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[Kamaikia]

I have gotten my son into a terrible routine - well not exactly terrible as it was great for awhile but now I want a change.
My son is 15 months old and sleeps like a trooper. At least 12 hours at night and anywhere from 2 - 4 hours over lunch time.
His lunch sleep he just lays down with a bottle and goes to sleep. But night time he wants me to lay down with him. Never takes long but I have had enough. He sleeps with me - and I'm happy to continue that. I would just like to get him into a better pattern at night so that I can leave him occasionally and feel like a person not just a mother.
I need advice if anyone has got any. Controlled crying is not my thing though so any other advice would be great

[Rainbowbrite]

We also co-sleep & I would love to learn how to teach MJ to self settle. Like you I would never let MJ cry.

Sorry I'm no help, but i'll be watching to learn also.


Goodluck
RB

[Peaceangels]

We have just been through a stage with DS2 (21mths) whereby he just didn't want to go to bed at night alone.

We tried laying with him, but he just thought it was playtime. We then tried a technique similar to supernanny - one of us would put him in bed then sit on a chair in the middle of the room, not facing him and not saying a word (so he knew we were there) and stay there till he fell asleep.

Gradually over a few nights we would move the chair closer and closer to the door and then eventually to outside his room until (after a few weeks) we didn't need to be there at all.

I have also been meaning to buy a lava lamp, so that he could watch that as he was going to sleep (hopefully to distract him) - worth a try - a friend uses that for her little boy - works a treat!

[Chickadee]

We have been cosleeping recently but yesterday I tried similar to Peaceangels suggestion. Chloe just wouldn't stop playing for her afternoon nap so I got up and stood in the door with my back to her for a few minutes, till she quit climbing out of bed :rolleyes: And then I moved away but kept walking through the hall and past her door every few minutes. She went to sleep on her own! Yay. But it didn't work at night which is when she needs the most help to sleep.

Don't some lavalamps get a bit hot to touch? I might be cautious with that one.