Safety sleep not working - help!

Hmmm - I haven't had a problem since I started safety pinning Ashleigh's. Are you using a safety pin? And you do it up as tight as it will go? How is she escaping? I would LOVE to get rid of ours. Maybe you could try just leaving her and see if she does eventually fall asleep? At the moment it will be a novelty for her to be able to move around so maybe once she has fully explored she will realise it is boring and go to sleep?? Not that Ash does - I have tried a number of times and I think maybe twice she has gone to sleep. All other times she starts getting hysterical after 40 mins or so

Hi Anna

I had a little houdini as well although he never mastered undoing the safety pin. What a smart little cookie you have there.

I eventually decided right its time for my DS to go to bed without it (we had stopped using it at nightime and was just using it for his daysleep). I really didn't know how it would go, and also thought that he would not go to sleep. In saying this I have only been doing it since last Thursday and he has gone to sleep. The first day it took 1/2 hour but for the other 6 days he has been asleep within 10 mins. Admittedly not always the right way around in the cot, but it looks oh so cute. I just go in when he is asleep and cover him with a blanket.

Not sure if its much help but if they are tired they will sleep. I know I was pretty damn scared and put it off for so long. I'm glad I finally took the plunge.

I know what you mean Anna! This morning Ollie pushed out of his with his feet too.
Our problem is that he rolls in it and then wakes up stuck on his tummy. I keep holding off not using it so that he won't crawl all around in his cot and stand up.
He has a sleeping back but still moves around all over the show in that - I guess at least he is warm.
Mummy2ones post was encouraging. I guess sometime we will just have to take the plunge...

Paris did that, we used it till fairly late as she was a wriggly sleeper and would have fallen out of her big bed had we not used it.

It's a new thing, it's a novelty, she'll either think "hey i can do this, i'll keep doing it" or she'll be over it as soon as it started,
Try taking it off. If there isn't the focus on her doing this new exciting thing she's found she can do, maybe she might just go back to going to sleep again.. hopefully... although, i am really not sure how i can help. Paris just stopped doing it one day.

We have a sleeping bag and I wouldn't be without it anymore! I find Kaias sleeping has improved so much with it! Am going to try Emmas trick and use it for all sleeps too, that never occured to me!

And with the safety sleep thing, maybe it is time to give it up. Fighting with her will only frustrate you and annoy her. Quinn was a shocker and crawling around in his cot and standing up (not as early as 10 months tho!! Go Brenna) and after many fristrations I found the best way to deal with it was to put him to bed, make sure all was safe and leave him to it, he eventually fell asleep after playing.

We used the safety sleep until Charlotte starting wriggling round in it and undoing it I can't remeber how old she was. It was about the time she was learning to pull up on stuff around 9months?? In the end set aside a week where I didn't go anywhere and prepared for the worst!!!
She is a stubborn wee thing and it did take nearly a week for her just to be put down and let her do her thing til she fell asleep. I spent the first two days going in and lying her down when she stood up then thought stuff this you can work it out yourself!!
Now at 17months she has books and all her soft toys in bed with her and she just chats and reads until she falls asleep. Has been so much easier than having to cart safety sleep everywhere we go.
It is hard to take the plunge for these sorts of things as you worry it will stuff up all the hard work you have done. But if you prepare for a few hard days it will ususally be worth it or you could be like mummy2one and be pleasantly surprised how well it goes!!

Best of luck with whatever you decide to do, we are all here to support you with whatever you choose to do!!

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