Hi, don’t often post on here but feeling pretty desperate! Our baby boy is almost 7 months and just cannot stay asleep at night!
We moved him to his own room a couple of weeks ago and thought it may help, as our daughter slept much better once out of our room. The first night he actually slept through (!), then had a couple of nights only waking once or twice but is now back to always waking crying between 15 minutes and an hour after being put down. He can usually be settled quite easily and once back asleep be put back down. But he will always wake again after a similar period of time and at that point the only thing that resettles him is staying in our arms / bed.
Even once in with us, he wakes crying every hour through the night. He isn’t content with sleeping next to me / hubs either - he has to be under an arm / cradled which means we get no sleep because we’re so uncomfortable and often in pain with our backs due to the way we have to lay! This has been going on for months and we just don’t know what to do. Hub and me alternate who is on standby for him and therefore who sleeps with him but with a 21 month old too, we are exhausted! I’ve always thought of ‘cry it out’ as something we would never ever do, but now I think we would try anything to get a bit of sleep. Saying that, we couldn’t risk that method anyway as the last thing we want is two little ones awake ! Any advice / similar stories with light at the end of the (hopefully not too long) tunnel would be appreciated! TIA