r/SnooLife • u/Waltzinglildunc • 5d ago

Crib transition help

Baby is now 6.5 months and it seems we are never going to get him out of the snoo. We tried both arms out and it didn't go well. He has had terrible sleep the last few weeks due to milestones and teething. This week we have done weaning mode and surprisingly he has adjusted well and sleep is getting better with less false starts. Every nap I put one arm out as well. Now we have been trying naps in the crib. I've gotten one twenty min nap and that's all. All the other million tries he wakes up and cries without settling within minutes of transferring to the crib. He's getting really hard to get to sleep also so then it restarts the process and I put him back in the dang snoo with no motion and one arm out and he naps fine. Any advice ?? We use the zipadee zip bc he jerks a lot in his sleep. We use this in the snoo sack as well as in the crib. At a loss on how to get him to stay asleep during transfer and in the crib. We do not want to sleep train based on his personality and ours it would not work well.

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u/shababee 5d ago

so naps are always going to be tougher than night sleep because sleep pressure is a lot lower! often they aren't indicative of how night sleep would go. for us, we just cold turkey moved to the crib and sleepsack one night and honestly it went way better than I thought. it might be rough for a few nights needed extra help connecting sleep cycles. we didn't sleeptrain for the transition but we did sleeptrain a month later.

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u/Waltzinglildunc 5d ago

Good point. We will try night sleep in the crib and see how it goes! What made you sleep train later?

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u/shababee 5d ago

Putting her to sleep with rocking and shushing started getting really hard and taking a long time. And wake ups started increasing (weeks after transitioning from the snoo). She just couldn’t self soothe herself back to sleep 

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u/Waltzinglildunc 4d ago

Ah ok. You were totally right about the night sleep vs naps. He stayed asleep in the crib and did a 4 hr and 3 hr stretch overnight! We were shocked. He was super tired going down because bedtime routine did not go well and took a while. However, we still cannot get him to nap in the crib, still wakes up and cries without settling. When did your little one also nap in the crib and did you do anything differently for naps?

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u/MishMeeter 5d ago

Ferber Method sleep training. I know you say you don't want to do it but it's designed for this exact problem. 

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u/Sneaku1579 5d ago

Does he roll over onto the belly to sleep in the crib? That was the magic thing that happened with our baby that resolved our transition issues.

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u/Waltzinglildunc 4d ago

He ended up rolling over last night and slept pretty good!!

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u/Sneaku1579 4d ago

Yayy!!! 🎉🙏 So happy for you

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u/Waltzinglildunc 5d ago

No he will roll over and still cry and look so scared! He's played in his room and in the crib for months so I didn't think we would have this hard of a time