Putting baby into the cot

Mums that breastfeed and co-sleep with their babies, how are you transitioning into getting baby to sleep in a cot?!

We’ve coslept pretty much from the start and my lg is coming up to 11 months now. Ideally I’d want to get her a floor bed so I can jump in and out the bed with her if and when needed but we don’t have the space right now so got a cot instead and she absolutely hates it for sleep.

Putting her toys in there to play during the day if I need to do something quickly is fine, she loves it! but other than that, she won’t nap in there or sleep at night.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!!!!

Read more on Peanut

The views expressed in community are solely the opinions of participants, and do not reflect those of Peanut.

Learn more about our guidelines.

Add a comment

I had the same problem with my little boy... We ended up getting a single floor bed first so I could just about fit with him and slowly was able to roll out and go back to my own bed to sleep. He now has a double floor bed as we moved somewhere bigger. Most nights he'll still come and join us at 1am for the remainder of the night which I love 🥰 could you fit a single floor bed in?

Having failed on many many attempts in transitioning our lo to the cot, we have just removed one side of the cot and then aligned that with our bed, so that the lo can be more easily transferred at night ( gently rolled into the cot, rather than laid down). It's only been a few days, so no massive successes yet. But she absolutely loves playing in there now that the cot is basically an open space with the bed. It also gives me a few more ideas on how to get her to sleep in the cot (tonight I'm going to try to feed her in bed with her lying on the cot side, see if that works), so I'm more optimistic about the results 🤞🤞

I have the same struggle

in our community

Is this normal behaviour?

Hi all, I’m just reaching out to see if anyone else has noticed this in their babies sleep or if it’s just mine and if it’s normal behaviour or something I should be worried about? So for the last week or so whenever my baby is asleep he will move around a lot and when I say a lot I mean he will go from one end of the bed to the other, he will turn himself around, he will then get on all fours and start banging/rubbing his face on the mattress. This can go on all night even after he wakes and has been resettled. I’ve also noticed he does this in his cot too. I think we maybe going through some of sort of sleep regression too, but this none stop movement/fidgeting in his sleep is starting to worry me (plus it’s keeping me awake all night too). But then he doesn’t do this during the day when he’s having a nap? Is anyone else’s baby like this and did it stop? Any advice would be appreciated.

Toddler hygiene

Hey mama's I have a question. At what point did you stop using baby wash and shampoo? And I'm not sure what I would even get for my daughter. I have a conditioner for her, but I'm not sure what body wash or shampoo I would get her. I would need one eczema friendly and she has curly hair. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated 👏 and any other toddler hygiene stuff, if there is any, would be appreciated too.

Aversion to my Husband

My husband and I have been together for almost 7 years, but got married 11 months ago. We decided to do life on hard mode. Our son was planned and med school happened faster than we thought. Within the first 6 months of marriage, we moved states for medical school, had a baby, and 2 deaths in my family, I have pp depression start after 2 months pp. Now our son is 6 months old. We’ve got our schedules/ routines down, but are fighting every other week sometimes multiple days in a row. We love each other and are great parents together, but communication around pretty much anything has been lacking. I just want to punch his face or at the very least tell him to leave me alone, but I also love him and know it’s probably the hormones making me so irritable. Anyone else have this issue? If so, how did you over come it?