| Hi- at seven months my son wouldn't go to sleep by himself and had to be rocked and rocked to sleep.
So many people told me to leave him to cry himself to sleep- we tried it once or twice but he would just cry, and cry for hours and be no closer to sleeping at the end of it.
In the end we just couldn't do it anymore, it wasn't working and it was heartbreaking to do.
What eventually helped our son sleep on his own was a dummy and a blankie and by 12 months old it was possible to put him to sleep in his cot with his dummy and blankie and he would fall asleep my himself. This also coincided with him weaning himself from breastfeeding, which is also when he started sleeping through the night! Something he never did until he wasn't breastfed anymore.
However now he's 21 months old and has a new baby sister and since she was born he has to have myself or my husband lie with him until he sleeps! |