How to get a 1 year old co sleeper into a cot? Is it even possible?

[GimmeDaBoobehz]

Basically, what the title says really.

I have a DD who is 13 months next week. She's been a co sleeper since she was 4 months old and before that was in her pram. We co slept because !) she had silent reflux and I wouldn't sleep knowing she could choke on her sick and 2) once doing this she seemed a lot more settled, so I carried on.

She's still settled but I find it quite knackering and it gives me a dead arm (I put it underneath her still as I still think 'just in case') and she likes pulling my hair to get her to sleep or scratching my ears til they bleed.

So if anyone has any tips I'd really appreciate it.

I might even send you some lotus biscuits in the post once I find some :)

Hey,
I had a LO who would ONLY sleep in her pram and I thought things would never change no matter how I tried to get her to sleep in her cot, on me, etc etc. At 9 months I put her in her cot the other day thinking it wouldn't work, and she has napped there for a week!! I can't believe it! I also can't believe I spent so many months worrying how she was going to make the transition. I believe your LO will when they are ready. I would LOVE my LO to co sleep with me sometimes, enjoy it while it lasts :o)

does she nap in the cot in the day?

Nope.

She stands up and jumps in it instead. :)

Have you thought about not bothering with the cot now and transitioning straight to a toddler bed or even a single bed in a few months?

Advantage of a single bed is that you can still co-sleep when necessary, but in their bed. You could get one of those with a matching underbed, have it as a double at first, then try gradual retreat.

Which is pretty much what we ended up doing with DC2, now over 2yo and has been in a single bed for some time after refusing cot.

I've just got my 18 month old into cot. We co-slept every night from day one so he didn't even really know what the cot was but after 18 months of feeding to sleep non stop, no evening time to myself and his total dependance on me we just changed everything overnight. So I feed him only before bed and first thing now - not at all during the night. I have to do the evening feed before his bath because otherwise he would just fall asleep. then he has bath, into sleep bag and into cot. The first night he went totally mental but within a few nights he accepted it. yesterday I had best night ever with him sleeping from 7pm until 5am. It's taken maybe 4 weeks I think and there's been continual improvement each day - now he goes and puts his bear in the cot to get ready for bedtime very happily etc.
The problem with a bed is that they can just hop out once they are walking. There's no way my DS would stay in it - but depends on your LO I guess.

When you say went mental how did it go? Thinking might spend a weekend tackling this weekend.
Give me all the details.

I co-slept with my DD almost from birth until she was 13 months. Will always have some lovely snoozy baby memories but by the end it was awful for both of us. She would wake every hour to feed just because I was there and was so unsettled in the night, tossing and turning and kicking. Ordered her a bigger cotbed the night after she kicked me in her sleep and burst my nose.
So after that arrived, we spent some time doing fun things in the cot, just so she knew it was a nice safe place, then I went out for the night and DH got her to sleep in it. Took about an hour but we never went back.
Of course she still wakes up three times a night so .... what do I know