DH decided he was going to 'do' controlled crying in the middle of the night with no word of it to me and poor DS didn't know what hit him.
DS is 15 months. Before Christmas I did some gentle sleep training with him for the first time. Very few tears, he got it quickly, cue 3 weeks of blissful bedtimes and nights with everyone sleeping.
First week back to work and DS picked up ANOTHER nursery cold (and gave it to me) Sleep habits went out of the window with coughing, temperatures and clingyness.
He's pretty much better now so we need to try and get back to his routine for his sake as much as ours. Last night I sat in his room as he drifted off to sleep in his cot rather than cuddling him.
Seems that in the night he woke up and I didn't (I've had consecutive colds with no let up since before Christmas and I'm on my knees). DH went into him instead. After drifting in and out of sleep to the sound of crying for who knows how long I finally woke up to the sound of DS screaming his head off. He was so worked up he as coughing like mad and could barely inhale. I couldn't bare to see him like that or lay in bed listening to the screaming. I intervened and settled him to sleep in his cot in 10 minutes.
I'm pissed off that DH just decided out of thin air that he would do this. I always put DS to bed and I sorted his sleeping last time. Just tried to put him down for his morning nap and he's more desperate to be cuddled to sleep than ever.
Am I BU to think that you don't just pull sleep training out of your arse in the middle of the night and actually have to think it through first? And that this is a massive set back that will cost us much needed sleep?