Not always.
CAr to pram is often OK becuase we keep moving very quickly.
DS1 was teh same though and I found it went in phases. FOr a long time he was imp[ossible then all of a sudden it became very easy to transfer him from the car to his cot, then hed go for a while where it was hard again.
I couldn't transfer in the early months, DS would always wake. Probably from 8 months onwards it started to get easier. If I'm t/f from car to cot at home 99% of the time I don't have any issues, but trying to transfer him anywhere else I would only have success 15% of the time.
I've been really lucky. Even at 2 years I can still transfer my sleeping DS from car to cot and back but he has a soother which helps keep him drowsy (he's only allowed to have it when sleeping so associates it with sleep time). I have to try and keep him as horizontal as possible though as he will wake up if I lift him too upright or jiggle him too much.
DD is a mixed bag, and it depends on whether it really is nap time, how busy the road is etc.
BUT one trick I have, is to put her straight onto the boob (literally there in the back of the car) and carry her into the house feeding (obviously having unlocked the house first) and let her feed for a while and then transfer to the cot.
Never even tried car to pram...but I used to do car to sling a lot and sling to cot has always been easy.
Thanks for your replies - interesting to see that there really is a mixed bag when it comes to transferring!
I too have sat in the car for hours on quite a few occasions! Today I tried the transfer again (set everything up beforehand as suggested)....he woke, screamed, but thankfully, I was successful at putting him onto the boob when we got to his room, where he dropped off to sleep again....phew! That doesn't always work, perhaps its my timing as he'd only been asleep for 5-10 mins!
If only there was a magical, fail safe formula for figuring out our little bubs!
Well i learnt early on that you need to start doing this STRAIGHT away and they get used to it!!!
With my first DS there is NO WAY he would stay asleep, if i got home and he was still asleep i would drive the car out under the pergola and put the windows down and sit outside with him till he woke up!!!! Never left him alone or anything!!
Then with my next two babies i just started transferring then as soon as they were born and they were used to it!! Even now at 3 and 2 they will still stay asleep or open their eyes and i tell them to go back to sleep and they do!!
Start early that it the trick!!!! Worked for me anyway!!
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