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Post edited 7:44 pm – December 16, 2010 by alj
Post edited 7:44 pm – December 16, 2010 by alj

My daughter is almost 6 mos old.   She has been sleeping through the night since she was 2 1/2 months old.  During the day she takes two naps – one at 9:30ish and one at 1:30ish.  The naps can range from 1-2 hrs.  She usually will go to sleep for the night around 7:30 pm and will wake up around 6:30 am.  Sounds like we don't have a problem, right?  Well she has been sleeping in her car seat since she was 6 weeks old.  We have tried numerous times to try to wean her from it, but it hasn't worked.  Admittedly, we probably have been inconsistent because eventually we just need sleep and we know that putting her in the car seat will work.  She does take her naps at daycare in a crib, but not at home.  Does anyone have any tips on the best way to wean her from the car seat?  Has anyone else had a similar problem?  Since she is sleeping so well in it, I admit that we haven't been the most motivated to get her out of it, but now that she is more mobile, we know that we should!!!

Thank you for the advice.  She does sleep in her room everynight… we put the car seat in her crib.  She does play in her crib too – watches her mobile and projector.  We also bought a sleep wedge, so she is a little elevated, thinking that it may be too hard of a transition to go to lying completely flat.  We will try the crib sheet idea this weekend!  Right now her way to get drowsy is her bedtime bottle, but when I put her down last night in her crib drowsy she screamed bloody murder.  We tried patting her tummy, and letting her cry out for almost an hour – but it only got her more and more upset.  Her crib sheet was wet with all the tears and drool!  Eventually we caved and picked her up, it took us at least 30 minutes to get her calmed down and then we put her into the car seat where she slept for 10 hrs.  I do not think that my husband and I have the temperament for cry it out!