Moving from Bassinet to Cot....

So.. the time has come where our son needs to be moved into his cot. His cot is in his room but he has been sleeping in his Bassinet in our room since he was born.

If his cot was in our room it wouldnt be a problem.. but i know he has to sleep in his own room at some stage.

So how did everyone deal with this and get over it ? I keep putting it off and even shed the little tear thinking about it...stupid i know

DP suggested trying a day nap there and she slept really well, and then after a couple of days we had her sleeping there day and night, I really missed her! But listened over the monitor for her and she adjusted really well!

Completely not stupid! You've been pregnant with them for 9 months and then shared your room with them!

I just moved Tom into his cot on Tues and he had his first night alone in his room last night (on Tues night I chickened out and after 3 hrs moved him back into our room for the night). you would think because it was #2 it would be easier- but nope, it still took me ages to fall asleep thinking about him. If I could have put in our room I would have, but it wouldn't fit.

I didn't worry about him too much during the night through, as I still had to get up to him about 4 times during the night 

 

With Ella I had nightmares for the first 2 nights of moving her, but after that I was fine.

 

For both kids, I think the move was harder on me than it was on them- just both adjusted fine.

Oh it's hard isn't it! One thing i'm looking forward to with #2 is having that cariboo in the corner of our room again.

What worked for us was to have day naps in the cot, and night sleeps in our room, and that helped with the transition for both mum and bub.

I've never owned a baby monitor so I admit to checking on him a few times in the first month. softie huh!!

I did it the wrong way. Absolute wrong way. I waited till he was too big for the bassinet before moving him - he was too big at 4mths old! (No room for cot in our room).

So I put him in his new cot and his new room and he was terrible at getting to sleep for about a week.

I would recommend putting the cot in your room and then gradually easing into the new room. Or vice versa. Bassinet into the new room. Try and do it gradually.

What helped in to settle eventually was a few things: blackening out the blinds (he was used to drapes around the bassinet and the cot didn't have that), a muslin cloth that smelled of me, and because he was used to us rocking him in the bassinet, we pat him to sleep instead (eventually did the Sleep Sense Programme coz that didn't end up working well). We also used white noise and got rid of stimulating things eg. cot mobile.
It was just so stimulating for him being in a new room and new cot and unfamiliar so those things helped him to settle in and be less stimulated.

It is hard isn't it. When we moved DS into his own room, he was only 6 weeks old, but I could see and hear him from my bed and we kept him in his bassinet to start with. After 8 weeks, we ended up moving him into his cot, as it was too hot in his bassinet and he kept hitting his arms on the sides.
We all slept better after the first few worrying nights, until the first night he slept right through. He was only 3 months old and I freaked out when I woke up and it was the morning. I think we'll never stop worrying about our babies, no matter what age they are.

Ollie moved into his cot three nights ago........he's just gone 5 weeks - which is pretty good considering he was never going to be in our room at all! then we had him and i couldn't do it!! he he.
In the end he got too noisy with his windy grunting and so much broken sleep for us ( which creates a crying mummy!!) so we decided to put him in his own room so we could tag team the nights if necc.
In the end we've all slept better! we don't lay awake with his noises wondering if he's waking up or not!!

It was really weird going to bed without him in the room the first night, felt a little teary! it was as if he didn't exist! was it all a dream?!?! but a good night sleep fixed that! he he