My nearly 6 month year old's sleep went haywire at 4.5 months. Since then it's been up and down but recently pretty bad due to learning aload of new skills, the heat and him being ill all in quick succession resulting in me being pretty sleep deprived. I'm hoping things will improve once he's better and when the weather gets a little cooler next week but it's affecting my mood and I'm finding it hard to trust my instincts with how to move forward.
My overriding instinct is to just roll with it - keep doing what we're doing which is feeding to sleep as it settles him really quickly and just see what happens once we introduce solids next week and move him to the big cot as he's getting a bit too dextrous to be in the next to me. However I keep getting freaked out by reading stuff online about how if we don't train him soon we've created a rod for our backs/ he won't sleep well for years etc. Then you look at the other side and get freaked out too - sleep training will just teach him to be quiet but not to sleep and raise his stress levels. What the hell are you meant to do?! And that's without all the comments from family and friends. How do you know what to do/trust your instincts around this stuff?
I've suffered a bit from mild PND and lacking confidence in what to do is a big trigger for me...