Pls can I have some moral support, starting to teach DS 3mths to self-settle tomorrow!

[amazonianwoman]

I just can't take any more of cuddling/rocking/feeding DS (12wks) to sleep, only for him to wake within 10mins of his head hitting the mattress, or waking in his pram the minute I stop pushing and stick the key in the front door, or waking in his car seat the minute I pull up on the drive.

SO, tomorrow we start, except I'm not sure how??!! I don't want to do CC as he's barely 3mths (don't like it anyway and never had to resort to it for DD) I'm re-reading the Baby Whisperer and NCSS tonight for inspiration

Pls wish me luck! I have 4-5 days with DH at home to keep DD out of the way. How long do you think it will take til I can put him in his cot drowsy but not asleep so that he falls asleep himself?????

Not making any consistent progress here I'm afraid

Most days DS will still only sleep for 30-40 mins each nap, apart from last Saturday when I had a 2hr hair appt and had to leave DD and DS with DH, and he slept for 2.75hrs. Why can't he do that when I'm around??!! I wanted DH to see how hard it is coping with tantrumming toddler and grizzly baby!!

Still haven't cracked the self-settling either, unless he's in pushchair or car.

Have a feeling I'll be rocking him to sleep when he's 4...

Nairny - did it really work that easily following the BW? Well done you Re evenings - is he having a late afternoon nap? I find DS hard to settle at 7.30pm ish if he hasn't napped btw 5-6pm, even a short 15min nap seems to do the job!

Put down DS at 11am, woke after his usual 30mins, grumbling. I was too busy packing for hols to get to him (and he was doing my head in with his 30mins naps) so left him grumbling for 10mins (NOT full on crying, couldn't do that!) and........ he went back to sleep and is still asleep now.

TWO WHOLE HOURS - hallelujah

Just a little update, cos I'm jumping with happiness today

Had a nightmare week last week with hardly any sleep , having been on holiday the week before that.

Decided enough was enough and did pick up/put down this weekend as he's 4mths now. He self-settled once yesterday with no crying Woke at the ridiculously early hour of 9pm last night when I was out, so DH had to give him a bottle, then he stayed up til 10.30pm - then slept til 7.40am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I had to wake him for DD's nursery run At last!

He's self-settled twice in his cot today with only a little grumbling - I just left him to it and left the room

Happy happy happy

(Probably jinxed it and he'll be up all night and no naps tomorrow...)