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1. We transitioned R from the RNP to her crib when she started rolling back to belly at 15 weeks. We elevated the mattress in her crib and made a little nest so it was like a RNP and then lowered it over the course of two weeks until it was flat. We also transitioned from swaddles to sleep sacks at the same time. She hated sleeping on a flat surface as a newborn, but did fine when we put her in the crib.

2. I nursed to sleep for a long time even though I knew I shouldn't. I didn't want to mess with a good thing. Eventually it stopped working though so we had to figure something out. She was waking up as soon as she was put down and screaming. Instead of nursing and going right back to sleep in the middle of the night she was up for an hour or more. DH and I took turns rocking her and we were exhausted. She was 10 months old so we sleep trained. We did CIO with checks and it only took 2 nights. She still nurses last thing before going to sleep, but she's still awake when I put her in her crib. She started sleeping through the night a couple weeks later.

1. We transitioned from the RNP to a bassinet at around 2 weeks old. Both were in our room. The bassinet was a rocking one and we elevated the head for about a week until he was used to sleeping on a flat surface. I would also gently rock the bassinet after he was in it to make sure he stayed asleep. We started the bassinet at night because, like yours, he was already a pretty good sleeper at night. Eventually he slept in the bassinet for naps too. At about 2.5 months, we moved him to the crib for night sleep, but he was still in the bassinet or RNP for naps.

2. Drowsy but awake did not work for me until my baby was much older, like 6 or 7 months, and he could move around to settle himself better in the crib at night. I fed him until he was fully asleep, before putting him in the crib, and if he awoke during the transfer, I rocked/shushed him until he was asleep again. Eventually, the feeding/rocking/shushing was not getting him asleep anymore and I would lay him in the crib drowsy and he would roll around/squirm until he fell asleep, but, like I said, he was much older than your baby is now.

3. Once my baby was taking more regular 3-4 naps a day, maybe around 4 months, with the last nap ending around 6pm, we moved his bedtime to earlier, like 8:30 and he would have longer stretches of night time sleep too.

I wouldn't worry too much about creating bad habits or the future. Do what you need to now to get you all the most sleep, and worry about changing things when it is no longer working best for you.

I started transitioning from nursing to sleep to putting her down drowsy around 6m. Before that I always nursed her to sleep and rocked for a minute or two before putting her down. I went back to work at 7 months and DH took over the parental leave so I had to stop nursing to sleep so he could get her down for naps.

We didn't use a RnP. We had her in a small cradle for the first 3 weeks and then made transition to crib. It took about a week. For the first few days I just put her in crib for naps. Then I started putting her in the crib at night after her early morning feed and then eventually all the time. It worked for us. Good luck!