My 5 month struggles falling asleep of a night, I’m really really struggling.. yesterday night I was really overwhelmed and came downstairs with the baby monitor and set a 5 min timer.. just before the timer went off he was fast asleep!
Tonight I was struggling again done his whole bedtime routine, bath, book, white noise, feeding, cuddling, rocking and I took the baby monitor downstairs and set a 5 min timer and he’s fast asleep right before it went off.
I know I’ll probably get loads of hate for this, but is this really bad for him to let him cry for 5 mins? I won’t continue to do this if it is and I never usually let him cry but I can’t seem to soothe him, for reference I’ve tried staying next to him with my hand stroking his head and my presence seems to upset him more and when I pick him up he cries even worse the minute I put him back down.
I never ever done this with my other son as he’s always been a good sleeper.
Am i damaging him letting him cry for 5 minutes is this really awful :( ?