16 month now won’t sleep without me being in the room

[Franktank19]

My baby has always been a great sleeper and self settled. The past few weeks he now gets in such a state when I leave the room and I find it so hard to listen to him cry - he is hysterical. It is just me and him so can’t hand over and go for a walk - it’s very intense so I sit on the floor and hold his hand till he sleeps.
Any advice? Will he ever go back to self settling?

[DonaldTrumpsChopper]

We had the same thing with DS1, at roughly the same age.

It was not fun, but I cracked it by moving slightly further away each night. Story, song, then just sat in silence until he fell asleep.

It took a few weeks though.

[Franktank19]

Thank you so much I will try this