*Made A Rod For My Own Back, that is!
Our baby is 10 months old, and we're trying to phase out co-sleeping. We've got a side-car cot, and I've arranged it so that the side is just a little way up above the side of the mattress, so that he can't sidle into our bed, but I can comfort him easily.
This has not gone down well. We did this several nights ago, but every night goes thusly: We come up to bed. Boy fusses and I give him a dreamfeed to help him sleep longer (hah!). I put him down in his cot. He wakes, cries, rolls around, gets up on hands and knees, squeals angrily etc for 10-15 minutes then falls asleep. At last, I think. Silence for a little while, then the whole bloody thing starts again. This can go on for a couple of hours, and longer. It's most fun when I think he's completely gone to sleep, and I'll do something stupid like going to the loo or rolling over then it all starts again!
Sometime during the night, I hook him over the cot side and end up co-sleeping anyway.
We're hoping to move him into his own room in the next month (we've been so slovenly and disorganised busy that we've not quite cleared it out yet), but am dreading it if just getting him into his own cot is this much fuss. I also suspect that I am going to miss the co-sleeping quite a lot, despite the disturbed sleep, but I really think it'll be better in the long run.
He's just learned to crawl as well, so am wondering if that is affecting anything. On the plus side, he's started to use a snuggly fabric lovey thing that does seem to help comfort him sometimes.
Do I:
a) Just need to persist and go slowly and it'll work eventually?
b) Go cold turkey - not co-sleep at all and keep him in his cot all through the night come what may?
c) get the passport from the loft and run away to somewhere foreign and hot until someone else has sorted it out for me?
d) none of the above, here is my brilliant suggestion!
I favour a) and c), but would love your help and consolation! Thanks!