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Oh I feel your pain, when we brought our son home we battled with sleep too, along with a host of other attachment issues. Typically Lucas would take 2 naps a day, but in order to get him down I'd have to rock him while he had his bottle, typically for about 30 minutes or so. This worked in the begining but later on, when I would go to transition him from my arms to the crib, the moment I sat him down he'd cry. He'd often also startle himself awake, like an arm would flail or something and that would wake him up. He was 10 1/2 months old when he came home, and we started to swaddle him like you would a newborn and this helped tremendously. At night time he'd sleep fine until about midnight, but then he was up every hour screaming. We'd just go back in and rock him and sooth him and in time it went from waking up 7 times a night, to 3 then to 1. When he got to the point of waking just once a night (this was probably after 3 months home) we gave it some time and then let him cry it out simply because it didn't matter what we would do for him, he just wasn't happy. Honestly he cried it out for less that 20 minutes the first night, and less than 5 the second night and has been sleeping through since then, but it took us 4 months of attachment parenting and rocking to get there. GOOD LUCK!
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