Next to me crib tips

[Sweetpea1989]

Has anyone got any tips on how to move baby from our bed to next to me crib without too much stirring? I bring her into the bed to BF she drifts off at the end of the feed, I find it a bit awkward to move her back into the next2me.

I’m hoping there are some hacks out there!

We wait till the arm drop test works- lift baby's arm and gently let go, if it drops like dead weight they are deeply asleep!

The aim wants to be to "scoot" baby over, rather than lifting up and putting down.

By that I mean so move baby across the mattress, not up from it. You can do this my putting your arms under baby to move across (not up). Another way is to put baby on a spread-out muslin or similar and use that to pull baby across the bed mattress onto their own mattress.

I recommend a sidecar cot (full sized cot with one side removed), which doesn't have a raised lip between cot mattress and bed mattress. I know some of the bedside cribs do, which makes "scooting" baby across more difficult.

Yes I’d hoped there was a technique to it! But you’re right the next2me has a raised lip making that tricky.

Why not go straight to a sidecar cot then? They are much better than cribs anyway, imo.

It just takes some practice. I had one end of our next to me raised so they had to go in one way.

If they were very asleep I just twisted myself and put them in. I'd put a foot on the floor to help