I feel like it should go without saying, but no judgement please 👎🏼

I’m going to say this right off the bat in case people don’t read the whole thing: we are not interested in crying it out or extinction🙅🏻‍♀️

That being said, I am a FTM, and I’ve been bed sharing with my LO for the last 4 months (she’s 8mo now).

She has started crawling around the bed in her sleep (totally normal from what I’ve been reading 🤷🏼‍♀️) but I’m afraid she’s going to take a dive off the side! We have blankets stacked up on the edge and on the floor, but it doesn’t ease my mind all that much now that she’s crawling around the bed.

I usually wake up every time she moves around, but I’ve had to pull her away from the blankets every night this week. I’m scared I’ll be so out of it some night & won’t notice :c

SO!

I’m interested in the best ways to transition from bedsharing to her own crib (might be worth mentioning that we’re still breastfeeding up to 3X/night)

The mini crib is already in our bedroom, I stick her in the crib so I can do my morning self-care routine and at other times throughout the day so she’s used to being in it.

Every. single. time I try to put her down in the crib, she wakes up almost immediately and won’t go back to sleep.

I have tried sleeping with her mattress cover so it smells like me, putting her down awake, drowsy, or fast asleep. I’m at a loss and ready to be done being nervous going to sleep 😭

Any advice, tips, or tricks?