4 month old keeps getting stuck

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Help!

4 month old baby sleeps next to me in a ‘next to me crib’ which he is really obviously too long for. Fine when he’s sleeping length ways, but I’m up moving him every hour because he wiggles into positions which he then can’t get out of and is far too long to be in comfortably!

What options do I have? Is it too early to put him in his own room in his proper cot?

So far I’m thinking…

1. Move him into his own room, in his own big cot. (Is 4 months too young to be sleeping in his own room? Moving the cot into my room isn’t an option)

1. Putting something like a ‘sleepyhead’ in his next to me crib to wedge him in and keeping him next to me in his crib.

Any ideas or thoughts?
Thank you!! 💤 🧟‍♀️

Usually practice is to have them with you until 6 months. I used a travel cot with a bassinet fitting with both mine next to my bed.

Can you get a travel cot in your room?

Don’t use a sleepyhead - they’re not recommended for overnight sleeping anyway, and any thought of ‘wedging’ a four month old puts my heart in my mouth. It’s the most risky age for cot death.

It’s too early to go into their own room.

If those really are your only 2 options, he would be far safer in his own cot in his room than using the sleepyhead, and please nothing that comes close to "wedging" him.

We had this a couple of months ago. DD’s room isn’t usable yet so I got her a cot and took the side off so it’s basically a giant next to me. Her brothers were in their own rooms way before 6 months so really risk assess the options (eg if your cot is drop-side I don’t think you can take a side off. But try taking the non-drop-side off and have the open side up against your bed) and choose whichever option you prefer, I reckon they’re all fine.

(Oh yes no wedging, that wasn’t an option I was talking about.)

I put my second in his own cot about 4 months, I used one of the sleeping bags and he loved it, great sleeper these..wish I had done it with my first

I would put him in his own room in a big cot. I had a big baby too and he was in his own cot in his own room at 3 months. However I had a single bed in there too and slept on it so I could be in the same room as him till he was at least 6 months. In fact, I still sleep in his room, even though he is nearly a year old (he still wakes at night plus my husband snores 😂). Could you fit a bed in your baby's room and do something similar? It means you get more sleep as, if they wake, you can feed/resettle them and go straight back to sleep without having to move between rooms. I always found the bedside cribs a massive faff and waste of money. In the end, you end up using them like a cot anyway because they stop you getting out of your bed easily plus your baby outgrows them so quickly.

Also, definitely don't use a sleepyhead in that way.

Oh gosh you’re way off the mark with ‘wedging him’ in. Sleepyheads aren’t intended for overnight sleep. If you can’t fit a cot in your room could you put a travel cot in your room? Your baby is too young to sleep separately to you.

Mine went in their own rooms at 2 and 4 weeks respectively now 3.5 and 5 months and never been a problem. You do you x

@dancingmice they’re your children to put at risk but please don’t encourage others to do the same as you

Hi OP, my room wasn't big enough for any other option when my son out grew his Moses basket at 7 weeks. So, at that point he went in to his own cot bed.
I know that's not recommended practice but I didn't have a choice. Plus, my house isn't that big so his room is literally a few steps from mine. My son has slept through the night from 11 weeks so it worked for us!

I put my youngest in her cot in her own room and slept in with her on a camp bed until she was 6 months.

Our lo was long. We used travel cot and brought an mattress from asda I think it was. And she was fine. We popped it next to our bed. You could if you have space move the cot into your room. Or like a pp suggested pop lo in cot and sleep in there with them. I wouldn't let them sleep by themselves yet. But that's just the pure worry of sids

Is he unhappy in those positions or do you just think he is? Babies sleep in some weird positions just fine so long as the mattress is firm he'll be fine.