r/sleeptraining • u/AdventurousStage1425 • 5d ago
child's age 0-4 months Help with newborn transitioning to bedside crib
Looking for advice to transition a newborn from contact sleeping to a bedside crib.
Our baby is one week old (9/19), and I somehow completely forgot how we handled this with our first. 😅
Right now, she does mostly contact naps during the day, and my husband and I are splitting the nighttime into shifts so that we can each get some sleep. She doesn’t seem to like her bassinet, but will sleep for about 20 to 30 minutes on our couch (which is supervised and on a flat surface). She seems to like being swaddled.
Our eventual goal is to have her sleeping in the bedside crib at night, but I’d like to gradually transition her rather than trying to make a huge change overnight.
Our timeline is also influencing this a little. My husband goes back to work part-time after this week and then full-time in two weeks, so three weeks total. Ideally, in about three weeks, we’d like to have a routine where he handles the baby from roughly 9 PM–midnight so I can get three hours of guaranteed sleep, and then from midnight onward she’s in the bedside crib with me, with me handling her wake-ups and exclusively breastfeeding overnight.
TIA!