Well last night was Mya's first night in her own room in her crib.  Not as bad as I thought it was going to be.  I put her in her crib read to her and put some music on.  Mya screamed for about 15 minutes and fell asleep then woke up at 10:30pm and cried for 2 minutes and fell back to sleep.  She woke up again at 6am and I took her in to bed with me.  

Today it was nap time at 10am and i didnt know if I should try the crib for naps too so I did.  I put her in the crib with a bottle and walked away.  She cried for 5 minutes and layed down. 

I hope it stays this smoothe. 

Thank you for the advice.

Hi,I had HUGE problems with sleep with Katie. She slept in a cot next to my side of the bed as she was waking every 2 hours ( shocking colic..so they told me!) The only way I could get her back to sleep was by putting her next to me ( we tried wrapping, patting, music, white noise, etc.. etc.. etc...) After 8 monthsof being in our room - I was the one who had had enough! Katie would wake up evrytime I moved, hubby snored etc -I NEEDED SLEEP! ( She also would not sleep during the day until she was 4 months old!)  This is what I did- Each morning for a few days, we went into her room and played with toys on the floor and listened to some music so that she became familiar with the room. I put her into her cot first of all during a daytime sleep when I wasn't so exhausted. I read a story and sung some nursery rhymes. Gave her a bottle of water, tucked her in and went outside. I decided to go the hard yards after reading a sleep article by Pinky Mackay. The first day, I buckled after 20 minutes of screaming which then escalated- she had her legs wedged between the bars. I got her settled again and walked out - she did the leg thing again. I abandoned the idea until I had fixed the leg poking thing. That afternoon,  I  draped a thin queen size sheet over the bars, under the mattress and over the bars. I placed eyelets along each side of the sheet and laced the edges together under the cot so she could not pull the sheet in, get the laces or anything else.  I then sewed ends onto this as well so that she was unable to poke any limbs through the cot and it was impossible to pull it into the cot. Next day we repeated the going to bed routine and I went out of the room. Katie cried and screamed for about 40  minutes ( during which time I also cried! I rang my Mum for moral support!) Katie then went to sleep. I heaped lavish praise on her for sleeping in her own room when she woke up. I made sure I went and got her as soon as she woke up.

That night we repeated the bed time routine and it took about  25 minutes of screaming and wailing ( with a little less intensity!) but she did go to sleep! It took about a week or so for Katie to be as happy about going to bed in her own room as she had in our room ( which is to say I had good days and bad days!) 

The BEST part is that she went from waking 4 or 5 times a night to once or twice! Oh sweet sleep!  THe worst part was that for the first week, I would wake up regularly listening to the monitor, sneaking a peek through the door to make sure she was OK !

About a month into this, I removed the sheet contraption!

 May be worth giving it a try! All babies are different and you know your baby best- so only you can gauge the screaming and crying and what it might mean!

 

I think your husband needs to understand that this can't just be done with the snap of a fingers depending on how old the baby is my health nurse said that it is recommended for baby to be in the same room as you until twelve months old. Some people believe that co sleeping fulltime is a good thing (not for me personally) Different things work for different people. Zack was doing the same thing but as soon as he was no longer waking up for his night feed it was no longer a problem because he slept through the night. Good luck

 Lexi xxx

i had this problem as my daughter was breastfeed and it wasn't working and she was hungry all the time, as soon as she went to sleep i'd put her in her cot to be woken several times during the night...i'd end up putting her in my bed, i was that exhausted... i got her out of it by sitting on the floor beside the cot stroking her head in silents until she fell asleep, then i'd hold her hand when i knew she was comfortable, then i would sit with her no touching reading my book, if she got up i'd lay her back down and again and again till she wouldn't get up, then i'd slowly move towards the door until i was sitting in the next room and new she would stay down...She still would yell out to see if i was close right up till she was 16months old then she stopped, i'd give her the dummy kiss her tuck her in walk out in silents and in the same way everytime.. Then with all the others i learned from my mistake and put them straight into bed swaddled wide awake from birth.. your not alone and it can be exhausting.. i know of a friend who couldn't stop her child sleeping with them and because it caused so many problems they got a single bed and the mum slept in that to get a good sleep and stop her husband getting upset with the constant movement..Good luck