Trouble sleeping since starting nursery

[teburne]

Hi, this is my first time here.

My Boy's first year has gone pretty smoothly. We've got him going down very quickly at night and self settling (we did a bit of controlled crying it out at aprox 8 months).

This week he started nursery (just 2 days a week). He's been a bit sad when we leave and pick him up, but it sounds like he is doing reasonably well there - not crying all the time, having some little naps, trying food and doing a good job of exploring and playing.

Since starting nursery though, he has begun having trouble sleeping at night. he has been going down well, but after an hour he starts waking up crying frequently. I've been going up to reassure him, and although he still cries as i walk away he has been going back to sleep. He is waking up a lot though! at least every half an hour at the moment!

Anyone else been through this? Anyone got any good advice for me?

I'm sure he is fine really, just going through separation anxiety but we hate to hear him sad, and right now no body is getting any sleep!

Can you just stay with him a bit longer at night. He's probably just missing you and knows he can get you at night. I've heard if a few similar situations when mums go back to work. Give him extra special mummy time before bed - for a while when I went back to work I co slept it helped me miss ds less to. It's hard for both being away and adjusting

That is pretty much what we are trying now. When he wakes up me or my partner cuddle him back to sleep (for about 20 minutes) then we put him down to sleep.

This seemed to work better last night. It feels like a backwards step to rock him to sleep in the night, but I guess we just have to tackle one thing at a time and for now we have to help him get used to nursery. Once he is happier with nursery we can try getting him to sleep though again.

DD had a short bout of this when she went up to 3 days from 1 day recently. It only lasted 2 weeks. Just give plenty of reassurance - we found that lying beside the cot for 20 mins or so helped. She didn't even have to be asleep when we left, just calmer. No talking or stimulation, just being there.