4 month old wont settle in cot

[Maryam18]

Ds is 4 and a half months and has been sleeping in his Moses basket since birth and slept reasonably well. I have been trying to move him out of his Moses which he has outgrown and into his cot but every time I put him down in his cot he won't settle and starts rolling over and crying.

I have tried for the past week sleeping in the same room as him with him in his cot and I am continuously getting up every half an hour to comfort him and try putting him back to sleep. It is exhausting.

As soon as I put ds in the bed with me he sleeps perfectly.

Any advice? I really do not know what to do.

We had a similar problem, and DS always falls asleep as soon as he gets in with us but I was keen to not make that a habit.

I found attaching toys to the side of hisncot help, only very simple ones with those plastic hooks that are hopefully safe and not a suffocation risk.

Although the biggest thing that helped was being consistent. So every time we were home and he needed a nap he would go in his car. If he fell asleep in the car I would transfer him to him cot.

Sorry you're having a tough time, it's so awful when they're up so frequently, my ds2 is 15 months and has only just started sleeping through!

Is his cot in the same room his Moses was in? Have you tried putting the basket in the cot so he gets used to the cot a little first?

If he has been in your room up until now it will take him a while to settle but like everything else it's just a phase and it will get better.

Do you use white noise at all? We invested in the my hummy bear and it really helped with him settling himself back to sleep.

Is he BF? Is he wanting to feed when he wakes up?

Sorry for such a late reply. Yes ds is bf and the cot is in the nursery as there isn't enough space in our bedroom for a full sized cot. I have a single bed in the nursery where I was planning on sleeping until he is settled until at least 6 months.

So, after a week of literally no sleep I was exhausted so I gave in and put ds back in the Moses basket in our bedroom and he slept fine again for 7 hours, only waking up once. The Moses basket is just too small for him now so I ended up buying a next to me bedside crib which is bigger and he slept perfectly. I now know that I should have bought the next to me to begin with and will definitely use for the next baby in the future.

I figured my baby just isn't ready to be in his own room and perhaps the cot felt a bit too big. I also did try putting the Moses basket in the cot but the same thing was happening so it is definitely the setting and not being able to hear me.

Thank you for your replies

Glad you've got it sorted. Before you try next time, spend more time in the nursery to play and then for naps, then it's not so tricky when you want him to move in.

I’m having the same with my 4 month old dd. I’ve been trying to get her to have her daytime naps in her cot to get her used to it before we move her in there overnight in a couple of months. She just won’t settle in there though, as soon as I put her back in her bedside crib in our room she’s straight asleep! I’m hoping she’ll get used to it if I keep persevering but am glad we didn’t go straight into trying overnight!

Thanks for the replies everyone I have been putting ds in his cot for playtime since two months as he loved looking at his cot mobile so I really thought that would help. I am going to continue to do this in the hope that he will eventually settle there when he is a bit older.

Since I bought the next to me he has been sleeping 7 hours and doesn't wake at all. I have even tried to move him from the next to me to the cot in his nursery in his sleep but he wakes immediately! For now I am just going to enjoy the sleep

@Littlefroggy18 sounds like we have the same situation. I can't even put ds in his cot for naps because he won't settle even for five minutes.

May be to do with the four month sleep regression. Hang in there, it passes!