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To ask for your advice on getting baby to sleep in their cot?

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HannahsLife · 30/06/2023 01:11

DC is 12 months and just refuses to go down in her cot anymore. Wakes up crying before we've even touched her onto the mattress and then is asleep the second we pick her up. If left in their she gets up and climbs and walks around.

She's never slept great in it, always ended up cosleeping at some point in the Night, but we moved a couple weeks ago and she started out cosleeping while we got her cot and nursery set up. And now we have it's impossible.

I can't do CIO but any other advice would be great! I know about safe sleep 7 for cosleeping but she is such a wild sleeper I'm not getting any sleep
And I miss my husband!

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TalkingSchist · 30/06/2023 01:20

My son is 14 months so we have just done this!

What worked for me is lying him down and standing beside him til he slept for a few nights, patting his back etc.
Then a few nights of the same with only verbal reassurance, standing over the cot, but without hugging/lifting.
Then, verbal reassurance only with my back to the cot.
Then, in the room but not beside cot (I sat in view of him but out of reach) with verbal reassurances
Then, sitting in the doorway with verbal reassurances.
Then, verbal reassurances from hallway outside door.
Finally, verbal reassurances over the monitor.

It took about a month for him to be able to sleep alone. It was all done very gently and slowly, no crying it out as he constantly had verbal reassurances. There were some tears shed; but he was comforted at all points. If he cried for more than a few minutes we jumped back a stage for a few more days.

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