Please help me, I've been doing the sshh / pat method with my 4.5 month old don , Gabriel , for a week. The reason I started it was that although he has a very good nighttime routine, often sleeping through the night , or waking once for a bottle, I made the big mistake of driving with him in the mornings. He would then sleep for 1.5 to 2 hrs. The next couple of sleeps I would walk with him and he would sleep either in my arms or on the breast. These 3 naps would make up the rest of his sleeps during the day. I started BW as I wanted him to sleep in his cot for these naps. The 1st 2 days I used the pu/pd method and then sshh / pat to keep him in his cot. He did eventually sleep. By the 3rd day I only needed to use the shh / pat method to get him drowsy and fall asleep. The problem is , is that since then I' ve only managed to get him to sleep a maximum on 1hr 15 min, and this with constant patting and sshhing. He always jolts awake at the 20min mark and then really wakes himself up by stretching and rubbing his fingers all over his face. It takes me anything from 10min to 40 min to get him back to sleep again. 99% of the time it takes me 1hr30min to get him to sleep for 2 x 20 minutes. I've tried swaddling him but since birth he has slept with his hands above his head, anyway when he jolts he struggles to free his hands, so I've stopped the swaddling. I really want this to work. Please help anyone.
