Last week at some point my husband decided that it was time for our 7 month old Baby K to sleep in his own crib, rather than our bed. I am a breastfeeding mom, so it was a lot easier for me to nurse Baby K to sleep in our bed and fall asleep myself shortly thereafter. Apparently my husband, who falls asleep in a second, feels that Baby K should be out of our bed, I agree to a certain point.

I do want Baby K to have his own bed, he is after all a 7 month old bed hog, but really hubby doesn’t snuggle with me or anything, he just falls asleep and snores keeping me up – so Baby K is all I have to snuggle at night. If I had my way, and no hubby in my bed, I would have all three kids sleeping with me! My children are just so loveable and snuggly that I would love to have them all snuggle down with me each night. I love being a mommy, being a wife, well that’s another story lately! LOL

Anyways … Back on topic … Baby K is still breastfeeding but not as often. He does sleep through the night, but he has always slept with us, which translates to a horrible transition issue! He seems to have favored our pillow top mattress over his hard crib mattress. I think if they made a pillow top baby mattress for an older baby {as a younger baby may not do well with it} then Baby K may just stay in his crib.

After researching I found many people use the cry it out method and switch it up a bit to work best for them and their comfort level. I don’t believe in just letting your baby cry, because after all it’s their only “voice”. I do believe that my babies have figured that out, and will cry just because they know Mama will come “save them”.

How I transitioned my oldest and middle child from our bed/room into their own bed and eventually room was to allow them to be fully nursed or fed {depending on their age if they were still nursing or bottle feeding}, diaper changed, and placed some music on, usually a Mozart Baby Genius Sleepytime CD. My oldest transitioned without any real “issue”, she has always been a pretty easy going baby & child. My middle child not so much. He is very stubborn and it appears my last born, Baby K, is taking right after his older brother {my middle child} in the area of being stubborn!

What I will work on, only because hubby wants him out of our bed, is to allow Baby K to nurse til he is full and if he falls asleep during nursing, that’s fine by me {some say keep baby awake when nursing b4 bed}. After I know Baby K is completely full and diaper is changed I will then place him in his crib. He will cry and has cried, but I will be there for him. I will not pick him up out of his crib, I will simply rub his back, give him a bottle of water, or something to help distract him from the fact that he’s in his “big bad crib”. Every 5-10 minutes either myself or my husband will go in and check on him if he’s crying – again neither of us will pick him up out of his crib. We will keep doing this until finally Baby K learns his crib is a safe place and that mommy & daddy will be here for him, but he does need to sleep in his own crib.

This is going to be a tough road, a long battle, and take a lot of my strength, because remember, “I don’t want him out of our bed”.  I will try to keep you all posted, and would love to hear what worked for you!

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