Self soothing help

So my LO had been sleeping super well the last couple weeks and only getting up once to eat and if he did wake up more he would readjust and put himself back sleep or I could pat his bottom and he’d fall back asleep. He’s almost 6 months old and I’ve always fed him to sleep but last night and tonight he has been waking very frequently and has needed extensive help to fall asleep again. If I try to leave him in his bed and pat his bottom like I had been he starts screaming and crying and moving all around kinda frantically. The only way I’ve been able to calm him quickly is to feed him to sleep again. I know what my problem is but I could really use some help slowly teaching him to be able to put himself to sleep again. He still sleeps in the same room as me and is right next to me. I can’t stand the cry it out method but I can’t keep feeding him to sleep every hour or two. Any tips and tricks would be so greatly appreciated. Thank you

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I hate saying this because I know you said you hate the cry it out method but that is what I used to teach my daughter how to self soothe. When she was learning how to self soothe I’d set a timer on my watch for 5 minutes and if she was still crying I’d go in and check her diaper/feed her for 5 minutes and then put her back in her crib. Does your baby boy do this with naps during the day and are you able to slowly transition him to his own room?

@ToriHe doesn’t do this with naps. I don’t feel comfortable having him in his own room yet due to it being on a different floor than our room.

@Morgan I’ve heard that cutting off a minute of the feed every day until you get to 0 is helpful? I’ve never tried that idea but it sounds like it would be worth a try. I hope you find some help and get back to getting some good sleep!

We went through the same thing leading up to 6 months and now we are slowly getting back to longer stretches of sleep. I just assume that their body goes through its own cycle and will balance out eventually! I do back pats / rubs when he first wakes up to see if he just needs some extra help, and then give him a few moments to wiggle around, if that doesn’t work I assume he’s hungry and feed to sleep. Sometimes he just needs a hand getting settled and sometimes it’s actually a feed.

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