My son Kyle is almost 3 months old and as of now he sleeps in a bassinet in my room and my husband and I are trying to get him to sleep in the crib in his room, as he is getting to long for the bassinet. Ive tried everything I can think of and all Kyle seems to want to do when i put him in his crib is scream. I have a moon mobile, a dolphin nightlight on his wall, i even got a baby music box thing that hooks to his crib. They work but only for a few minutes.....If anyone has some pointers I sure would appreciate it. Thanks
First you should put him in his crib for every sleep cycle ( to include all naps and bed time). Try playing music in his room. Something soothing like lullabies, jazz or classical. Good luck.
Can you fit the bassinet basket into his crib? I suggest this because I have heard that a baby may have a tough time transitioning from close quarters to the wide open. At least then he can get used to the new point of view before he gets the whole crib. I put a crib wedge in my son's crib, effectively cutting the bed area in half.
My other suggestions are, while still using the bassinet , to start a sleep routine and to consider using a Cuski (you can find one on Amazon). He still needs you for soothing. The routine could tell him it is sleep time, or you may have calm him with touch. My son liked to have his forehead stroked. He is a year and a half old and he sometimes still puts my hand to his head during wind down time.
Also, you may want to start with naps in his crib, then move on to night time sleep.
The key is to make a few things in his new environment, the same as the old environment. I had a mirror in both our daughter's bassinets, which I then moved to their crib once we transitioned them. They had a CD which they listened to as they went to sleep in the bassinet and then in the crib. We also have a sound machine to help out too. If there is anything that you can do to make the crib a familiar place it will help.
he may be reacting to all the extra room. what i did with my daughter when we moved her into her room at that age was that i put her up against the far side of the crib against the bumper. then i rolled a recieving blanket and put it in her open side. i also started with naps in her bed before i did all night there.
I had my son in a moses basket until he was six or seven months old. It took a while for him to transition to a crib...just because it was so much space. I started with naps and eventually he was sleeping in there at night.
Hello, You'll have to be consistant, have him take his naps in there as well as sleep in his crib every night. We bought our son a cd/radio player and I purchased a nice lullabies cd. It lasts longer than the mobiles and fish aquarium. It may take some time, but can be done. Best wishes..........
Warm his mattress before you put him on it. Place something in there that has your scent. Try putting him in the crib awake to play durning the day so he can get used to it and know it is a comfortable place to be.
You may have to stay with him for a while to get him used to it. Sit next to the bed with your hand through the bars and pat him gently. Do this for a few days then put him in and stand half way between the bed and door. After a few days stand at the door and then a few more days of that just put him in and leave.
When I got my DD sleeping in her own crib I would let her get almost asleep... as in eyes are barely able to stay open... then lay her down in the crib. If she woke up, I held her and let her get back to that verge of sleep and put her back in it... eventually she would be sooo sleepy that she couldn't stay awake to be angry about it. After she got used to that, I would put her in more and more awake until I was able to put her in as soon as I knew she was ready for sleep. :) Good luck!
Also, My DD hated being swaddled in the bassinet, but liked it to fall asleep in the crib. BUT I had to unwrap her when I went to bed, because if she woke up swaddled she was ANGRY! lol. She also wanted a "lovey" (even so young) so I got her a blankie buddy... It's small enough that I wasn't worried about suffocation, and I would steal it from her when I went to bed. She had a music box that hooked to the crib that didn't have much effect, but she LOVES the glo-worm and still likes it turned on when she's falling asleep (she's 6 months now) Target sells some that go for about 10 minutes once you turn it on, if you are interested in that... Some babies don't like the sound their mattress makes when they move (the rustle sound because most crib mattresses have some kind of plastic in them...) so you might try putting a blanket under the sheet to cut that out...
