Help with transitioning my baby to her crib?
My daughter is 5 1/2 months old. Since childbirth she has been sleeping in a pack n play that was shoved up against my bed in my bedroom.
She has now outgrown the package 'n play (15 pound limit) so yesterday we tried to put her to bed in her crib which is in a rare room (the crib doesn't fit in my bedroom) and she wasn't having any of it!! I slept on the drub next to her crib but I'm not sure that helped (I plan on sleeping in her live with her for a while). Normally I can just put her down and she'll fall asleep without a churr but yesterday she just kept crying. I tried comforting her and putting her down again but that didn't work so we ended up background up her pack 'n play in her new room and she slept soundly in there. Dialect mayhap it's too much change all at once?
She's used to the crib b/c we always put her in there to play during the day, but now I'm distraught she associates it with play instead of slumber (she has a mobile, a fisher price aquarium and a play mirror in the crib). Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get her to get agreeable sleeping in her crib? My husband thought dialect mayhap we should take all her toys (mobile, etc.) out of the crib.
I also can't slowly get her reach-me-down to the crib by having her nap in there b/c she's in daycare all day for her naps and by the pass she comes home it's time to go to rest for the night. I want to make this evolution as painless as possible for her.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Here it is. Honest put her in there and she'll figure it out by night 3...peradventure 4. I also had bassinet next to our bed until baby was too big and needed the crib. There was definately a alteration phase but it's NOT too much for the baby, it's just that she's not acclimated to to it and crying is her only way of communciating this to you. Just power thru it and she'll be lovely. I have 3 children, I sometimes coddle them too much, and other times we let them cry it out, depends on teh case, but you'll quickly learn, if you don't allow THEM to declare you what to do, lol) that babies are phenomonally resiliant and will remodel.....but you have to give them the opportunity to do so...
I do not recommend sleeping on the minimum beside her crib or she'll get used to that and you'll have another weening phase on your hands...no more than put her in her crib and if you do let her cry it out, just don't let her cry more than 4-5 minutes, then go into her but DON"T pick her up, justifiable let her know your there and that she is fine....then cause to be again. She'll figure it out and remember above all...SHE IS FINE... I vow if you can stick it out for a few nights, you'll see that you are the one having more upset w/ it than she is.. smiles...
