We broke our 7 month old...PLEASE HELP!

[LizP77]

Hi all,

We have a wonderful DS, almost 7 months old and has been a complete dream. We followed Gina's Contented Baby (controversially!), and he has been...until now!

We've just returned from a 12 day holiday, where we ended up bring him into our bed to avoid waking anyone in the next rooms with his crying for dummy / not been able to settle him. We knew we were going to pay the price when we got home!

Now, he won't go down at all in his cot...and he used to love being in there!

We are thing of trying controlled crying, but not sure how to do it...sounds pretty awful? Or, does anyone have any similar stories / good tips of how to get baby back into his / her own bed?

Thanks all...

Go back to square one. Do all the stuff you did first time round to get him to settle.
If it worked once, it will work again.

Just stick with it .

Why can't he just sleep in your bed?

It probably wasn't GF that made your baby contented, and he isn't broken because of a few cuddles on holiday.

Babies do change their sleeping patterns as they grow and develop. My baby slept through between 6 weeks and 24 weeks without GF or Baby Whispering or whatever it is called. He is 18 months now and sleeps very badly.

Don't get stressed about it, he'll get there in the end. What's wrong with having him in bed?

Just wanted to add - the reason for the hollow laugh was that my DCs sleep routines changed really often. Every time I would get them settled, they would have a cold or teethe or something, and we'd have to start again.

It's a regular part of parenting.