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    Posted: 17 July 2010 at 6:35am
Hi there,

For those who used a baby hammock, what age did you transfer to a cot?

I was really hoping to get 6 months out of the hammock, but Roo's starting to look a bit squished up in it and *don't laugh* I'm worried I might deform his legs if they're restricted by the hammock. He's 62.5cm and weighs nearly 7kg.
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I ended up switching Cooper at 4 1/2 months when he was rolling from back to tummy. He was 69cm at 5 months so probably only a little bit less than that when I transferred him. I was thinking he wouldn't have too much longer spacewise then too but I thought he was ok at the time. But then again, he often slept with his feet together and knees up, so maybe that was why.
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M'Moo, I'm really in denial about Nina having to move to the cot soon!
She's a bit fatter than Roo but about the same length but fits fine atm because of her harness. So she's probably only 50cm long .
Because her legs are so wide apart can't button it up anymore. Is it an option for you to save his straight legs ? Nina never wriggles down or anything but that may be due to the harness.
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We only used the hammock for day sleeps downstairs and stopped using it at 4 months. He was getting too long for it.
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Wow Mum2H... I didn't realise Nina was in a hammock with her harness. That's pretty cool

Hummmmmm looks like I really need to work on this self settling ASAP. I'm dreading the transfer to the cot.

Can I ask those who have used hammocks..... did your baby still require to be be 'rocked' in the hammock to settle them, or did it get to a point where you could just lie them in the hammock and they'd go to sleep?

If I put Roo in a cot just now, he'd scream the house down!

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Nina doesn't like being rocked. She smothers her left side of the face into the mattress, that's what she needs .
So we have a similar problem. I tried Nina in the cot but she just screams her head off because there's nothing going 'up the side' where she can smother her face into....
Man, I've got a seriously weird baby

What does Roo do if you don't rock him? Work himself into a right state?
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Yup..... I've been trying the self settling and have manged to get it down to a gentle 'shuggle' rather than a full on bounce, and I only do it for up to 1min at a time and most times it only takes 1 or two attempts. It's frustrating because he's so close, but if I just left him, he'd get sooooo worked up and I just can't let him CIO.

Roo sleeps like that two....snuggles right into the mattress
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I went back to rocking to sleep, which I only stopped 2 weeks ago as it was nice and easy for us, but thought it was time I started working on self settling as he's still waking in the night heaps. So we're down to patting and shushing now.

Actually, come to think of it I was feeding to sleep at the time and he'd wake a little which is when I'd rock the hammock but when we went in the cot I'd just do shushing and patting. Maybe cause I'd been using the hammock for day and bassinette for night and then transitioned out of the bassinette to the cot at night first, so he was already kind of used to it?
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Thanks for that. I've heard quite a few people mention the patting.

The irony is that he's an excellent sleeper *touch wood* and sleeps 11/12 hrs per night (straight through) so he must do some sort of self settling during the night?

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we always made him settle himself so we had no problems with transferring. we moved him randomly at about 6 weeks cos we needed to change and wash the cover on it and he slept through the night so we left him there at home. we had him in it until about 6 months old when we went out for the evening and left him with friends or we all went away somewhere etc.. he looked a wee bit squishy but it didnt seem to bother him


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