My DD has been in her cot for a while but has slowly become more and more difficult to settle and we have had a couple of weeks now of her waking every 30 mins across 3 or 4 hours in the middle of the night. I have finally worked out that she doesn't like the unrestricted freedom of the cot - she settles to sleep almost instantly when I put her down in her carrycot (either on the pram base or detached on its own) which is basically a bit of a squash now, at nearly 6 mo. The last few nights, we have started to put her into the carrycot in her cot when the unsettled phase has begun, just to get some sleep, but I am conscious that the mattress is not suitable for use as her main bed. Plus she is going to be too big for it very soon.
Any suggestions for how to make the cot narrower and more snug for her? I wondered about rolling a pillow up in a sheet to make a sort of sausage that I can put down the length of the cot on one side, tucking the ends in securely under the mattress. Or maybe a positioner? I saw the Sleepyhead bed guard on the John Lewis website, but she's probably too big for it already.
Any thoughts would be very welcome. The nights where we are up every half hour are just exhausting.
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6mo won't settle in wide expanse of cot, just squashed into her carrycot ... Suggestions?
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Chestnut99 · 02/03/2013 00:05
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