Hi! I am a new mom of a 3 month old, so I cannot speak from experience, however, just so we don't have any sleep issues, I have been putting my son thru Sleep Bootcamp this week. It has been hard and tiring, but I am seeing progress. I am following what is in the book called Sleeping Through the Night, by Jodi A Mindell (Amazon has this book). I have leared a lot from this book and there may be something in there that can help. Do you rock your son to sleep or feed him? This book talks a lot about babies learning to soothe themselves to sleep (with your help) so that when they wake up in the night, they can soothe themselves back. All babies, toddlers and adults wake up in the night. As adults we would have to be awake for 3 min or more to rememember this, but it does happen. We can quickly go back to sleep and that is what we need to teach our babies and toddlers.
If you would like to chat more, let me know. They say to start all this around three months, so I'm doing it now. My problem is my son hates his crib and would wake up every 1 1/2 hours screaming. He aslo doesn't go down to sleep real well in the crib (cries & screams) where in the car seat he went right to sleep. I put him in a car seat by chance and he sleeps 7-9 hours straight thru. This isn't the solution, long term, so I have had to try the crib now... and it's been trying, but I see improvement every time I do it.
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