So I have a 7 month old velcro baby who really suffers with separation anxiety from the early evenings into the night. He is fine in the day.
He is breastfed and doesn’t take a bottle - we have tried and continue to do so. This doesn’t stop me from leaving him for an 1-2 hours during the day but I’ve never been able to leave him for any length of time and don’t feel I can leave him in the evenings. I anticipate that will improve as he moves onto solids so that isn’t my main concern.
We co-sleep and have since birth. With my first I fed to sleep and transferred him to the cot no issues. This baby wakes the moment he’s in a cot and cries for me. I don’t “put him to bed” he clings to me all evening and we usually go to bed together at 8.30-9pm. He wakes 3-4x to feed. If not more.
My toddler goes to bed at 7 and sleeps through.
I am really missing that part of the evening where it’s just me and I can decompress after a day juggling both kids and everything else that comes with it. I’d also love to be able to go for dinner once in a while. Even when I do a homework out he has to be able to see me!
How do I get him out my bed? We had a Co-sleeper cot which he didn’t like. I’ve now put a big cot in our bedroom a few feet from the bed. I was hoping he’d like the softer mattress.
We did the disappearing chair technique with our first which worked a treat but then never had any issues getting him in the cot in the first place.