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I know I’ve probably caused myself these problems…
I’m EBF and we cosleep. At first it really was working for us, but I can’t deal with it all anymore.
Literally all of our naps are contact naps. I put baby to sleep in bed and then I need to be in bed from then on out. Unless someone can take my place and provide some form of contact.
I’m used as a dummy once baby is asleep who will end up awake as soon as i unlatch or wake up as soon as i try to lay him down.
I don’t believe in CIO but I’m really bloody close. Feel like I’m going mad
What do I do???
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Oh no, this sounds so tough! My friend had the same with her little boy. She had to sort this out when her baby was 9mo and I know feeding to sleep was the first thing the sleep consultant told her to break. So she was rocking him to sleep and then still cosleeping. Then when he woke for a feed either feeding him (depending on the time) and then rocking him or just rocking him back to sleep. Eventually she was able to get him to sleep in his own bed more and more and now he sleeps through the night in his own cot. It will be hard and take a while but yours is younger than hers was xx
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I'm really sorry that you're going through this! I don't have a sure answer but it's always good to break habits earlier than later. At this age I think baby may need about 3 days of consistency to learn a new habit/drop an old one. So let's say you want to put baby down for a nap instead of contact napping, they may wake up since they're not used to being on their own. Then you resettle, and put them back down. Rinse and repeat. It may be an exhausting few days, but this way you can still be there for them without having to resort to CIO. Eventually they will learn that this is gonna be the new norm and they'll just deal with it. I hope this helps at all, sending love!