https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:39:22 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631446 Tue, 04 Oct 2016 01:26:12 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2631446@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have actually found the swing to be more soft and comforting yhan the RNP. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631392 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:13:20 +0000 Eko 2631392@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: also it got really frustrating at times because it wasn't going as quickly as I liked, but I really tried to listen to his cues and that is what worked for us. Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631389 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:09:46 +0000 Eko 2631389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: yeah I guess that wasn't very descriptive. The first real transition we did was getting him to nap in his crib. He would fall asleep in my arms and I would put him there and he would wake up. I would pick him backup, fall asleep, and try to put him back down. I would mostly always try to put him down... unless I desperately needed sleep. Because I was consistent he eventually starred napping. The naps turned from 20 minutes up to an hour. It wasn't a quick fix. I went from Co sleeping and naps into his arms to napping in his crib by 6 MO the and sleeping in his crib by 7 and then falling asleep on his own at like 9 and sleeping through the night at a year. If I was in your position I would keep pulling away until she gets the hang of that. Then work on the next transition you want. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631364 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:22:12 +0000 Silva 2631364@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Eko: do you mind giving me some examples of the "soft transitions" you did? That makes sense to me and is kind of the "plan" I'm trying to come up with </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631356 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:09:07 +0000 Eko 2631356@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: We coslept until LO was around 5 months. I found that for us everything worked well in soft transitions. Sleep training did not work for us. I always would just try things and stayed consistent and then it became a new normal. Even when I was super tired of getting up I still did it and it worked out. I always think there is no magic trick but just keep at it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631345 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:51:29 +0000 Silva 2631345@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: I'm going to try that as soon as I get the motivation to do something besides holding him while I watch justified. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631333 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:41:10 +0000 ShootingStar 2631333@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: Maybe its the warmth he misses. Have you tried pwnstar's trick of putting a heating pad on the rock n play to warm it up? (And take it out of course, lol). Or you could try the rice sock thing - for pressure I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631328 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:37:19 +0000 Silva 2631328@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: yeah my daughter was never a good co sleeper either... this guy seems to be a relatively decent sleeper but only if he's got the boob pillow. But I hurt! I sleep tenses up I think </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631325 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:30:21 +0000 ShootingStar 2631325@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: Oh, I hated it. He slept the same short and crappy stretches, I couldn't roll over, and I had to constantly worry about the blankets and stuff. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631323 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:28:48 +0000 Silva 2631323@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: the only motivator for cosleeping is he sleeps relatively well (a 4 hour stretch, easy back to sleep). But I'm not a huge fan either, and it's definitely making my recovery go slower because I'm so stiff and sore from co sleeping.</p> <p>Maybe I will wait until his stretches get longer, and try to get him on his own for the first stretch </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631320 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:23:58 +0000 ShootingStar 2631320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: It did take a while. I would watch the clock...I think I'd give it maybe 10 minutes? Then I'd set him down. And again I would do this three times max, sometimes only two. </p> <p>I really didn't like co sleeping though and was motivated to get him to sleep on his own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631316 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:19:31 +0000 Silva 2631316@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: @ShootingStar: so you guys just pick up and start over when they wake up? I fee like that would take hours. Is that really how people get babies to sleep?? Oh man 😳😂 I am so lazy </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631308 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:13:24 +0000 ShootingStar 2631308@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I can't remember exactly when we stopped co sleeping with DS, it was some time between 4 and 6 months. He used to wake up every couple hours until we sleep trained. I would nurse and rock him to sleep and then when he was deep asleep I'd put him in the PnP next to the bed. If he woke up immediately I'd give it another 2 chances of nursing or rocking then put him down in the PnP. If that didn't work we'd co-sleep until he woke up again. </p> <p>As the night went on it would be harder and harder to get him in the PnP. But over time he spent more and more of the night not co-sleeping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631305 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:11:49 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2631305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: yup. We still go through that 10@ times a day. But eventually they get the hang of it. </p> <p>Are you swaddling? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631270 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:56:09 +0000 Silva 2631270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@T.H.O.U.: I think that's going to be my goal. But I swear I nurse him until he's limp, been asleep for like 15 minutes and I keep him pressed against me while slowly lowering him into he rock and play... and BAM. 15 minutes later he's awake. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631268 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:51:19 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2631268@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Silva: thank! She dropped her last middle of the night feeding on her own and sleeps 12 hours now. I was shocked. I was fully prepared to have to force her to night wean. I hope your guy starts sleeping better soon. Maybe a bedtime routine would help? Baby sleep is so hard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631267 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:50:24 +0000 T.H.O.U. 2631267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We always tried to put them down in their own bed. If they ended up in our bed that was ok. But at least they had a solid bedtime routine for their own bed. </p> <p>If you nurse to sleep, can you at least try to transition after baby falls asleep? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631262 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:35:46 +0000 Silva 2631262@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: oh and fwiw, 'my daughter didn't stop middle of the night wake ups completely until 18 months be she's a champion sleeper now- 6;30/7 to 6:30 without any issue ever. Hope yours heads that way soon! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631261 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:34:17 +0000 Silva 2631261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pickle: we bought a rock and play and I can't get him to sleep in that either. Both my kids have been like this- they can be dead asleep, and if I set them down they wake up. I actually did get him to sleep in the rock and play once- he stayed asleep for an hour :/<br /> I am hoping there is some magical age where he will start to be more independent and I can start easing into the transition. I guess I just have to keep trying</p> <p>We did parent attended cio and it helped my daughter fall asleep on her own but didn't change much in the way of overnight wake ups </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631240 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:01:37 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2631240@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I coslept from weeks 3-6 and held DD for all her naps. It made me pretty nervous and I didn't sleep well. We borrowed a rock in play from a friend and started a bedtime routine when DD was 6 weeks old. It helped tremendously. She immediately started sleeping 4 hour stretches. </p> <p>She didn't start STTN consistently until a week ago (she's almost 1). I had to break her nurse to sleep habit and sleep train. We did CIO with checks and she learned to put herself to sleep at 10.5 months. About 3 weeks after that she started STTN. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/if-you-co-slept-with-your-newborn#post-2631236 Mon, 03 Oct 2016 16:56:08 +0000 Silva 2631236@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I swear I'm not going to make as many sleep posts with this baby as I did with my first.</p> <p> If you co-slept with your newborn, but successfully stopped while they were still a young baby...what did you do?</p> <p>This baby is 8 weeks old- worn for all of his naps and sleeping in bed with me at night. So far my only sleep success has been that I manage to remove my nipple from his mouth about 75% of the time so he isn't actually latched on. The bar is that low- I'm just bad and lazy about getting babies to sleep.</p> <p>We sleep trained my daughter at 6 months but it didn't fix much and months 4-6 were brutal. I'd really like to avoid all that mess if possible. I know it's still early but I'm trying to make a plan. He's without bedtime routine or bedtime currently because he just sleeps or nurses until I go to bed </p>