Please help me stop sending myself insane. My new DS (13 weeks) is a calm contented happy baby 90 per cent of the time. The exception is at nap and bedtime. He's a screamer - even if I pop him in his cot as soon as he yawns he's crying.
I've tried everything - rocking him to sleepy then putting him down, sssh-pat in the cot, leaving him for a few minutes to grizzle - every time he escalates pretty quickly to full scale screaming.
The only thing that works is feeding him until he nods off. He then sleeps beautifully, sometimes right through until morning.
I have no problem with this EXCEPT that everything I read says feeding to sleep is a Terrible Sleep Sin and by five months my baby will be awake every hour and he will never learn to go to sleep on his own and be sharing a bed with me when he's four.
Can you help me by sharing your experience? I feel really caught between a rock and a hard place. I love the calm and peace of feeding him down at bedtime but I feel like I am creating a world of pain for the future. He's so small I cannot leave him to cry but I feel like I am getting everything wrong and it's really making my head hurt.
I have a four year old too so lots of crying at bedtime isn't helpful for her when she's trying to sleep. She self settled quite early (thumb sucker) so this one is a different kettle of fish.
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Rosiep10 · 20/02/2018 19:35
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