DS is 14 months old, and after a lot of sleep disruption (hourly wakeups, bedtime battles, would only nap in the pram) we eventually managed to get him going down awake and sleeping in his cot at night time and for his naps when he was 11mo.
About three weeks ago he was very poorly with hand, foot and mouth, and we reverted back to helping him to sleep, by letting him feed to sleep (he is BF) or rocking him when feeding to sleep wouldn’t work. After about 10 days we managed to get him back on track with going down awake easily. Once he was better I just tried one evening and he went off to sleep after laying in his cot playing with his teddies with no issues.
Last weekend we got married and stayed away with him Friday and Saturday night. He’s awful with sleep when away from home and it was very disruptive for him. Since we’ve come back home, I’ve not been able to get him to settle to sleep being put down awake for his naps at all, and only twice at bed time. The last few days have been particularly bad and I’ve spent around 5hrs a day helping him get to sleep across naps, bedtime and wakeups. He’s stopped feeding to sleep again (which is why we started putting him down awake in the first place) so I’m left rocking him for hours. He’s 24lbs and I’m only 8stone myself, so I’m left feeling exhausted and very achey!
Tried to put him down for his nap awake today and he just got so upset, so I gave in and rocked him.
I’m feeling so low about it. I can’t continue to spend hours every day helping him to sleep. I work part time from home and it’s just not possible to commit quite so much time to helping him, although of course will do it if it’s the only thing that will work.
please can I have your tips for getting him back on track/what worked for you!