Reassurance/ advice needed!
My son has always slept fairly well, getting to the point where we generally only had one wake up and often had him sleep until 5:30am. However he never really learned to self settle and always needed cuddling to sleep so sometimes re settling after waking could take a couple of goes.
In the last month he has started teething 3 molars all at once, started at nursery a few weeks ago, has suddenly developed separation anxiety and unsurprisingly his sleep is now really affected. He’s waking multiple times a night crying and, although he goes down in his cot at bedtime, once he’s woken he won’t go back in again and so my partner or I end up having to co sleep with him in the pull out bed in his room. It’s not sustainable long term but right now we’re taking the approach that he temporarily needs additional reassurance and comfort - and we all need to do what’s going to get us all more sleep rather than stay up half the night battling to get him in the cot!
We’re hoping that as he starts to settle at nursery he will wake less frequently and then when his wakings are reduced and he’s feeling more secure (and his molars are through!) then we can look at some form of sleep training to get him back in his cot. Hopefully in about a month 🤞🏻
Are we doing the right thing or are we creating a rod for own backs by sleeping with him? It just doesn’t feel right to enforce sleeping in the cot when he’s going through a lot of change and is feeling so unsettled.