DS 18mo has started to wake during the night and not go back to sleep for hours, he always was a terrible sleeper but from 12mo he got better and when he woke i could hand him a bottle and he would go back to sleep by himself.
Now when he wakes he wants to be cuddled which i don't mind we cuddle him to sleep anyway at bedtime the problem is i can't put him back down. The main reason is i'm very short and have to sort of drop/roll him into his cot which wakes him, also because i'm small and he's a big boy when i hold him in his rocking chair he can't get comfy on me.
A few times i have resorted to bringing him into the livingroom and laying on the sofa with him where he'll fall straight asleep but then i have the same problem of trying to move him and get him back to the cot. Last night it took an hour to let him get in a deep enough sleep to move him and this was after an hour of attempted to get him in his cot.
I don't want to do any sleep training as he goes to bed well and will fall back asleep quicky, tbh i cba with it and don't want to leave him crying it's just moving him thats the issue. Our beds not an option i can't sleep with him and DP in it they are to big and i get squashed and uncomfy. So i'm thinking of taking the side from his cot and getting a bed guard so i can just lie in with him then move myself once he's sleeping me moving once he's sleeping again is not a problem it's moving him so is this a good option or am i just going to get more problems?
I need to take the side off in the next few months anyway because he's getting to big to lift