Our kids are great sleepers! Rowan currently gets up twice-ish per night, but he always goes back to sleep on his own, and never with much fuss at all. I honestly don’t know if we’ve ever rocked him to sleep. He just sleeps. Awesome sauce.
But I’ve started to notice something about his beds. He sleeps in his cradle in our room for night, which has a thin little foamy mattress inside. For his naps, we put him in the crib in the older kids room, so we can watch him on the monitor. That crib has a fairly firm mattress. Both beds just have a regular sheet on them, no extras really at all.
In the morning, sometimes Rowan wakes up a bit too early for me. I wait until he’s past the lulling in and out stage, and I know he’s good and awake. Now, we do not co-sleep, but those mornings, I bring him to the bed and lay him on Bradys side. Not under blankets, not even in my arms. He basically lays on the quilt. I bring him there so I can give him a soother and try to convince him he needs to rest a bit more. We never use the soother to put him to bed at night, but occasionally use one to hold him off for a bit, or encourage him back to sleep during naps and such. However, he falls asleep on his own. And sleeps for a few more HOURS.
This morning, we had the same set up, and after a while, he started to move a little. So I secured his soother in his mouth, and lay my chunk of the quilt over top of him. I KNOW! It sounds unsafe, but it wasn’t. His soother is one of those cute ones with the little stuffed animal hanging off of it, so I wrapped the quilt overtop of his chest and the stuffed lambie. His eyes immediately rolled back and he was out. FOR ANOTHER HOUR!
So what this boils down to is the fact that Rowan is sooo comfy in a softer bed. I’m not suggesting I surround him in quilts in his little cradle or anything, but is there any harm in laying some squishier blankets underneath him? Or something like that?! Laying him in his crib feels like I’m laying him on a hard floor 🙁 He’s not at a stage yet where I’m worried about him grabbing things and not being able to control where they go, but he’s not far off from that really either.
Any suggestions on how I can make my baby’s bed more comfy without making it unsafe?
The things that came to mind is either putting a mattress pad under the sheets or if you already have one and it’s not working and you do use some other type of padding put it under the sheets and it should still be safe (in my opinion).
I brought both kids to bed with me in the am after justin went to work. Some people say it’s unsafe but it worked out for us
I hadn’t considered putting the padding under the sheets until after I posted this, haha! But I think that may just be the answer. I sleep on a super plushy mattress myself, and I can’t imagine sleeping on such a hard bed! I’m pretty confident we’ll add a little something to his bed 🙂
Part of it might be the smell. You could put something that smells like you in with him. I used to just take my shirt off and put it in the crib with my kids (they were swaddled so couldn’t reach but close enough to smell it)
Oh thats so sweet!! That might be a nice little extra for him 😉 Good call.