How to move from cosleeping to baby in next to me?

[Nemesia34]

Baby is 5 weeks and won’t stay asleep in next to me for more than 30 mins so we started cosleeping using Lullaby Trust guidance from a few days old. I coslept with my first DC and didn’t get on well with it long term as I found it uncomfortable and we were both light sleepers so woke each other up a lot inbetween feeds. We eventually sleep trained at 7 months to get them in own room (which I’d like to avoid doing again this time if I can help it).

I didn’t want to cosleep again this time but in early days, cosleeping was better than no sleep. Baby will still only sleep max 2 hours at start of night then will often wake hourly after that. And grunts and squirms constantly from 4am until morning. So cosleeping hasn’t meant that they magically sleep beautifully like it does for some.

My question is - how can I get DC into their next to me crib instead? And how long are you typically awake for when sat up feeding/waiting for them to be asleep enough to transfer to crib? That’s the one thing I like about cosleeping - that I don’t need to force myself to stay awake during feeding/settling.

Advice welcome!

I don't think cosleeping ever means they sleep through, I'd expect a baby so young to be waking 1-2 hours, it just means you don't need to get out of bed.

In my experience of trying to get baby to sleep in the next to me was that I ended up in the next to me, and then she would sleep, but if I tried to move away she wouldn't, so I gave up.

Personally, I think this is second child, you can be more relaxed with worrying about the future, just do whatever gets everyone the most sleep safely.

Sounds entirely normal for 5 weeks. personally I'd cosleep just to get you more sleep. I found it easier just me and baby in a double bed. And you don't ever have to sleep train? We never did and mine slept through of her own accord by 18 months.