Please help me if you can...
I have a 1 yr old with sleep issues. The short version of the story is that up until 9 months we had worked out his sleeping issues, and he was easily going to sleep on his own. But at 9 mos. he went on strike due to illness and some other stuff (too long of a list) and has not nursed since. This changed our method of putting him down...we started rocking/walking him to sleep and putting him down once he was totally out. And I'm happy to do this except the situation is getting worse.
Basically he is becoming more and more fidgety before going to sleep, he is waking up A LOT more now, and it is taking longer to get him down with every week that goes by. I really don't know what to do any more.
He has reflux so I can't let him CIO (not that I want to, I regret ever doing it in the first place...please no flames, I truly didn't know any better at the time). I have the No Cry Sleep Solution book, but there doesn't seem to be much in there to help our situation. Believe me we've already tried most of her suggestions.
So I guess I'm looking for more alternatives. It's starting to really make me crazy to have to get up every 2 hours all night long and spend 30-45 minutes just to get him back to sleep. I feel like I have a newborn all over again and I'm just as sleep deprived.
Please help me in any way you can. Even if all you can tell me is when this will end?
Thanks.
I have a 1 yr old with sleep issues. The short version of the story is that up until 9 months we had worked out his sleeping issues, and he was easily going to sleep on his own. But at 9 mos. he went on strike due to illness and some other stuff (too long of a list) and has not nursed since. This changed our method of putting him down...we started rocking/walking him to sleep and putting him down once he was totally out. And I'm happy to do this except the situation is getting worse.
Basically he is becoming more and more fidgety before going to sleep, he is waking up A LOT more now, and it is taking longer to get him down with every week that goes by. I really don't know what to do any more.
He has reflux so I can't let him CIO (not that I want to, I regret ever doing it in the first place...please no flames, I truly didn't know any better at the time). I have the No Cry Sleep Solution book, but there doesn't seem to be much in there to help our situation. Believe me we've already tried most of her suggestions.
So I guess I'm looking for more alternatives. It's starting to really make me crazy to have to get up every 2 hours all night long and spend 30-45 minutes just to get him back to sleep. I feel like I have a newborn all over again and I'm just as sleep deprived.
Please help me in any way you can. Even if all you can tell me is when this will end?
Thanks.