I know some use co-sleepers, pack-n-plays or bassinets for the first few weeks or months. Did anyone use their cribs from the start?
Why did you chose to do that?
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We did! Maybe our third night home. The nursery is very close to our room, so we weren't worried about hearing him. Everyone slept better that way, and we never had to transition. We just made a little nest for him in the corner and swaddled him so he felt snuggly and not like he was in this big empty crib.
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DD1 was in the crib from day 2, first night she was in a bouncy seat next to me. I never wanted to use a bassinet, and we did not have a pack n play at first. I thought it would be crib from day 1, until I got her home and had to have her by my side constantly. So I slept in a recliner right in front of her crib. My thinking from the start was I wanted her in a space I knew was safe and nothing would hinder her sleeping.
DS #2 I put the pack n play on my side of the bed because I knew I would want him near. I moved him between 1-2 weeks old because he was such a loud sleeper.
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We started at 6 weeks. She wiggled too much in her bassinet and I didn't feel safe. It sucked for MOTN nursing sessions but she took to it easily and it took the pressure off future transitions. So, it wasn't RIGHT away but she was still tiny.
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I did!
We out her in the crib since she came home from the hospital. So like day 5? (We stayed an extra day bc she was jaundiced). We put her in the crib bc we thought we were supposed to. Just assumed all babies slept in cribs. Didn't know about the other options.
She was so small. We used to live in a townhome and the master bedroom was huge (all the other rooms were tiny) so half the masters was her nursery. So we "co slept" sorta with her in the crib, us on our bed, and in the same room.
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Yes, we did on day 6 or 7 (pack n play in our room until then). My husband heard some horror stories about kids never transitioning and co sleeping for life (lol, I think these men exaggerated a bit) and he wanted to try out having him in his own room. LO slept well in there and I liked having him in the crib so we could use his angelcare monitor.
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I didn't because I wanted to minimize the effort I had to make in the middle of the night! She slept in a cosleeper next to our bed. Her room/crib was no more than 10 feet away but it was so much easier to just pick her up, nurse her and put her back to bed without having to get up! She did get noisy so I switched sides with DH to have her closer to him instead because he sleeps like a rock. We didn't have an issue moving her to her crib though!
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We ended up moving #2 into her crib within 2 weeks I think. She was an extremely loud baby and I just couldn't sleep with her in our room. I was going crazy from being so tired, so I had to move her. After we moved her it was easy peasy from there.
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So with Lo1, I was all adamant he had to sleep in a crib from night 1. Stupid me. I can remember standing up next to his crib nearly falling asleep for months trying to do everything to get him to go to sleep. He had horrible sleep habits his first year, but did sttn solid in crib at 18 months thereafter.
Lo2 on the other hand has slept in her crib less than 5 times in her life (17 months) and is a fabulous sleeper. Go figure. But, if I try and out her in the crib at night, it's on. Naps are ok and sometimes she gets them in the crib at home. -
I did with my son! It worked well for us. We all slept well and there was a guest bed in his nursery that I would sometimes sleep in.
This time we are co-sleeping. We have a basinet (which she's never slept in) but no crib yet and I need my sleep way more this time since we have a toddler, so co-sleeping is working well!!
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Yup both my kids slept in their crib from day 1 and it worked well for us. They both sleep great! I wouldn't get any sleep if we co slept bc I wake up to their every movement. And another big reason we didn't co sleep was bc my bro co slept way too long with my mom! Haha didn't want that to happen to us. It was also nice to not have to do any crib transitions. So it worked well for us.
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Yes after the first night, we put our LO in the crib in his room. We all slept better and he has been a really good sleeper so far. He's turning one next month.
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He moves into his crib week 2 (well, a mic of swing and crib). He was a very restless and loud sleeper and I was not sleeping because I was worried over every little snuffle he made. My in laws came into town and took turns sitting in his room thr first few nights, which helped me ease into the idea.
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I put her in the bassinet we were given for exactly 10 minutes before moving her into her crib. She's slept in the crib for 70% of naps, and every single night since she's been home.
The crib is in our room so she isn't far away.
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We put her in the crib the first night we were home. Her nursery is just a half bedroom attached to the master so she was still close by. We didn't really have a choice because there wasn't really room in our room for any kind of bassinet and co sleeping was out because we sleep with two dogs. It's worked out really well though and she's a great sleeper.
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5 days old. We came home from the hospital on a Saturday and he was in his crib Monday night after clearing it with the ped.
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We used Rock n Plays but they were in the nursery. Could not sleep with them in our room!
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Yup! Used a rock n play in the nursery until he was less colicky, then put books under one side of his crib mattress so he could sleep at an angle. We all slept best this way!
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We were in the hospital for the first week, but about 1.5 weeks after being home we moved him into his crib (which I still consider to be from the beginning). I think it was an excellent decision for us because it taught him early on "this is where I sleep" and we definitely got better sleep. The earlier the better if you plan on doing it, though I TOTALLY understand why people keep them next to their bed for longer, I did grapple with the decision. You just have to weigh the pros and cons for both and make the right decision for you.
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We put her in her crib (in her room) within 2 weeks. She was jaundiced, so we stayed longer at the hospital, and then we put her in a rock n play in our room the first few nights. I think I actually worried about her more in the rock n play, though, so I was happy when we moved to the crib!
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@bluestriped bee: my mum and my sister did from birth and I plan to also. They put the crib beside their bed though and I plan on doing the same. A friend offered her bassinet to me for the first little while, but I think I will just stick with the crib for less transitions.
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Well of course we tried!!!! DD would only sleep in our arms, in a carrier, or on the boob.
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LO was in her crib (but in our bedroom, next to our bed) from night 1. We just did it because we are cheap and saw no need to buy multiple sleeping places and decorate an entire nursery with stuff she wouldn't be using for 6 months, and we knew she'd be in our room at first.
The changing pad and diapers/wipes/creams station was in our bedroom, too. At 6 months, we just moved the crib and changing station to LOs room.
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Yes! With my first, he came home after 8 days in the Nicu and we put him in his own room in his crib with the blessing of his nicu doctors and nurses. They weren't concerned about it at all, so I wasn't either. The nursery is right next to our room, and we all sleep better with our own space. We did the same with our second, and never had any issues. We don't even need a monitor because the rooms are so close.
I think if the nursery was on a separate floor from my room I would put a pack and play in our room for the first few weeks, for convenience more than anything. But otherwise I just don't think it is necessary. Our room isn't really big enough for another piece of furniture, and I am not on board with co-sleeping of any kind.
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It was my goal, but I couldn't get my son to fall asleep unless I transferred him, and then there was a high probability that he'd wake up.
I used motion to get my son to sleep for the first 5 weeks via a side to side rocking bassinett, then we transitioned him to the crib at 5 weeks...well, my mother did, not me, lol.
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We did! First night home. He was a great sleeper until at least 5mo
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@birdofafeather: ditto!
We kept both our girls in our room until they were pushing up in the cosleeper. Not having to get out of bed to feed the baby was invaluable to me. Granted both girls were very sleepy and were both quiet newborns, if we had had a grunter I would have moved them earlier. We never had trouble with the crib transition. -
We used a bassinet (the bassinet from our UBV) at first but had absolutely no trouble with the crib transition. I think the flat surface to flat surface helped. We also transitioned him to the crib while he was still swaddled and well before the 4mo regression (around 9 weeks if I recall correctly). I probably would have done the crib sooner, but I fractured my tailbone during delivery and it was invaluable to have him right there in our room for MOTN feedings.
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That was probably my intention... That went out the window at some point... Haha.
I think in the beginning it was just SO much easier to have her in our room b/c I had to feed her every 2 hrs (before she was back up to her birth weight). Her room is right next door, but to walk back and forth was just... No. Haha.
She still sleeps next to me at 8 mos~
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DD slept in our room in pnp until end of June when she was almost 6 months old.
She now is in her crib/room
In the beginning it is so easy to just pull her out of pnp plop her in our bed nurse her laying down and plop her back in pnp
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@snowjewelz: Just wanted to say I am a little jealous that you can co-sleep.....I am so fearful my anxiety wont let me sleep!
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@FaithFertility: grass is greener on the other side! we still can't "plop".. i mean we can but she has to be really asleep, so then in co-sleeping i save that time by just laying down with her, haha. my sleep does suck tho, b/c then i do hear every noise she makes (if i'm super tired i will prob sleep through some). plus i sleep all bent weird to accommodate her!
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@snowjewelz: ohhh I'm sure
I just wish I could do it sometimes
Ohhh the plopping is over with her too! For naps I have to stand over her crib and lower her down like a fork lift.....lol
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We did with both our kids. Neither of us would have slept well if we'd tried to co-sleep. We had borrowed a bassinet from my sister and that was in our room but it felt very temporary and we didn't see any reason not to get the baby into their own room and their own crib. Both my boys slept in their cribs every night and almost every nap from the time we came home from the hospital.
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We did because my husband was adamant about this one thing. He had bad sleep habits as a kid and thought we would start with the crib as one step to positive habits. It was super hard for me at first- all the fear and nerves! But we never had any transition issues so I am glad we did it?
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After reading through the other posts - the reason we didn't do some other options:
My kids were both noisy sleepers and with them in the next room with the monitors, we didn't wake at every grunt, only when they woke up to feed.
Pnp - we didn't have one at first, and the ones we have now don't have that special part at the top so you don't have to reach in. It would be more of a pain reaching deep into the crib to get baby out than to go into the next room.
Rnp - just never needed it with my first, he slept well in a crib, and the second didn't like the ones we tried. We don't own one.
Co-sleeper - probably would have tried this but we didn't own or borrow one.
Bassinet - we borrowed one but there was nothing special about it and my first rolled over while swaddled when he was a few days old and got his face mooshed into the side. Scary. -
@FaithFertility: hahahaha yeah that's what we have to do too!
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We didn't because I was afraid to have her sleep that far away and I didn't want to "wake" completely up every time I fed her during the night. She was in our room, in a pack and play, until about 6 months old.
ETA: we moved her when she was too big for the top part of the pnp. She slept in the newborn holder, then in the top part, so I didn't have to lean all the way. When she hit the weight limit, that's when we switched her.
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Yes, we did. She slept in her crib from the very first night at home. (Our house is small and her room is right across the hall--if both bedroom doors are open, my husband can see her crib from his side of the bed!)
It wasn't always easy, but it worked best for us. When she went through bouts of congestion (she was born in January) we'd put her in the rock and play for a few nights, but she was in the crib for the most part.
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After the first 4 nights none of us could sleep in the same room so he was off to his crib.
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