7 month old forgotten how to self settle

[Blu3Bell]

7 month old used to be able to self settle for night time sleep, after working on it for a few months.

Routine is bottle, book, song, then into cot. Sometimes they fell asleep during routine, if not it would take 5-10 mins for them to fall asleep. For a few weeks now (since starting with 2 almost back to back colds and teething) they've fallen asleep on the bottle so I've finished routine with them sleeping then placed into cot. Last 3 nights they have been awake when going into cot and immediately started screaming, ending up being held to sleep.

Do I have any chance of them being able to self soothe again? I'm devastated they've gone back to being so distressed and I'm worried about more night time wake ups. Any hope or advice appreciated x

I read somewhere that it takes atleast the time they were ill for again for sleep to get back to normal.

They sound like they still want/need the comfort. You’ll probably need to slowly built up to them going to sleep on their own again if that’s what you want.

Too young to self settle!!!

No it's not!!!

Rubbish.

Thanks @MarigoldSpider that's useful to know

@SwordToFlamethrower It's obviously not, because he used to do it and it worked really well for us. Having no tears and stress at bedtime without having to go through CIO is amazing and self settling is key to that for us.

I found this happened during growth spurts and developmental leaps, and did pass. The wonder weeks guide was useful for knowing roughly when to expect these. Gradually they spaced out more and more. I never did any CIO or anything along those lines, and found it still happened during these changes.

I'm impressed a 7-month-old ever knew! Jealous. Very likely to be developmental at that age. I bet it'll settle again. Then get worse again... then settle again....don't despair! He may still be teething too but not visibly rn?

Though if he's staying asleep after being held to sleep and put down I'd say that's still pretty great and I'd just do it. Important to gentle through these phases imo.

@Blu3Bell How are things going? I’m going through something similar with my 7 month old

@CM327509 There's generally been much less screaming at bedtime (exception being bad teething days and another bad cold) although they are now asleep 99% of time when going into cot due to exhaustion from nap refusal.

However he's going through a 4am wake up phase (mostly because he's pooped and then refuses to understand its not time to get up for the day) and one morning last week he loudly cooed himself back to sleep! So I'm presuming his ability to self settle is fine, if he's not got anything else going on x