Moving from basenette to cot

I didn't move Spencer until 4.5 months I hadn't wanted to move him till 6 months but he out grew his bassinet (his bassinet was in our room but his cot was too big to fit in with us). At around 3 months Spencer learnt to plant his feet in the floor and push himself up which would result in him ramming his head into the top of the bassinet so I bought a safety sleep that keeps him pinned to the bed. I love my safety sleep and wouldn't be without it now cos he means he can't roll around the cot etc and he knows it is a sleep cue. Antoher good thing would be to use a sleeping bag that should stop the legs between the bars scenario.

For the actual change I did it at the night sleep as he always goes down for his night sleep better than his day ones and had no issue at all he just went to sleep and slept the same amount as usual and then was fine for the day ones the next day as well.

We had a smallish bassinette so our girls were moved into the cot at about 6 weeks. Didn't have any problem with legs/bars.

Jack moved in to his cot at 6 1/2 weeks cos the bassinett we borrowed was quite small and he kept pushing up and touching his head at the top and waking up!

We have a safety sleep which I swear by for peace of mind (bought it off TM secondhand) and also short-sheet the bed so if the safety sleep wasn't on, he wouldn't be able to wriggle down anyway. We started off putting him when I was getting him dressed from early on so he knew it was a good place to be, then from about 4 1/2 weeks when I knew he wasn't going to last much longer in his small bed I started popping him in there for day sleeps. At 6 1/2 weeks he started sleeping in there all the time which was hard for me at first but now he sleeps more soundly as he has more room. So far we've had no problems with bars etc because of the safety sleep and short-sheeting the bed.

Keziah (4 months 1 week) is still in her motion sway basinette which is hanging inside her cot at the moment which will hopefully make it easier when we make the transition across.. we have a safe t sleep for once she's in her cot too, so hopefully our wee Houdini wont end up between the rails
Also, Keziah is a small baby and is only now getting to big for it.. she would of had a heck of a time in a HUGE cot LOL

Edited by Neeks

We never had a bassinette, Lily was in the cot from day one. We also never had a safetysleep - but we did have a wedge and that was enough to keep her in one place until about 3 weeks ago. Now she crawls round the cot until she has had enougha nd decides to sleep