Mum question:just after some sleep advice for my 22 month old son. Up until now he has been a great sleeper, goes to bed in his cot at 7pm and self settles and sleeps til 6.30-7am then has a 2 hour nap during the day. The last 3 days however we go through our normal sleep time routine and as soon as we walk out the room he screams until he throws up unless I hold him and he falls asleep on me. I refuse to use the CIO method as we prefer a more gentle style of parenting but am worried that we are creating a bad habit by letting him fall asleep in our arms. I am also 39 weeks pregnant and cant help but feel that he knows that something is happening. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Pinky says: Please dont worry about bad habits - enjoy these cuddles but perhaps get your parter to start doing the cuddles so your toddler is used to this before you are busy with a new baby. Im sure little ones sense a big change coming and need some extra reassurance at this time. Consider - do you like falling asleep with a cuddle? Does your partner ever tell you, we cant do this, we are creating bad habits? Really, the only way through an unsettled phase is to surrender, when the need is met it goes away again and you will find it easy then to make changes, gradually, with love.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 02:00:00 +0000