DS is 6 months. Slept great until about 15 weeks. Then we had six or so weeks of absolute hell. Then slept a bit better for a couple of weeks. Now we’re back to waking every 1-1.5 hours (or every 10-20 minutes if put down in the cot) and only settling with a feed. I’ve finally managed to get him to accept sleeping in the cot again by buying a sleepyhead (at great expense!). I have no issue feeding him at night but bloody hell I would kill for even a three hour stretch of sleep. He’s just completely forgotten how to link his sleep cycles at all. Co-sleeping just isn’t a viable option anymore as he’s massive, I get ridiculously hot and uncomfortable and he wriggles so much! (And it doesn’t help him or me sleep anyway).
I never thought I’d be thinking about leaving him to cry but tbh I think I’d be a much nicer mum (and more sane human being) if we were getting some more sleep, and I feel like a few days of distress for us all would be worth the long term gain. He’s in our room as my experiment with moving him into his own room was disasterous... I’m not sure how this would work with CC/sleep training.
Can anyone offer any advice or experiences?