Can You Move Your Sleeping Kids?

My oldest will wake at the slightest movement, always has! My youngest is a medium sleeper. I can sometimes move him depending on tired he is and how long he has been asleep.

My oldest I could pretty much haul anywhere. I could change his diaper and put him in pjs and he wouldn't stir. With my youngest it was totally opposite. For a long time, he would only fall asleep if he was held and rocked. Everytime he went out I would try to get up and lay him in the crib. Every time was a no-go, lol! He would wake up at the very first micro-movement I would make, and we would be back at square one with the rocking. If he did happen to fall asleep in the car or on the floor playing, he could not be moved at all or sleep would be completely over.

I can move my kids at night time, sometimes I go in at night and wake them up just because they are sooo cute and they will immediately fall back asleep. Although naptime was a different story. I hated when they fell asleep in the car just before nap, because when I would bring them in, they would be awake. Sometimes, I would leave my son buckled in the car in the garage to finish his nap.

I didn't use to be able to until my sister told me to wait 15 minutes after they fall asleep and move them. It's worked with all four so far! I do have to make sure to not go longer than 20 minutes, though, or else it won't work and they'll wake up. But there is a window 15-20 minutes after they go to sleep where almost every can be moved and not wake:-)

Mine doesn't nap, but I could never move her when she was napping either. Now she often falls asleep at night on the couch & I can easily move her (she's 5)

I'm with you on this one. I have to let him stay asleep wherever he passed out if I want him to stay asleep. I'm so jealous of people who's kids fall asleep in the car and they are able to carry them in and lay them down. I've never been able to do that!

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Geez...I feel sorry for you! I can move my daughter anywhere. She is 7 now, and I can barely lift her, so so etimes, she will actually help me lift so I can get her from the car to the house and then to the bathroom to pee, brush teeth and stagger off to bed where she is out within seconds of hitting the pillow. We travel a lot on the weekends for my husband's business, and often come home late. When she was much smaller, I would lift her out of the carseat, carry her in to the house, lay her down, put a pull up on her, change her into jammies, and BRUSH HER TEETH, and she would never wake up! We have never tip toed around when she was sleeping, and spend a lot of time at racetracks so she can sleep through about anything! (even camped out at 24 hour Daytona race 4 months before she was born, and went to 12 hour Sebring race 2 weeks before she was born)

oooh my!!! i'm lucky!!!

All of my kids were movable!!! TOTALLY!!! Out like lights....they are just too big and heavy now to move!!! :)

Sooooo sorry to hear your daughter is on the light end of the spectrum!!!

i could move mine without them waking, but we co sleep until age 3 so me being there next to them eased them back into their z's.

My daughter sounds similar to yours. She's almost 5 now and I've never really been able to move her while she was sleeping without her completely waking up, even when she was a baby. She's never really been one to sleep anywhere other than her bed though. She's only fallen asleep on the couch 2 or 3 times and that's been when she was really sick. For the most part, she stopped sleeping in the car when she was about 10 months old. She won't even sleep in the car on long trips. She actually falls asleep in the car about 2-3 times a year, usually at the end of a full and busy day like Thanksgiving or Christmas when we've been out visiting family around town. As soon as we get home and start to get her out of the car she wakes up and then the struggle is on trying to get her to bed.

She can be a pretty light sleeper sometimes too. I always go in her room to check on her when I'm going to bed and sometimes she wakes up when I lean over to kiss her head.

I move my 2 1/2 yr old all the time. Sometimes I'll kiss her goodnight in the bed, come back in when I go to bed and she's on the floor lol. A lot of times she's stubborn about naps so we go for a car ride and I move her from the car seat to the bed. There are a few times when I can't pick her up or she'll wake up for some reason, but almost all the time I can move her. If she falls asleep in the car, I just have to call my mom to hold her dog so the dog doesn't bark and wake her up.

From what I've seen it has to do with finding how you lie her down. My dad brought her out of the truck one day sleeping and put her on her stomach, bad move... she woke up and nap was over. I have to put her on her back. Put her feet down first, legs down slowly second, but rush a little to put her head on the pillow, and then pause for about 5 secs and then she'll stay asleep. I don't know why, but if I don't do it like that she wakes up.

My baby did this from about 6 months on until about 2 years of age.
I hated it!
It got to where it if fell asleep in his jog stroller I'd leave him in there for his nap.
I will say for me...........it did get better once he got older.
So what I did was worked w/whatever I KNEW would work FOR him.
So if he fell asleep in his stroller, I'd leave him in there for his little nap.
If he fell asleep in his swing, I'd leave him in that for his short nap.
He went through a stage where I COULD NOT MOVE him so I stayed on the couch w/him in my arms.
I wanted him to get his sleep so I made sure I had the remote w/i arm's reach. lol
I needed my peace and quiet every once in awhile. :)

I have never been able to move my son when he is sleeping. Up until recently I could not even get him to fall asleep anywhere besides home. I was always soooo jealous of my friends who got to travel or stay late at get togethers because they could just put their kid down in a spare bedroom!

I can put my son's pjs on and then move him into his own bed with out him waking up. If he does wake up its usually just a tiny bit and he is back to sleep before his head hits the pillow. Love it!!

If I move my daughter she wakes up still in a dazed sleepy state, but if she is really tired she has always fallen back to sleep when I set her in bed (or crib when she was younger).

When she was younger she rarely fell asleep at church, while other kids/babies her age would zonk out. My daughter is sensitive to sound and is has to be quiet for her to sleep well, light sleeper, so I do the best I can ;)

I've never been able to move any of my kids w/out waking them up but they go right back to sleep when I lay them down.

most of the time i can move my two yr old daughter no problem after she is asleep but when she falls asleep with me out of her crib she is usually cuddeling anyways so its easy to move to a position i can pick her up in and move her and most of the time she stirs some but never fully wakes up i also mastered changing her diaper when she was totally asleep without waking her up as well

Four of my six kids could sleep through the rapture. I'm not kidding. Their Daddy is currently moving two of them into the livingroom to sleep for the night (A/C, AND it's father's day so he and I get special "no kids in the bedroom" privileges! hehe!).

My other two wake up if you so much as breathe in their general direction. Luckily, they'll go back to sleep IMMEDIATELY, so it isn't a huge deal.

At nap time, nope!! Bedtime, usually we can, or they'll wake up and fall right back asleep. I'm really thankful for this at night, but I really wish if they fell asleep in the car during the day that I could move them into bed without fuss.

Mine is in the middle. Some days I could lug him around everywhere and others where if I looked at him wrong he would wake up.
But for me, I do have to wait till he is completely out before moving.

nope and they are 6. I always tried to consul myself that maybe htey were at less of a risk for sids than those deep deep dead to the world sleepers.

Depending on how deep in the sleep and how comfy he is it's either way. Rarely does he FULLY wake up but if I catch him at "just the right" moment we are golden to be moved.

As long as I didn't try to "sneak", I could move my son as much as I liked. In carseats, out of carseats, out and about, up/down... I could, as you say, practically juggle the boy.

HOWEVER... If I tried to do things "slowly", quietly/tiptoe kind of thing... POP his eyes would snap open and sleep would be done for. It took me awhile to realize that he was pretty tuned into what 'normal' was/felt like... so I learned not to sneak. Apparently, sneaking meant something 'interesting' was going to happen.

He's 8 now, and it's pretty much the same. If I just send him off to bed or tuck him in... he's great. I can run dishes, have people over, grand parade... and he sleeps right through. If, however, I've shut off the lights and am trying to slip upstairs to bed without waking up (my lightsleeper) husband... Poof. Like magic, I hear two little feet hit the ground and the door opens, and his head pops out. "What's going on mom?"

I hate to tell you this, but my son can be moved anywhere. He falls asleep in restaurants, in the car, in the stroller, etc. and can always be moved to his bed. I have literally changed him (underwear/diaper and all) while he is asleep without any waking. He is almost 5 and still does it too! I don't know if it has anything to do with the fact that as a baby we had a chaotic schedule that rarely had us home (which meant he had to learn to sleep anywhere/everywhere) or not, but I am hoping number 2 is the same for me! Maybe the next time around for you...

mine totally depends on how tired he is. when he was little (super little) he would fall asleep in the car and we could put him in his crib (like up to a few months old). mostly now he either doesn't fall asleep in the car, or as soon as we stop, he wakes up. on the other hand, we just got back from vacation, and on the drive home we stopped at a hotel. it was blistering hot and the air wasn't cooling the room, so after he'd been asleep almost an hour, they finally got us another room, and i picked him up and carried him there, and he never even stirred. he was exhausted. i wish it was that easy every time :) but he's 4, and a big boy, so mostly if i need to move him now, he wakes easily and walks on his own.

my daughter only sleeps in her bed, so if she's fallen asleep somewhere else, like the car, it's because she's super, super tired, and generally, if she wakes up on her way to her bed, it's just enough to put her arms around my neck and she's back out as soon as she's laid down.