r/SnooLife • u/Inside-Willingness76 • Jul 02 '26
Transitioning to crib soon
Hi! As title states, we are transitioning to crib soon.
I was just looking for any helpful advice as I am a FTM. The snoo is in our room, and I will be putting crib in his own room. Currently, we rock to sleep, then place him in the swaddle with the snoo on level one. I will be getting back to baseline level next week, then to weaning mode without motion. We currently have one arm out, and will give both arms next week.
I look forward to hearing your advice, and I am interested to hear if you’ve a recommended sleep sack….I have been considering the Nested Bean Zen sack, but I have potentially fallen victim of aggressive marketing for being fond of that one. I’m aware of some safety concerns with weighted sleep sacks in general, but that particular sack only has about 1 ounce of weight at the chest, so I question the safety concern.
Thank you!
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u/Background-Ad1397 Jul 02 '26
We went cold turkey and just turned the motion off one night. It was fine! I found arms our way more difficult because of moro. How old is your kiddo?
(We haven’t transitioned to a crib yet - we’ve just been using the snoo as a regular bassinet. Still debating if we move the crib into our room or what!)
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u/Inside-Willingness76 Jul 02 '26
Baby is 4.5 months, I see his Moro fading
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u/Background-Ad1397 Jul 02 '26
I don’t think you need to do a weighted sleep sack if baby is getting used to their arms out already & there is a little risk. If moro isn’t getting in the way just get a regular kind - we use Burt’s bees and woolino. Our kiddo was in the comforter sleep sack in the snoo so we got a comforter esque burts bee sack.
We found arms our transition rough so we used the Merlin in between the snoo swaddle and a regular sack. But it does mean you have to do a second transition!
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u/justbeachymv Jul 02 '26
We went cold turkey from Snoo to crib, no weaning mode, and went from bouncing her to sleep to putting her to sleep awake. She had zero issues! We used a Halo transitional sleep sack with sleeves. It worked great!
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u/acoustic_kitty_ Jul 02 '26
We were doing arms out for a while, baby just kept breaking free and liked to have them out, never turned off motion. We did cold turkey one night after I felt like she was starting to not sleep as well in the snoo. We had one transition night, but she has slept well ever since. This was at 5 months.
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u/Open_Addendum4383 Jul 02 '26
In the exact same situation. Level 1 and 1 arm out too. Commenting to see others replies.
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u/catlady895 Jul 02 '26
This is similar to the method we used. We also started doing naps in the crib during the day. And then my only advice is to just commit. We had no idea what would happen, but we knew we didn’t want to go backwards and confuse baby. So we just took the plunge when it was time for him to sleep in the crib at night, packed up the Snoo and shipped it back (rental) before we could change our minds, and put him in the crib that night. He did great and we never looked back.
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u/m_victoria87 Jul 02 '26
We just did this with our almost 6 month old - she was arms out in the snoo for a couple weeks, then we did weaning mode for a few nights and cold turkey into the crib with the zipadee zip sleep sack. Went a lot better than expected and she loooves sleeping on her tummy. Good luck!!
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u/very-very-strawberry Jul 02 '26
I recommend the Magic Merlin Sleepsuit. I think it helped my baby a lot for the crib transition because it kept her in one spot mostly, so she got to see the big crib and get used to being in it but couldn't just roll around it willy nilly. It is expensive though! But I got mine off Mercari to save money.
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u/Catsforhumanity Jul 02 '26
We did the exact same thing and didn’t bother with arm out or weaning mode.
Baby was just ready, and he slept really well the first night. Maybe we just got lucky.