Hi all,
after some advice. I moved my son into his own room about 10 days ago, he was just shy of 8m old. Initially he seemed totally unbothered but now he is having lots of false starts at bed time and is waking hourly through the night.
he has never been a good sleeper - has always woken up at least twice, most often 3-4 times between - 10pm - 6am. He is breastfed and struggles to self soothe although he is just starting to do the occasional self soothe at night. I always try and leave him a few minutes before I go in and settle him - sometimes I have success with shushing and resting a hand on his chest, sometimes he needs the boob. I tend to co sleep with him from about 3am as i get so exhausted.
any advice? Is this developmentally normal? I am not going to sleep train him, I don’t feel comfortable with it so please no advice on this although I appreciate it would be from a place of trying to help.
I’m scared his sleep will never improve. I’m a bit lost now with it after reading so many conflicting things, I don’t know what to do and feel a terrible failure in regards to his sleep. I am also on my own and exhausted by it. I want to be present, with energy, but I am just drained the whole time.
thanks in advance.