DS used to be an amazing sleeper, we got very lucky at the beginning. Whenever he had a small regression he’d bounce back quickly, and had always self soothed (rocks head, leg slams, strokes hair etc). Because of this we have absolutely no idea how to deal with the latest regression and are at our wits end.
He’s 10 months and the regression started over 8 weeks ago. We’ve had a house move and he’s been poorly, so we put some of the issue down to that. But it’s getting worse, he wakes every 20 minutes and hates going in his cot. He’ll nap in there fine in the day, and play happily, but at night he won’t.
We’ve tried:-
Reducing rocking
Put down drowsy
Put down fully asleep
White noise / music
Pitch black room
Night light
Not picking up just soothe (he just screams)
Changing bedtime
Reducing day naps
Dream feed / water / snacks
etc
I don’t want to co-sleep (no shame it’s just not for us) not that he settles in the bed anyway! We also don’t want to try cry it out, DS suffered awfully with colic for 6 months so we’ve had enough tears.
We are meant to be moving him into his own room soon but I can’t face it with all this problems. I just don’t know where to go from here.
Please help!!!