Bassinet to Crib
My LO is 10 weeks and growing fast! She has already doubled her birth weight and is “tall” I know I’ll have to transition her to a crib. She currently sleep beside our bed in her bassinet. Curious - when and how did that happen for your LO? Did you move crib into your room? Sleep in their room to ease with the change?
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We started introducing more naps in the crib in my son’s room in the day so he got used to sleeping in there. Then by the time we moved him into it at night he was already used to sleeping in there and we had no issues
In the UK we have strong advice that the health visitor checks/asks, that you are to keep baby same room as you until 6 months old to help reduce the risk of SIDS as they are at peak risk at 2-4 months due to growth spurts and changes in their respiratory system and growing etc and they’re still very young and you should be close by and they won’t always cry if they need you at that age
We recently had to make the switch at 3.5 months for similar reasons 🤣 we had already started daytime naps in the crib to help all of us adjust. And now we’ve just moved the crib into our room to keep in line with the room sharing til at least 6 months guideline
My LG is nearly 5 weeks and even though length and weight were fine in the next to me bassinet we decided to move her in to the travel cot so she had more room to spread out as she was always really comfty in this on holiday.
She’s still in our room at the moment
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