Getting Toddler to Sleep Alone (X-Pos… – Hip Mamas
Here’s our situation:
When the little man was a baby we did the Ferber CIO method and after some difficult nights he learned to sleep through the night and go down to sleep easily and happily. Once in a while there would be a disruption to routine or schedule, but he would easily get back on track within a night or two and would without any reluctance lay down and cuddle-up with his blankie & animal after our bedtime stories. He would fall asleep on his own in his crib and sleep through the night.
We then made a huge move across the country and the disrupption has been too much. He is now 23 months-old and does not like to go to bed. I tried to let him CIO one night, but I felt terrible and he was so unhappy. We just can’t do it! He was sleeping in our bed after the move, but is now in his own bed. I got rid of his crib and he now has a big-boy mattress on the floor. I can’t get him to lie in the bed alone to fall asleep. He either falls asleep on the couch or with me laying next to him at night (usually for at least 30 mins. before he’ll fall asleep.) He’ll then sleep in his bed until about 3:00 am at which time he cries for me and I get in bed with him. He’ll then go back to sleep next to me until morning.
My biggest concern is the getting him to go to sleep at a reasonable hour and eventually (not too far in the future) to be able to go to sleep without being laid down with.
Any advice is appreciated here! How can we get him to sleep better and especially go down to sleep alone?
I read The No Cry Sleep Solution, but I just have a hard time with the major routine involved. It doesn’t really work for our family to be so bound by routine with no room for spontaniety like company or evening walks, etc. Is set routine our only option to sleep learning?
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