This is more of a post to get it off my chest but advice is welcome too. I am REALLY struggling to get my daughter to sleep in her own bed. She’s almost 6 months now and I used to be able to latch her then transfer her into her bed but now as soon as I lift her she wakes up. If by some miracle I get her down she wakes up in 20 min max. I don’t know how to get her to sleep longer alone! I’ve made sure she’s a nice temperature and tried putting something that smells like me next to her but she won’t stay asleep. In the day she can nap independently for an hour and I don’t need to latch her to sleep and I can transfer her to the pushchair no problem but the cot at nighttime is just a major task 😭 I don’t know if I’ve created a habit of sleeping with me or how to break it or what to do but I am struggling because I need my space now and I can’t seem to get it :(
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This is going to sound weird but is her head the same direction when napping be bedtime like both facing north , south, etc. I’ve heard and had friends experience this that babies don’t like to sleep a certain direction I want to say it’s north but cannot remember. If her head is different directions at bedtime try matching nap time position

Yeah! When she’s asleep in the bed vs the cot it’s the same direction but when she’s in the pushchair I have no idea it could be anywhere 😂 but the pushchair is best to transfer her to weirdly!

i went through this with my son everyone said just persevere but it’s sooo exhausting! i tried and tried but he wasn’t ready. at 9 months we attached his cot to our bed and he finally started sleeping alone!! currently going thru some kind of regression / separation anxiety so having sleepless nights again but the cot to our bed was a game changer x

I might have to do this too! Did you get a bedside crib thing to attach? It really is exhausting I’ve tried to persevere but the other night it got to 4am and I was like I cannot keep doing this or neither of us will sleep at all 😭

so we originally had a next to me crib and it came with these rope / buckle things that you tie to your bed frame and then tie to the cots frame and once mattresses are on you can’t see it at all we just use that and have our bedside table on other side of cot so it can’t move. exhaustion is a killer honestly and there’s only sooo many nights you can deal with the restlessness i know exactly how you feel x