Sleep training help!!

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Hi All

We have quickly found ourselves in a terrible pickle. Our DS is 6 months old and will only sleep in our bed! Between 4-6 months he would sleep from 10pm-6am no problem in his cot. I thought we were so lucky.

Then teething started and he began to wake frequently in the night. I would take him out his cot and feed him in our bed then put him back. However after the 3rd time of getting up I was too exhausted and would fall asleep and DS would be cozy next to us.

4 weeks on and he won't go down in his cot, the second I put him down even if he is fast asleep he wakes up and cries. In the end we are so exhausted we give in.

The other day I tried to let him cry it out and he was balling away for half a hour and each time I went in he'd look at me like I'd done something awful. We are currently dont have a spare room as we are helping out a friend with a place to stay as he is moving abroad in 5 weeks. Once he goes we can move DS into his own room but I want to crack this habit before then, if possible???

Can we have some tips and suggestions please?!!

First, don't worry, baby will eventually sleep alone. However the first step is to get him to go to sleep in his cot as transferring is the key issue. If you have space I'd get the cot alongside your bed and start getting baby to sleep there with you beside him and once you've cracked that move him and the cot into his own room.

Could you take 1 side off your cot, so it becomes an extension of your bedspace?

Sadly not, we don't have that type of cot. He won't even take his naps in it, I have to lie next to him if I want him to sleep!