HEEELPPPP I'm going crazy

For the first 6 months of my babies life i tried to do everything i read about that would be helpful for sleep. The last months regression, he fights naps, only wants to contact nap which he didn't need after 3 months, and is now cosleeping because night sleep is SO bad. I feel like this is the time to be teaching them more self settling and soothing but my little guy just cant. He needs to be fed or rocked or held. He was getting so so good at 1 hr naps alone, sleeping through the night. I feel like I'm losing it having to hold rock settle him all day and all night again and it feels NEVER ending. Its worse than when he was a newborn. Really struggling and need to know it gets better. Havnt slept well for months and its taking a toll on my mental health. I also can't stand to see him cry so CIO or sleep training is out of the cards for me

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You can sleep train without using the cry it out method ( I’m not about it either ) my daughter skipped a 4 months regression so when she had her 6 month it felt brutal. It does get better. Just be consistent, when he wakes at night leave the lights off and if you need to rock him back to sleep and just keep doing it. I know it’s tiring. If you can nap dying the day when he does it can help.

I went through the same ordeal with my son. It really does get better, I promise! It's just going to take time until he's out of it. What helped with my sleep/ sanity was napping when he napped. And I told myself to enjoy the contact naps while he's this little because he's not going to stay this little for very long and won't always want to nap together. After my son was through his regression, we went back to sleep training. This has helped with all regressions up to this point and he's 13 months now.

So I’ve started to put my LO down right when he is closing his eyes. It’s been working for the past two days.

Don’t get me wrong he will open them and cry then I pick him up until he stops then put him down and rock the crib then pick him up when he starts to cry and after a couple of tries I’ll walk around holding him until I feel his head start to get heavy then I go to put him down and rock the crib or pat his butt

Oh and I also put on YouTube this video because I get out of breathe shushing.

https://youtu.be/FEFzYY8bmw0?si=kE6PHeND15tOp1DJ

So far the time to get him to sleep without me getting in the crib with him has dropped

I would encourage you to read about different sleep training methods. We used the method in which we went in every 3 minutes then every 5 then every 7 and you keep increasing it. It took about 2 days to reach our son to sleep on his own.

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