Hi all, hoping you can share some experience.
DS is now 13 months, from birth he would only ever sleep on us, or fed to sleep, or bouncing on a yoga ball. This was killing us and eventually at around 6/7 months we found that a cuddle would work. We have reached a stage where he is regularly sleeping through the night, but getting him to sleep initially is a nightmare.
Been on solid routine since day one. Book, bath, bottle, bed. After bottle we are finding he jabbers, cries, tantrums. We end up trying to calm him for 30/40 minutes most nights, sometimes this works but mostly DW/I give up and ask the other to try.
He has two good naps every day, approx 1h15m each time. Rocked to sleep in pram.
I personally think that some form of sleep training would be good for him. I think he needs to learn to drift off himself and we are just enabling this with sleep associations. DW doesn't seem convinced and wants to persevere, I will stand by her and not force the issue...but I have explained that if we keep doing the same things (which don't work anyway!) nothing will improve. DW did try sleep training him a while ago as I was abroad on business but it didn't go well, we had a heatwave that week and he probably just wasn't ready so I think she has bad memories and that's why she is hesitant.
Tonight we have now been trying to get him to sleep for a whole hour, looked on monitor and DW has just climbed in to cot with him...and he is now chatting to her 