pw today! Sleep woes

zazzu

W is giving me hard times with naps. For the last week he has been taking 1 nap a day averaging 30 minutes. He fights going to sleep so bad. For the past week he's been waking up as soon as I lay him in his crib to nap, then he's wide awake. He falls asleep on me after a bottle or nursing, then I try to lay him down. This had been working for the last few months. He's in his room chitchatting now after only snoozing for 10 minutes after nursing. I desperatly needed him to nap today. I couldn't fall asleep til 3am, even though he sttn, and I am really really tired. Dh is pretty good at jiggling him to sleep, so he doen't seem to understand why it doesn't work for me. W acts totally different for him on the weekends. I've tried a little CIO and he cries moderatly for over 30 minutes. He doesn't quit, but it never gets super escalated either. I just give up when I realize he's not going back to bed. Blah! Sleep woes suck.

Seattle_JiLLn

How do you put him down at night?  Does he fall asleep in his bed or on you?  If there's one thing I would do differently it would be to try to teach Cooper to fall asleep in his bed earlier.  I'm doing it now so he's a lot older but you could try it - I put him down and then I lay on the floor by the bed... so it ends up sort of being a CIO thing, but I'm not leaving him.  He has stopped crying now - well sometimes he cries for less than 2 minutes just to remind me that he thinks this plan is stupid - but then he lays down and falls asleep.  I need to start doing it for naps now too.  But I'm lazy.

tfarabians

Ha I just bought the revised copy of Ferber's solve your child's sleep problems and we will be starting it next month.  Ugh sleep is tough, I hope you get it figured out, I obviously do not lol!