Used to self settle now won’t!
I sleep trained my baby at around 6 months and it was very successful up until around a month ago where she was a little unwell and I cuddled her to sleep, now she has got used to that and will absolutely not self settle despite multiple attempts the last few weeks. I used the Ferber method when she was 6 months (don’t want any opinions on this I know it’s not for everyone) and I have tried that same method again a couple of times recently with no success (I give in after about an hour of crying and screaming). I also feel like when I go in to try settle her she is then more upset when I leave than she was before i entered the room but I also don’t want to leave her crying too long 😵💫
Any advice?? Do I just continue with the Ferber method and grin and bear it until she’s back to self settling or is there something else I could try doing? I feel like she took to it a lot easier at 6 months whereas now she is putting up a huge fight!
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I'd try a gentler method. My daughter used to self settle really well, we'd pop her in her cot and she'd drift off. When she was about 11 months, she started really screaming and crying when we left her room. We started lying beside her cot while she went to sleep. The first night she thought it was a game and she kept looking out through the bars of the cot, second night she was asleep after 10 minutes. Our plan was to gradually stop doing this but we had other spanners in the works with multiple colds and travel. We still lie with her while she falls asleep but we like it now. There are other gentle sleep training methods you could try if you want something more structured. Lucy Wolfe is a good one.