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In the R&P pretty much from day one she would go to bed between 9 and 10 and wake up once over night and then up at 7ish. At three months we started naps in the crib. DDis a terrible napper and nothing changed so pulled the plug for nighttime. It was a disaster into battles to get her down and up 3-5+ times a night. We gave up and put her in a regular flat bassinet in our room and sleep improved slightly but never returned. Now at 5 months we got her in her crib in her room. there is the occasional night she revisits her one wake up but most nights are around 3 wake ups. Still wAiting to bounce back! (Sorry if I don't have the most successful story!)

We moved her at 8 weeks from the RNP to her crib. We just pulled the plug one night because she was such a noisy sleeper we weren't getting any sleep. So I swaddled her like I always did and let her fall asleep on me and moved her in the crib. She had no problems at all and continued sleeping through the night.

I made several posts on this in the last few months because we were dealing with this too.

We tried moving him to the crib around 12 weeks. We started by moving his RnP to his room. He slept there for 3 nights just like normal. Then we started the crib transition with nighttime sleep. We used a crib wedge and also used towels to make a "snugglenest." We tried it for 3 nights and made no progress towards decent sleep. So we changed the plan to naps only, and nighttime sleep still in the RnP. His naps were at least decent, so we stuck with naps in the crib and nighttime in the RnP for a while. He just didn't seem ready for crib at night.

Sometime around 17 weeks or so he seemed to be getting increasingly uncomfortable in the RnP, so we tried the crib again at 18 weeks, and it worked! He slept even better in the crib than he had been in his RnP for the last few weeks before that. I was worried for a very long time about making sure I transitioned him early enough, but we really just made it harder on ourselves because he had his own schedule and transitioned beautifully once he was ready!

DS1 transitioned to crib in swaddle at 16 weeks. Swaddle weaned a few weeks later once he was rolling.

DS2 tried to transition at 4m and it was bad. Up every 30 min bad. He is a spitter upper not sure if that was why. So we waited a month and put him in the crib swaddle free cold turkey. One really bad night but was more or less back to normal sleep in a few nights.

Following.... Our 4 month old is still in the RNP.