Help transitioning from cosleeping to crib

My baby is 6 months old and has only ever coslept with us since he was born, and same thing he’s only contact napped unless he’s in the stroller on a walk. We want to encourage him to start sleeping in his own crib but have absolutely no idea how to get started. We’ve tried putting him down during his naps to start and he wakes up immediately we can’t even get our arms out from under him. And same at night, we’ve tried to put him down but he wakes up, so we put him back to sleep and try again and he still wakes up everytime. We’ve tried for over 1.5 hours and same thing every time. Do we just keep trying until he accepts?? Any tips on what we can do? He’s been in his cribs many many times already during the day so he’s familiar with the room and the bed. I’m at a loss I have no clue what to do, he’s such a little Velcro baby and I don’t reallyyy mind but also we sleep terribly at night and he wakes up to feed 6+ times or just to get the boob a little bit for comfort. I just feel like a change needs to happen but have no idea how to start, I want him to feel secure and safe and not cause him any stress

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I'm in the same boat with my 3 months old baby. Don't know what to suggest as we've tried everything like you have and ended up with the same result... so I'm just following for advice 😁

@Raluca I’m sorry you’re in the same situation! It sucks to feel clueless on what to do 😅 idk how other people manage to, I guess it’s also different for each baby..

As above! Such a velcro baby at 3 months only contact naps and co sleeps at night. Already worried what we'll do at 6 months 🥴

@Amanta I feel you!! It’s stressful and at the same time you don’t want to rush them if they need us 🥹 currently typing this while he naps on me because our attempts to put him down in his crib failed yet again 🤣😭

I started with day naps. It’s tricky but I had to be persistent with resettling and putting them back into the crib. I found the first nap of the day was easiest so maybe start there? Eventually my daughter did all her day naps in her crib and at 4.5 months, we moved her in overnight too. Does take patience but they will get there!

@Heather thank you, it’s a good idea to start with first nap actually, we’ll give that a go! Atm he’s teething so we’ve taken a break and we’ll try again when he’s less upset 🥺

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