Need help with transition from co-sleeping to cot

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Baby is nearly 10 months old. She sleeps in my bed with me and wakes up several times in the night for feeds but she is not really interested in feeds for more than 5 minutes. As a result though, I am very tired by morning and so is she! I have tried to put her in the cot (in the same room) and have walked out and she is crying a lot. She cries the moment i put her in the cot.

I have been doing this for a week now and I give in after half an hour (with a few reasurances to baby in between) as she cries so much. Is she just not ready to go into the cot yet? Its not just due to my sleep deprivation that I am trying to settle her into the cot, I am also worried about what will happen when I return to work in 1 month's time.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

To add, never had this problem with the other DCs, they happily settled into the cot straight from moses basket. My new baby hated the cot after moses basket and ended up in my bed!

I could have written this! My ds is nearly 8 mo and we're trying to do the same. He was fine in moses basket but hates the cot. He literally cries as you approach it even if he's seemingly in a deep sleep! (He will play happily with toys in it during the day though!)
I've spent the last week refusing to let him back in our bed. This has meant lots of tears and I have taken a sleeping bag so I can curl up next to the cot. He has been so fractious that most nights I've had to have him lying next to me til he goes to sleep then transfer him To the cot. I have also been refusing to bf him after midnight so have had a tippee cup of water to offer him (cause of all that crying:-() . I think I've only given in twice in a week because he was getting so frantic there was no way he would settle . on the up side it means we've had a few nights where he's gone from.midnight to 7.30 am without bf (but with some water) so it's progress and proves it can be done!
A couple of nights he's spent most of it on the floor next to the cot with me (because I was so tired I literally couldn't care anymore!) But last night I managed to stay awake enough to put him in the cot a couple of times So he finally spent moSt of the night in it! He wakes a lot and cries a lot though . We've been doing a cuddle back to sleep and then back down (which he often fights) although very occasionally he'll settle again if you cup his face with your hands .
I'm going to keep going with it. I felt so wrecked yesterday that I spent the morning in tears so I got family to look after him for an hour and I just read a magazine and went to sleep in a chair for 20 mins. I can't tell you how much more human I felt afterwards so please try and do the same for your own sanity! !
Just remember that there are no right and wrongs...If there were there would be no need for a sleep forum - and look how busy it is!! The more people you ask the more you realise that every child is different and no one method works for everyone. Like you, circumstance has forced us to move him from Co sleeping to the cot so we're having to push it. Hopefully the babies will get used to it soon, but for now try to ignore all the people who say they have babies who sleep through because I'm fairly certain that's just luck not their technique! (Gotta make myself feel better somehow :-D)

Thank you so much for replying, monkeybrain. My baby does exactly the same! She also plays happily in the cot in the daytime but come bedtime and tears start if she gets anywhere near the cot! I even put a cot mobile over the cot to distract her or soothe her, but she is not interested! Waste of money!

I actually made progress this evening! Yay! after crying for 18 minutes, baby fell asleep! I held my breath for 5 minutes until i realised that it was really true and fell asleep too! She woke up a few minutes ago and is back in my bed having a feed and I will try to get her back in the cot again. I am feeling optimistic and delighted after 3 hours of sleep! Need to work towards water tippee cup so she doesnt wake up wanting a feed!

It will take some more days but I am now hopedul! Hang on in there!!!