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SLEEPYHEAD HACKS | TRANSITIONING TO THE COT
everyone welcome back to my channel
today I wanted to do a really quick
video with some quick hacks and tips as
to how we got Finn to transition out of
here sleepyhead to look into his normal
cut bed so I'm a big fan of the
sleepyhead I'll link the sleepyhead
review video that I did a couple of
months ago down below it basically saved
a bacon
the first night we got him home and put
him in the next me in the cart and he
was so tiny and he screamed all night
and it was just way too big for Emily
just felt swamped and tried to swaddle
him and it didn't work the second night
we put him in the sleepyhead on top of
the bed in the middle of us and he slept
like a dream and then the third night we
put him in the sleepyhead in the next to
me next to me and in the next next me in
the Chico next to me and he again slept
all night and ever since then he slept
pretty solidly between 8 and 10 hours at
night in solid chunks from day four so
it's been a massive massive help for us
in the beginning it was also great
because for the first eight weeks we
didn't really put into bed we would just
put him in the sleepyhead for naps
downstairs already put in the sleepyhead
for nighttime and keep him downstairs
with us and then once we were going to
bed we just lift him up and take him
with us so it's been absolutely fab but
that said it is meant to become not to
eight months asleep ahead to looks but
Finn is five and two or three quarters
nearly six months and he is well and
truly growing out of it I'll insert some
footage here so you can see I did unclip
and open the bottom to try and give him
a little bit more space but he saw so
started to roll a lot onto his tummy and
I just kind of wasn't comfortable with
him in it anymore so there are a couple
of things that we did before we took the
sleepyhead away the first thing is that
we use little if we had to transition
him from the Chico next to me into his
big bed when he was five months one week
or something like that so the safe sleep
guidelines he'll say six months but I
felt like he was ready and we were all
ready for a little bit of a better sleep
to be honest and we have had better
sleep since so he was in the sleepyhead
in his room for about two weeks before
we decided to take it away which worked
really well and because he came didn't
know any different he was just in the
sleepyhead it's the same as when we go
to moms we take the sleep head with us
and he has it the troubled kind he
doesn't know any difference that was
part of the reason why I wanted to take
this leap ahead away because as well as
I'm growing out of it and we also are
going on holiday to Cyprus and and he
was too big for it and the other reason
is that didn't want to buy the
sleepyhead ground and took a picture of
it here and it's a big investment it's
about two hundred and five pounds at
sleepyhead grand and it but it is from
eight to thirty six months well I didn't
want to do was buy it because we
couldn't take it on holiday with us it's
way too big it's like the size of a boat
and it would fill the entire crib and
it's also not great for transporting to
moms and it's just way too big I mean
the cost sort of defeats the whole
object and then what worried about was
once he was three then we would have to
transition him out of that and there was
no alternative after that so well he's a
little bit unaware and more resilient to
change I kind of wanted to get rid of it
altogether and otherwise it was before
tea and still in some sort of makeshift
bespoke sleepyhead thing so the second
thing we did to ease the transition was
we stopped using it for daytime naps so
during the day Fidan sometimes falls
asleep on his play mat or is in the
house falls asleep asleep ahead
I was actually physically putting him in
the cot and so that he could get used to
just sleeping in the car and a flat
mattress or any any other flat surface
so trying to pick him up and put him in
the cup of maps without the sleepyhead
worked really well so it was kind of
getting used to it and also I was up and
awake so if he did rolled onto his phone
or if he did roll and put his hands
between the bars I was there to sort of
like correct that for him and he wasn't
getting panicked
the main hack that I wanted to include
in this video and is one I found online
and it was real useful for us in the
first couple of days what you can do if
your baby is really little opportunity
to sort of transition out of this levy
head is you can take the sausage bit out
of the outside obviously we had so it
just unzips really easily like you would
take the cover off to clean it and using
the padding from the inside you can put
that would endure Neath the fitted sheet
in the car or in the bed and just
position it in an arch position like it
isn't actually but a slightly wider one
to allow you baby really
your baby's grown out of the sleepyhead
deluxe and then literally just attached
the sheet back under the mattress that
you would normally and place your baby
in the middle now this can obviously
grow with your baby and what you can do
what we did and found really useful was
we just moved it bigger and bigger every
night over the course of the week and
eventually you didn't need it at all and
got used to sleeping on the flat
mattress without it but it just sort of
helps ease that transition slightly if
you haven't got the sleepyhead to begin
with and you want to use something to
sort of cushion your baby and you've got
a newborn and you feeling like a little
bit lost in a big crib you can actually
use rolled-up towels underneath the
fitted sheet in the next to me or in the
car or in the Moses basket and it works
exactly the same way similarly it's a
great travel hat because you can be able
to do this on holiday and not take any
equipment with you the last tip and I
said this would be a short video because
I think if you're looking at this you
probably sleep deprived and you just
need short sharp hacks the last tip I
would say is to avoid your child get in
their arms and legs
not so much there's not a lot you can do
about that but definitely their legs
caught between the bars of the cart is
to put them in a sleeping bag now it's
been absolutely boiling in England at
the moment it's the height of summer
it's been the hottest summer we've ever
had so I have brought a sheet sleeping
bag that I've featured in my Jojo my mom
babe a hole and and it's really thin
cotton sheet completely breathable it's
just like we would use on holiday like
just a really thin sheet but it at least
is something contained in his legs and I
think to put him in just a nappy and
then the flat mattress so having nothing
around him and then also having nothing
sort of computer name was complete step
to valve in so making sure even if it is
boiling hot you put in some sort of
sleeping bag so they are my hacks and
tips the last thing that I would say is
stick with it so about Dave - when he
was a little bit grumpy still and hadn't
figured out the archon to the mattress
hack I've very nearly came and went and
bought the ground but I put it on my
Instagram quality on my stories and 100%
of people like don't do it stick with it
it's not worth it so I would say
sleepyhead is brilliant from her near on
stage but at six months or Eames or
however large babies when it grows out
of it I think it is pretty much time to
win
out of it and otherwise I think it would
become something they are depended on to
go to sleep these hacks are really
useful for me I hope they're really
useful for you if there's anything that
I've missed that you found useful please
link them down below or comment down
below and include your information so
that we can share it and help other
people if there's more of them I'll make
another video and include them and try
them out and see through it for us thank
you for watching I hope you enjoyed this
and I'll see you very soon bye
