Is there a correlation with contact napping and poor night sleep?

Does anyone here mainly contact nap but their little one sleeps through the night?

My Lo is really not a good sleeper at night, he wakes on being put down in the next to me the majority of the time, however will settle once held or fed, but wake again on transfer. He never used to be so bad at night time and would sleep in his next to me for a good stretch at first and then have more regular wakes but the last week or so he just wont go down and I've resorted to co- sleeping, which I think is just going to make things harder in the long run.

I've always contact napped unless he sleeps in the car seat or pram when out and about, has this caused the problem of him not wanting to sleep in the next to me as he is so used to my warmth etc? I just need a night uninterrupted sleep, 3 hours would be nice.

My lo is 23 weeks and breastfeed but we give one bottle of formula in the evening. He's currently napping on me now, I attempted transfer but he woke straight away, back asleep on my chest.

Any advice would be great 😬

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I am in the same boat.
My girl is EBF and was a pretty good sleeper from the get go but now isn't as good.
Every nap is contact, car or pram too.
I can get her in her next to me but it isn't as easy as it used to be so as of this week I've been getting her to practice falling asleep by herself.
Night one was awful and took 1 1/2h but night 3 (last night) took less than 20mins and she was able to settle herself. She is still stirring in the night but last night her teeth were particularly bad but with enough practice, nights should improve then we'll move onto naps.

Hope this helps. I am using controlled comforting sleep training method.

I don't think your doing anything wrong , not only is there the regression there's also a huge development leap straight after . Most on this group I get are struggling with false starts and cot sleep at the moment. It's tough but also normal xx

Yes, so if she was getting too distressed, I would resort to feeding again just to calm her and then try again until she eventually fell asleep. You have to expect some crying as you are changing what they are used to but if you're consistent enough, you'll see improvements quite quickly.

Its so hard because you're already tired and just want to sleep yourself so end up doing what you know works. I know I do anyway but a few tough nights will hopefully pay off in the long run.

Feel free to message me anytime 😊 xx

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