Advice with cots - I'm too short to lower my sleeping baby into a cot!

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My 8mo cosleeps, but we are looking to transition him into his cot which is wedged between our bed and the wall (tiny flat, nowhere else it can go). ATM he feeds to sleep or is carried to sleep. He is also still feeding a bit overnight.

The problem is that I am 5'2 with shirt arms and I can't for the life of me lift him horizontally into his cot whilst keeping him asleep. I can barely get him out of it when he's lying down, I have to lift him from under his shoulders. The cot is on the middle setting but should actually be on its lowest because lo is so tall and is pulling himself up.

It's partly because of the position of the cot, I can only access it from the end, not the side. But we have a travel cot too and I also struggle to get him in it whilst asleep.

Does anyone have this problem? I feel like this is a really stupid problem to have but I can't get him in and out to feed overnight, and I have to put him on the floor during the day to nap. I can't see a way around it beyond trying to get lo to self settle (working on it) or continuing to co-sleep. My DH can get him in and out (he's super tall) but he's not around during the day.

What about a floor bed or switching to a toddler bed with bed rail. I’m tall and when we started to use the cot around that age, I hated it! It was so awkward even for a tall person. Using a safe mattress on the floor or a bed was so much easier as we were already used to sleeping in a bed together.

Feel your pain - I’m 5ft and cannot now get baby into cot (on lowest setting now) without waking her. Sadly “drowsy but awake” not a state she’s familiar with! I’ve tried using a step ( the ones you use in aerobics) but still too far.
I’m giving up and switching to a floor bed - my back will thank me!

I’m 5 ft 3 but struggled putting mine down without him waking. I just get into his cot and feed him there!

Ours adapts to a toddler bed so assumed it would be strong enough for baby + parent reading a story. We’ve been doing it 4 months and no collapses so far!

I thought I might be making life harder in the long run but we went on holiday recently and he was fine being fed and then put into the travel cot, and sometimes now from the car/pushchair to his cot.

Highly recommend if an option!

If it’s wedged against your bed then just take the side off and leave it on the setting closest to the height of your bed. Like a cosleeper. We still have this set up for when my 2&4yo inevitably end up in our bed