Rock and play to crib transition

spin25 · May 2014

Well, actually RNP to PNP for now, but whatevs. Any tricks to it, or did you basically just quit the RNP cold turkey? I can't think of any way around that but I thought I'd check. Luckily DD sleeps in her crib just fine for the most part, but DS does not. We had six wake ups in ten hours last night and he won't nap today with the exception of a car ride we took solely for napping purposes. I might lose my mind here soon.

spin25 · May 2014

Also, did anyone do it in conjunction with sleep training?

carcrashheart · May 2014

we started transitioning around 4 months. i worked on naps first in the PNP (which was a mobile PNP, so smaller). then when he was good with that we added bedtime. but then he went through the wakeful period and he was better in the RNP, so we went back to it for everyone's well being. we were nomads and living between 3 different places from 6-8 months and i didn't want to transition him until he could be in the same home, same crib, every day. once we did it the second time he went right to sleep the first time we put him down and we ended up having no trouble going straight to the crib. he was 8 months by then.

we did sleep training at exactly 9 months, so he was well adjusted to the crib. sleep training took 3 days.

carcrashheart · May 2014

also, i would not do both at the same time. pick one and go with it. wait until they are adjusted for a good while. then do the other. too much at once is just too much change.

spin25 · May 2014

carcrashheart said:

also, i would not do both at the same time. pick one and go with it. wait until they are adjusted for a good while. then do the other. too much at once is just too much change.

That's kind of what I thought, thanks.

alexisanna44 · May 2014

If cold turkey doesn't work you could try elevating the mattress to see if that would be a happy medium. Kind of less like being held but still not flat on his back.

caseyandlizzie · May 2014

We tried the elevated mattress, it didn't help, we tried swaddling him in the crib, that failed. We ended up rolling up receiving blankets and tucking those in around him when we put him in his crib, then gradually stopped packing them in as tightly around him. Once he didn't flail around and scream as if he were on fire when we set him in his crib, we started sleep training and he did really well with that.

Good luck, and I hope it goes well. We did have a few nights before we sleep trained where he absolutely would not go back to sleep in his crib so I caved and put him back in his rnp. Do what works for you.

spin25 · May 2014

Thanks ladies. DS has been sick so we haven't made any more attempts. Hopefully next week...and hopefully it goes better than our first attempt, but I won't count on it.

PinkinProvence · May 2014

Pretty much cold turkey. They basically grew out of the RNPs and I didn't feel safe with them in it anymore. I think they might have slept a little more soundly in the RnPs since they were cuddled up, but they will still sleep fine in the cribs with perhaps one extra wakeup.

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