Has anyone's baby resisted cot at first but then taken to it eventually?

My baby would never sleep in her next to me for long so I gave up for months and just coslept. Now I'm trying her in her big cot which I have as a sidecar by the bed and she will sleep for max 1 hour in it. I managed to keep her in it until 5:30 this morning but had to resettle her about 10 times and sometimes she woke up after only 20 minutes. Does anyone have experience with this and if I keep persevering is she likely to take to it eventually? I'm BF feeding her to sleep in her cot so she's falling asleep already in it but not without my assistance.

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Yes, ours didn’t sleep in the next to me from birth to about 3 months. And then one night she just did… in that time we’d put her down in it every single day and would take her out the second she seemed unhappy. I don’t know if she just started to feel safe there after this many attempts or just found more and more uncomfortable to contact nap over time but it just switched liked that over night and for about 3 more months now she sleeps fine and we even moved her to a bigger bed last week. I feel like babies take a lot of exposure generally speaking, but also some babies just might not take no matter what you do. I’d continue to try though!

Oh but also, ours learned to self sooth at about 2 months so I wonder if that’s also an issue if she can’t settle without your help? Maybe to do with that more than the location

How did you go about teaching her to self settle? I've had no luck so far!

We get asked this question all the time and unfortunately we didn’t do anything specific. One night she just put herself to sleep by sucking her fingers and that was it 🤷🏼‍♀️ by now she just covers her face and slams legs a few times for falling asleep. I know it’s wildly unhelpful 😭 sorry!

Try putting an item of your clothing in. When my wee one was born he refused to sleep in the next two me. I pulled one of my T-shirts over the mattress and within a couple days he would sleep in it no bother. I then took my tshirt out but what I do now is leave my pjs in there during the day so there is still some smell of me there.

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