I took my 5 month old to a family friendly festival last weekend and we camped for two nights.
He took to it really well - napped in his pushchair whenever he needed to. In the evening I put him in his pjs and snuggled him up in his pushchair and he'd go to sleep at his usual time (about 7:30-8) while we walked around the festival and saw acts / had dinner etc.. he'd wake for a bit and then go back down for the night when I returned to the tent about 10:30/11. He slept surprisingly well in the tent even though it was a bit chilly - he only woke for one other feed over night and I brought him in with me then to keep warm. I really thought we'd done amazingly. The second night though it rained and the noise woke him up at 6:30am and he couldn't go back to sleep because it was chilly/light/noisy
He is (was) a very predictable baby and in a nice routine (3 naps a day, 2 hours wake time, 3 hours after last nap in bed) - goes down for naps and bedtime easily, self settles etc… but since we've been back he's been refusing naps, waking up crying, refusing to sleep in his cot, doing a mixture of much longer/shorter naps, very grizzly, constantly rolling over into his tummy (he does this when he's very tired) and generally being really out of sorts.
I feel awfully guilty that taking him out of his routine at such a tiny age has messed him up like this - he never cries usually so to see him crying and struggling to get to sleep when he's so clearly tired is distressing for us both. It's like he's regressed and forgotten how to to it.
I've ended up feeding/cuddling to sleep and having to sit with him while he naps on the double bed in the dark with white noise on. Last night at bedtime I let him fall asleep on the boob and slipped his fingers in as the nipple came out and transferred him down whereas usually I'd just place him down after his feed and he'd roll over and get comfy and find his own fingers to suck off to sleep.
Has anyone had experience with completely flummoxing their baby? How long do you think it will take him to normalise back? If I carry on feeding to sleep and letting him sleep on the double bed will he form this as a new habit? I'm keen not to waste all my hard work from before getting him self settling/into his cot.