hey..

i am a first time mom and my son is 8 weeks old...

he sleeps in a bassinnete and im trying to get him to sleep in his crib any advice???????

im also trying to get him on some sort of schedule instead of waking up every 2 hours.... is this possible?????

Help!!

I didn't have any issues switching to a crib. We made sure to swaddle our son and he made the transition pretty easily.

As far as sleeping schedules go I am a big fan of the cry it out method. My son slept through the night from five weeks - but then at five months he started gettting up every two hours. I talked to the doctor about it and he talked me into the crying it out method. I asked him to define crying it out because I wanted to run to my son after 10 mins. He said one to two hours!!!! I could only last an hour and it was so hard. But he finally learned to start sleeping through the night again.

I also kept a pretty strick bedtime routine and made sure he nursed right before he went to bed. When we switched to bottle I gave him a bottle right before he went to bed and that helped.

Hope this helps.

A great book that you can start as early as 6 weeks is "Healthy sleep habits, Happy child"  I swear by this book and have been using since my son was 4 months.  I refer to it often now and he is 2.  It gives you three versions of accomplishing the same thing based on your parenting style and lifestyle.

Good luck, I know for my son it was some trial and error until we found what worked best for him and we plan on using it again with our next child.

the only advice i can tell you is that you better do this now i let my daughter sleep in the living room her whole life she is 19 months old and i regret this all the time she is now so use to sleeping in there with us that when i tried to break her of this she screams til she vomits so i dont know what to tell u beside you shoulkd figure this out soon my friends have a kid the same age as me and he sleeps in his room by himself they just leave him there til he is done crying and sleeping i thought it was mean but it worked 4 them good luck and do it while he is young so he is use to it

Right now until he is 12 to 14 wks old he should only be awake one hour and asleep for 2 hours at least 12 hours a day, and then at night, he should sleep at least 4 to 6 hrs straight, with only one to two feedings in between! His day should consist of 3 hour blocks of time:                   E-EAT                                                                                       A-AWAKE                                                                                   S-SLEEP                                                                                    Y-YOU TIME                                                                             Lets say your son wakes up at 7am.                                             7am-EAT                                                                             7:30am-AWAKE/playtime                                                             8am- 10am-SLEEP/YOU TIME                                                    10am-EAT                                                                        10:30am-AWAKE/playtime                                                        11am-1pm-SLEEP/YOU TIME                                                        This schedule should continue on until 7pm, the only difference is that you will need to keep the lights dimmed, when he wakes up. At 7:30pm instead of playtime, he should get a quiet bath. Then swaddle, sing his nite-nite song and then lay him down no later than 8pm. Let him sleep as long as he wants after this time.As far as him sleeping in the bassinet, he has become accustomed to it and now must become comfortable in his crib. It should take about 3 days. It will be hard, he might cry a lot the first 4 times you put him in his crib, but its better for him, and he will sleep more soundly. What you should do, is find a sleepy nap/night time routine and do it EXACTLY the same everytime!!! He will get used to this routine and his crib. Also, it might help, especially if its cold, to put a heating pad in his crib, ONLY WHEN HE IS NOT IN IT, to keep his spot warm, and he will be more comfortable. I don't know if you have a sound machine or a lullaby CD, but this might make him feel more secure in his crib as well. If he gets on this schedule, he will begin to sleep and eat one hour later just about every month or so after he is 12 wks old! At about 6 months, he should eat 4 times a day along with solids and take at least 2 naps, for about 2 hours each time. I hope this helps!

My daughter didn't like sleeping in her crib right away either. I think it felt too big for her, and not secure enough. My mom bought us a "bed" that goes inside the crib so she doesn't feel like she's swimming in her crib..it worked on the first night, and since then...also, swaddling is so important..they're so used to being in mommy's tummy all warm and secure and the transition into the world is very tough...

My son slept in his big crib from day 1 so I didn't have to deal with the transition, but a friend put just the basket piece of her bassinet inside the crib to get the baby used to sleeping in it and it seemed to work for her. As for the schedule, my son is 12 weeks and I am still trying to encourage him to keep to a schedule. They are still quite small and schedules can take quite a while from what I hear. I am using the schedules from the book "the contented little baby" as a guideline and I am keeping my fingers crossed that one of these days we will make it through a whole day on a schedule!! So far only the morning is regularly on schedule, my son likes to throw me curve balls in the afternoon, mainly because his naps go off the rails!

Good luck

My son slept in his big crib from day 1 so I didn't have to deal with the transition, but a friend put just the basket piece of her bassinet inside the crib to get the baby used to sleeping in it and it seemed to work for her. As for the schedule, my son is 12 weeks and I am still trying to encourage him to keep to a schedule. They are still quite small and schedules can take quite a while from what I hear. I am using the schedules from the book "the contented little baby" as a guideline and I am keeping my fingers crossed that one of these days we will make it through a whole day on a schedule!! So far only the morning is regularly on schedule, my son likes to throw me curve balls in the afternoon, mainly because his naps go off the rails!

Good luck

My son slept in his big crib from day 1 so I didn't have to deal with the transition, but a friend put just the basket piece of her bassinet inside the crib to get the baby used to sleeping in it and it seemed to work for her. As for the schedule, my son is 12 weeks and I am still trying to encourage him to keep to a schedule. They are still quite small and schedules can take quite a while from what I hear. I am using the schedules from the book "the contented little baby" as a guideline and I am keeping my fingers crossed that one of these days we will make it through a whole day on a schedule!! So far only the morning is regularly on schedule, my son likes to throw me curve balls in the afternoon, mainly because his naps go off the rails!

Good luck