Sleep training 😭
So currently tackling moving rooms and sleep training. My LO has been very hit and miss with sleep for the past couple of months and everyone is exhausted including him! Im not keen on sleep training but decided to attempt a gentle method by using the pick up, put down method, as I feel this allows me to feel I am teaching him a skill and doing it WITH him rather than leaving him to cry it out. I am much more comfortable with this. I’ve used it for nighttime and naps, but currently only on night 2 and I am done with it. The method is so incredibly gentle but my little one still cries during it as he just wants to sleep but can’t when he knows I’m going to put him down and leave the room. He wants to be cuddled and I want to cuddle him. All my instincts tell me when he calms down in my arms, that it’s where he should stay until he is fast asleep. I am finding it so upsetting and hard to see him cry because of something I am doing, but I do want him to gain some independence and sleep better for everyone’s sake. Any advice or words of wisdom from those who have tackled this before? Thanks!
P.s any other suggestions of different gentle methods of encouraging independence are welcomed, as perhaps the PUPD method just isn’t for us!
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We’ve done PUPD but just at nap time and bedtime and not through the night, generally in the night well give him a quick cuddle and he’ll go off or be sleepy after a bottle. At nap time when we started I gave us a 30 minute limit and if he wasn’t asleep then I’d rock him. It was a hard maybe 5 days but he soon got the hang of it
I know its not what you are looking for but i will say that cosleeping saved my nights! I will always try to put her down in her bed when she wakes at night and settle her but then will just go and sleep with her as it saves both of our sanity and sleeps 🫶🏻
I’d say follow your instinct. It’s there for a reason.
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Aww bless you! I understand how you feel because I am going through the exact same. I don’t have any words of wisdom except that we wait until he’s tired and I half feed him to sleep so that he’s a bit drowsy. He does go down quicker and without a cry if he’s tired. He’s caught a cold recently so he’s back to sleeping with me I just couldn’t deal with the crying. Just a FYI it gets harder when they can pull themselves up and crawl in the cot so try and do it sooner rather than later if you can because watching them pull themselves up and cry looking like they’re in jail is the worst and crawl about whilst crying.