib she has not slept the same since and 5 months into it we are still working on getting her to stay in the crib the entire night, she usually gets brought into bed with us about 5 hours into her night otherwise daddy and I don’t sleep.