Cosleep to cot

[fireandsaga]

Looking for some suggestions and real life success stories of transitioning bf baby cosleeping to cot,

Would prefer gentle ways and not crying it out

Cot is at end of bed and can’t take side off to be a side cot
Not appropriate room to have mattress on floor either

Any help would be appreciated

Little one is 8 months

Watching with interest as my 7 month old snoozes next to me ><

I can sometimes get her into her cot from bed by transferring her when shes already asleep but thats the only way I've found really so hope you have more luck!

No help (sorry!) but also following for ideas as baby lays next to me. I need to sleep without waking stiff and achy from keeping in the c-shape all night!

Haha we are in it together!
Yeah my 8 month old is now too heavy to sneak into cot when asleep and I can’t trick her anymore with a dummy because she knows and she spits it out and cry’s more !

Amazingly as I post I managed to get my little one to sleep without boob and In her cot ! (Touch wood!)
Shall see how long this last haha but I hummed her some random songs and wrapped my arm/hand around the top of her head!
Still wanting some input though never know lol 😂

My DD (now 3) coslept with me for about a year and a half. At the time could never see an end to it.

If you can get them to sleep in for even for a short length of time it makes a difference. Almost as if they wake and think "ah ok I've just slept in my cot... that wasn't so bad". Gradually increase the number of short stints which will eventually , hopefully(!) morph into longer stints.
Once they do this then the challenge is to get them to settle without you in the room.
When they're old enough to understand reasoning you can teach them to fall asleep without you by their side. I found this technique worked when DD was approaching age 2 (half way down this page titled "if your child will not go to sleep without you")..
www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/health/sleep-problems-in-young-children/

I've currently got a cosleeping 6mo which I'm hoping to get into the cot more often. It's my fault really, not having the will power in the middle of the night to do the rigmarole.

And yes my back is in agony from the c shape! So glad I’m not alone

Thanks music for your post!
That’s a good point I shall try get her naps in her cot, It’s been so easy to let my little one sleep on me for naps while I relax but I need her to see the cot as a safe place to sleep, my poor back is in pain and my nipples need some time to heal lol 😂

The number of times I've actually fed dd to sleep IN her side-crib thing. Lie on my left, left arm/elbow above her head, other arm over the top of her to hold on to the other side of the crib for support, left leg flat and right knee on the side of the crib. I think I'd pass as a performer in Cirque du Soleil!

Back schmack.

The things we do, sacrificing our own well-being and physical comfort to just get these little rascals to sleep.

I waited until my son slept through in our bed then transition to his cot. This was at about a year old. He breastfed to fall asleep, so I had to climb in with him!! (Luckily it was a toddler size cot!) But it worked and most of the time he slept through. Once he was used to the cot my husband and I took turns in putting him to bed and then eventually my husband just did it to stop the breastfeeding to get to sleep.