16 month old sleep training options?

[Rainatnight]

16 month old DS will only go sleep lying on someone. This is the case when he goes to bed at night but also when he wakes up in the night - can’t self settle at all.

He also needs a bottle at 5am and I’m keen to drop this.

I’d be really grateful for thoughts on any gentle sleep training methods that might work. Don’t want to do CIO.

Thanks.

Little bump.

We have started putting out 14 month old to bed awake in her well travel cot because she won't go in her actual cot 🤦🏻‍♀️ with a bottle. She cried for the first week but soon stopped. She still gets up most nights but sometimes will settle her self off to sleep x

Thanks for the reply. How long did you leave her to cry for till she went asleep?

Have a look at Sarah ockwell smith, she has some good gentle methods to help with sleeping

I'm probably the worst person to advice as my 9,6 and 4 to all are in our bed every night by midnight so it's not like we've had a massive success with sleep training. I never wanted to CIO. All of them went through a phase of only falling asleep on our chest. If I remember correctly we let them fall asleep there and gently rolled them back into bed and then started trying with them really close to us in bed and then a tiny bit further etc. It all started getting so much easier around when they were each two. The last bottle was first replaced by a bottle of water and then nothing. It feels so hard at the time and then few months later the situation will have changed completely. Good luck. Those first two years can be so exhausting.

@Rainatnight not long. I would go back in and settle her if I thought she was getting too upset. I actually find she needs a light on and it's no problem so we leave her light on till we go to bed then a night light after that. I started to put her in there on nap times first then we started bed time.

It's exhausting I know especially if you don't get much help like us. We've tried all sorts of bed time/sleep sprays and creams as well.