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We went from swaddle+rock n play --> swaddle+crib --> merlin sleepsuit --> sleep sack. Worked great for us and was pretty seamless

LO was about that age when we did it. We did crib first, then dropped the swaddle.

With my first we put him in the crib swaddled at 4m.

With my second that didn't seem to work. So we did it cold turkey no seaddle and in crib at 5m.

We went from swaddle and rock n play to Merlin and crib all at once and it was pretty seamless.

@paigeface: We did the crib transition early, LO was so noisy! We ditched the swaddle when he started to roll in it, right at 5 months. We tried going to just the sleep sack at that point but LO could not get himself to sleep with his arms free so I bought the Merlin out of desperation. It worked like magic.

ETA. With your LOs age I think you might want to try going from rnp/swaddle to crib/Merlin in one swoop. Then you don't have to worry about rolling for a while. If it doesn't work you can go back to the swaddle a little longer.

First we moved the RnP to the nursery next to the crib, still with swaddle. Then we did swaddled in the crib, plus a crib snugglenest (towels under sheet) and a crib wedge for elevation. Then we slowly removed the snugglenest and removed the wedge. Then finally we swaddle-weaned. This whole process took more than a month, but it worked very well!

Ugh. Hugs. No sleep sucks! Could you try moving to the crib at night and still using the rnp for naps? My LO continued to nap in the mamaroo for quite a while even when he was spending the night in his crib. Are you using loud white noise?

I'm going through this right now. My son isn't swaddled, but he sleeps through the night in his rock n play. I'm trying to transition him to his crib, but he wakes up after only 30 minutes when he's in it and will cry until I put him in the RNP. I bought the Merlin sleep suit off Amazon, and I hoping that will help

@paigeface: Another thought... As long as he hasn't hit the weight limit and isn't rolling in the rnp, what's the harm in leaving him in it for now? If the transition is going to suck you might as well put it off as long as possible and get some more good sleep. Make the transition when you absolutely MUST. And maybe by then he'll be old enough to do some type of CIO (if you're comfy with that), and if not, he might just be that much closer to ready and it might be easier. "If it ain't broke..."

Sleep is huge for me. Without it I am a miserable person/mother so we waited until we absolutely had to to make the hard transitions. We didn't remove the swaddle until LO proved he could roll it it, same with the Merlin, and by that point he was old enough to do some CIO.