My Son Hates His Crib!

I find that if i put my son to sleep first then i put him in his crib he will stay there and sleep through the night.

My son is 15 months old and he sleep in his crib now. Although he still cries sometimes when I put him in it. He has a leapfrog dreamscapes soother that plays music and has pictures that scroll, he loves it and so do I. I also have a disney lullaby cd that I play for him @ nap time and bed time. He also doesn't like to be in the dark so I have 2 night lights for him. That seemed to help him. I would try playing some soothing music for him. We also have the leapfrog hug and learn tad and he has a nighttime setting that plays lullabies. Good luck! I would get him used to being in his crib now though before he gets older it will only get harder. :)

I know it will be hard to do, but you have to let him cry it out! Eventually he will stop crying and just go right into his crib. My son was sorta like that at times and that was all I could do because you can only rock so many times and for so long and then every time I would get up he would wake up. Def. start now while he is young. My son just turned Two Feb. 10th

What exactly is going on? Is he crying when you put him down? That's actually ok that he cries. He's more mad that he's not with you. I know it's hard to hear the baby cry, my daughter is 15 mths old and still does it but only for a few minutes. A long few minutes for me. The crying makes you feel guilty, like you're ignoring him and he NEEDS you desperately, but like I said, he's more mad. Do you have anyone else around that could comfort YOU when he's crying? If not, put a headphones on and listen to music. I know, it seems like a really cruel thing to do, but it's really not. He needs to learn how to fall asleep on his own for when he's older. You're being a better parent for it. He still loves you and needs you, but you need to take back control. He's in control right now. Kids are smart cookies, he'll use this when he gets older with other things, like when you're in a store and he wants something he can't have. Tantrum City girlfriend. Well, good luck. I'm sending you a big hug for reasurrance that you can do it. : }

Try a playpen for a while.

I have a 11 month old son and he was the same way. He would sleep great in our bed but as soon as I put him in his crib he would scream. The day he turned 8 months I took his crib apart and just put the mattres on the floor. Now he'll go to sleep on that. If you need to just put a gate in the door so he don't crawl out. My son wont even get off it. He cries till I go get him off. Some babies just don't like being confined.

just put him in his crib and let him cry himself to sleep. i had the same problem with my daughter and thats what i did and it all worked out.

My daughter is 7 months old as well and also had issues with going to bed at night or napping. The hardest thing was letting her 'cry it out' and finally go to sleep. It got to the point where I could tell from her types of cries if she was just fussing because she didn't want to be in her crib, or if she was really upset and almost hystarically crying to the point where she would get so worked up that she wouldn't be able to sleep... if it was that bad I would take her out of her crib and comfort her and explain it was nuh-night time and try putting her down again a little while later.

I also have found that putting her in her crib with a toy for a short time while I am doing things in her room (like putting away clothes, etc) has helped her to not see her crib as such a negative thing. She enjoys watching me move about her room and will sometimes become bored and play with her toy. She has a crib mirror that she plays with and a little baby doll that has a rattle in it that she has in her crib as well. We also have some soothing baby music that we play for her if all else fails. I try not to make her crib TOO fun as I want her to understand that it is a sleeping place, but so far things have worked out and she will even play for a bit in the morning ... I actually wake up to her babbling to herself rather than fussing to be removed from her crib. =) A great way to wake up!

I'd say that this took a good few weeks to a month before she got to this point. She still will occasionaly cry very hard and not want to go to bed, but overall we have more good days than bad.

I hope this helps! Don't get discouraged!