No Cry Sleep Solution - help needed!

[vinocollapso]

Has anyone else used this? I started a few nights ago and am already seeing results, especially with naps, but today something weird happened and I'm hoping someone can advise!

I half-sooth 6 month DS to sleep at nap time and he goes to sleep like a dream, but the minute I put him down in his cot he starts doing very active leg lifts, thumping on the matress which instantly makes him bang awake.

It took me three attempts to get him down for his morning nap (and he slept for 45 minutes, yeah!) - but the last nap was a nightmare. We started at 3.30, but after 5 attempts, I ended up letting him sleep on me for the remainder, otherwise we were edging into that 5pm time.

He very rarely sleeps on me, so I figured, what the hell.

But what I need to know is this - should I just keep trying to put him down if he's doing the leg lifts and leave him, thus probably forfeiting a nap (yikes!), or just go with the flow and let him kip on me now and again until this passes?

The book says 'do anything and everything to get the naps in', but I don't want to let DS start sleeping on me again as it took ages to coax him off (though we still smooch occasionally as it's so nice!).

Any advice welcome!!

have a look in the sleep forum, theres a ncss support thread

I'd let him nap on you.

How many weeks is he? There's a developmental spurt around 26 weeks and in the run up to it, their sleep can be disturbed - this is exactly how my DS behaved in the run up to that spurt. (In fact, he was doing it last night, and he's working on the 55 week developmental spurt.)

My DS has had spells of something like this; it usually improves. I used to try to put him in his cot but would strategically capitulate after 3 failed attempts.

I also found that patting him as soon as I put him down helped. I had to stay and pat every time he twitched for a few days to get him to stay asleep, then he got the idea himself and was able to stay asleep without my help.

HTH

Thanks, mulimah28 - I'll go and check that out.

AngelDog - he's 26 weeks next week, so spookily that would make sense. At the moment he's waking every two hours and I'm trying not to feed each time, but it's tough.

Still, we'll get there!