Help with new bedtime routine

[gigi556]

We had come on leaps and bounds with DSs sleep and prior to Christmas we were down to 2x night feeds. It all went to hell over the holidays with going away abroad and teething. He's 7 months and back to waking every 1 or so. He often won't settle without a feed even though he did settle on his own during the day previously. I want to nip this in the bud when we get home next week once's he's over the jet lag. I think I need to stop feeding to sleep and ditch the dummy. I don't think it was causing problems before but now I think it might be. I'm a little concerned about doing this as he sometimes wakes up screaming and I'm not sure how to settle him without these tools. Any success stories?

Our current bedtime routine is bath, pjs, book, boob. When is a better time to nurse if I want to stop doing it to sleep? Before the bath???

Yeah try before bath or the book perhaps and see how it goes

8 months = development leap, separation anxiety and sleep regression.

Ride it out.

Copy the woman on fb who puts ten dummies in the cot!! My ds could put his own back in at 7 months!!

I feel your pain...only just trying to get 10 month Dd to sleep in own cot ... I swear she's laughing at me...

@TittyGolightly he's only just 7 months... I don't think my sanity can ride it out. It's like he's a newborn all over again. My personality doesn't allow for do nothing. In any case, we are so thrown out of our routine from the travel we have to get back into some kind of routine so may as well start again with how we intend to move forward.

It can hit any time between 7 and 10 months. It’s a normal development phase. However inconvenient it is to you you can’t train your baby out of it.

@Smurfy23 Ok, thanks think I'll try that

@Figrollsnotfatrolls I'm not sure that would work :( The dummy seems to work sometimes but I don't think he'd look for it. He actively takes the dummy out and screams. I have to really work to get him to take it so it seems like we might be better without it.