Putting Baby in Own Bed

My son would wake up as soon as we laid him in the crib too. We got a heartbeat bear. He would still wake a little but once he heard the heartbeat he went back to sleep.

I co-slept until they were about a year old, so I didn't have this problem. But, when I wanted to stretch out and have the bed to myself, I moved the baby to the crib while he very sleepy or already asleep. Also, nap times in the crib should hopefully help the baby feel comfortable there.

Dr. Sears has some great advice on this though:
http://www.askdrsears.com/topics/sleep-problems

* edited to add: As far as co-sleeping concerns, there are risk factors and some situations in which it is not safe. When I co-slept we made sure that none of these risk factors were present. Just do the research to see if it is something safe for your situation.

id start with nap time personally and see if you can move up the feeding before bed to just get her drousy and then put her in her bed with some soft music and let her listen to it and fall asleep or even get a little crib toy for her bed, and just make sure she has her needs met, it may be a little easier for her bed to be in your room until she can sleep in her bed without much trouble for a week or two solid and then put her in her bed

We did the same with my daughter. When we moved her to her room she would scream until she threw up. What I did is I would stay in her room with her until she fell asleep. This was a nightly thing, and I honestly can't remember when I finally stopped. I too do not believe in the cry it out thing. We actually had a twin bed in her room as well as the crib. At first I would stay by her crib until she fell asleep and then I layed on the twin until she fell asleep. Eventually she was fine and I didn't have to do that anymore.

She might be used to you being right there... you might have to take this in stages. From in the bed to in the pack in play next to your bed to crib.

You can try to rub her back when she wakes up before taking her out of the crib. I also noticed that when the room was pitch black my son would wake up screaming but with a nightlight he goes back to sleep.

Also when she wakes up in the middle of the night is she crying or just fussing a bid. I swear my son sometimes wines in his sleep. I know by how long he does it for, its usually around a minute if he is still actually sleeping so I don't go in there. If I go in there too soon he wakes all the way up and its over. It took sometime but I now can tell by the way he sounds if I need to go in there to comfort him or if he is just adjusting in his sleep/slightly awake for a moment.

I don't know if your dd uses pacifiers at night but a LIFESAVER for us was to put like 5 in there with him so he could find one in the middle of the night.

Hi P. -

The same thing happened with us, we got a crib when our daughter was about 8 mos old. It was a rough transition, and we were doing a lot of things wrong, like waiting until she was waaay beyong tired to put her to sleep. That made the transition to her sleeping 'alone' worse, I now see. (the crib was at the foot of our bed). Neerja is right, it is a transition that will take time. I just answered another post with this reference, but Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child changed our parenting lives. It might be helpful for you too. Lone-sleeping is a different pattern than co-sleeping, and both are good for the child. At a time like this, we all just need some more info/help to learn how to parent your baby through this transition.

Not that I care what others do because truthfully why do I have a right to tell someone else how it live their life but this is exactly what I would be afraid of if I co slept. Personally I think its too dangerous of a risk for me to be willing to take (co-sleeping) but I remember asking a question a few months ago that was about this very topic - just out of curiosity as to how ppl who choose to co-sleep go about breaking that habit when they are ready for baby or child in many cases to sleep on their own.
I hope all works out for you and sorry I dont have any advice but maybe you can look up the question I asked to see some of those answers
Good Luck

Do you mean that your DD is only 7mos old???

If that's the case, I had my son in a swing until about 8mos old next to our bed and then for a little while, he was in a pack n play in our room... Slowly we got him into his own crib while still AWAKE (just after a feeding and changing).

We got the schedule down right after he'd gotten into his own crib in his own room.

If he'd cry and he was JUST fed/changed, I'd bounce the crib mattress just a hair to give the feeling of walking... He'd go right to sleep. If he woke up 2-4hrs after being fed/changed, I knew he would need another feeding/changing before lying him back down.

Dear P.,

You will need to practice letting your baby sleep in her crib, please give this time, so both of you can get used to it in a few weeks, start with nap times first, nurse her in her room and then put her in her crib. If she cries, give her a few minutes to settle down, keep increasing that interval by 2 minutes each day. Please put a CD with soft music/ Ocean sounds/lullabuys near her crib, and use it as her sleeping routine/ritual.

I am sure it's going to be hard initially for you, be strong and consistent. I am sure your husband will like/appreciate it if the baby sleeps in her crib.

PS: It takes 21 days to form a new habbit or let go off an old one

You have been doing it this long. Why dont you just wait until you wean her?