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We transitioned at about 4.5 months. Prior to switching, she was taking her naps in the swing, and sleeping in our bed at night. We decided to do naps and night time all at once. It was tough, especially because during her MOTN wakeups, it was so much easier to just go get her and bring her into bed, instead of feeding her and putting her back in the crib.

It probably took 2 weeks before she was doing naps AND night time in the crib.

Right now, when she wakes up, I go get her, feed her in our bed (cause I'm lazy), then take her back to her room/crib. We're sleep training ATM, and I'm hoping to drop one or both of the MOTN feedings soon.

starting at about 6.5 months we put her in the crib for the first part of the night, and then she came to our bed for the remainder. the crib was in our room. at about 7.5 months I started putting her in the crib all night. At about 8.5 months we moved the crib out of our room. And then we finally slept.

The real trick was getting her to fall asleep on her own, as I'd always nursed her to sleep lying down. We basically did the sleep lady shuffle/parent attended CIO. We did this with her in bed with us. Once we could get her to put herself to sleep, we started putting her down in the crib.

As a newborn, E refused to sleep anywhere but with (mostly) me (in my arms or curled up next to me). We hadn't planned on co-bedding (we had a side-car bassinet thing), but it was the only way I got ANY sleep at all those first months.

But by 6 months D was really eager to move him into his own space. Our bed really isn't big enough to co-bed comfortably with an increasingly restless sleeper, and we wanted him to have his own quiet place.

So at around 6 months we transitioned him into his crib (which he had never slept in before) using a modified CIO.

Rather than checking at 5, 10, 15 minutes (that made him angry) I would let him cry for up to 15 minutes at a time. If it was a very angry, hysterical cry I would go in sooner (something was almost certainly wrong--he'd dropped his paci or needed a diaper change). If it was a quiet, whiny-like cry, a "I'm really tired but just fighting sleep" cry, I would let it go up to 20 minutes.

The first night or two was very hard for me, even though from the stories I've read about CIO on here it was a breeze. But no one likes to hear their baby cry when you can fix it by just going in and picking him up. The first few nights I sat on the floor outside his door, staring at the monitor on my phone and crying.

But within a week it was great. Sleep times are a breeze. He doesn't always go right to sleep....sometimes he'll sit and play with his lovey or talk to himself for a bit, but his crib is his safe place, it's his space and he loves it. (unfortunately, we have a hell of a time getting him to sleep other places!)

@yoursilverlining: I'm really nervous about it, he falls asleep on his own in our bed holding his Little Giraffe blankets, he's a hoarder, he has to sleep with 2 of them. Previously, he was sleeping on his own and didn't start co sleeping with us until he was 10 months. We moved and he just didn't adjust well with the new house. Now when I tell him it's bedtime, he runs into our room, he won't go near his nursery unless it's to play or for diaper changes. We did set up the toddler bed in our room since he's used to sleeping there. I hope it works, getting kicked in the face is really not that fun.

We transitioned at 6.5m or so. She was waking up every two hours and our doctor suggested she might have been waking up cause she smelled me or there was too much noise. The night we moved her she went from multiple wake ups to one. We shared our bed and also kept her in her cosleeper and eventually crib next to our bed during the 6.5m she was in our room. When she would have her 3am wake up, I brought her to bed to nurse and she would sleep with us until 7ish. Now she's in her room all night and hardly ever falls asleep in our bed.

@JessKas: good luck!