Baby Sleep

I have an early childhood degree and have seen videos on what to do in this situation. You need to put him in there to sleep at naptime and bedtime. You and your husband need to leave the room and let him cry for awhile. It will be hard and you may be up for several nights. So, maybe start on a weekend if you don't work. There are some children who throw up but they can make themselves do this so you will fell bad. Sometimes they show situations like this on the TLC channel where a specialist comes into the home and helps the parents do this. Eventually, he will get used to his crib and will sleep in it.

My sister did the same thing with my niece. She eventually, around 3 or so learned to sleep in her own bed in her own room, although she never slept in the crib, my sister wasn't persistent enough. Putting your 9 month old in the crib for 10 minutes at a time will not hurt, eventually he will stop crying. My mom always said the older they are, the harder it becomes for them to learn something new. So hang in there.

When we moved to a new house we had the babies crib in our room and he NEVER slept well. We decided to put him in his own room and THAT night he slept the whole night. HE did cry for a bit the first week or so before falling asleep, but now, a year later, he will only sleep by himself.

Good for you for listening to your baby's needs when he was sick and keeping him close by. Babies like to be close to their parents. Babies sleeping next to a parent have calmer respiration rates.

So my question would be, how do you feel about your current sleeping arrangement? I doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. If it's working for you, your hubby and your baby at this time, why stop?

Also, take into consideration that new research is out and it has found that babies left alone to cry can suffer brain damage. Their cortisal levels in the brain rise to dangerously high levels. I'm not trying to scare here, and it seems like you are just doing your best with what you know. But if something I was considering for my baby could possible cause brain damage, I'd want to know.

And...I saw on another post that someone said that babies will throw up to make you feel bad. If your baby becomes so upset to be throwing up, that's sad. Do you like to throw up? What baby would throw up just to play some sort of mind game with you? Babies can't manipulate, they don't know how until their toddlers. Babies cry for needs!

So, consider why you want to make a change first, if you still feel led to move him to his crib, that's fine, just try to do it lovingly.

And the thing about throwing up wasn't directed at you, I just felt compelled to respond.

i think you are doing the right thing by taking the steps as you are, being gradual. i do not agree with the person who said that babies don't know how to manipulate. of course they do! they cry to make you pick them up. they will be fussy when going to bed if they don't want to, especially if they learned by experience that you'll rush to them if they make a peep.
i think that your young child is going through a good deal of stress from the move and that he may just need to aclamate to his new environment.
my son, also nine months, didn't suffer an illness, but for purposes of breastfeeding, i brought him to bed with me for a couple of months. when i tried to put him back in his crib, it was difficult for a few months, but he got used to it.
all it takes is time and patience.