hi there....
i have searched through old posts for a similar situation but didn't find one so i am hoping someone can help. my 7 mo has generally been a good sleeper on easy, although still waking at night (usually once) to bf. i am hoping that will go away as he starts eating more solids. anyway...he just recently started becoming extremely mobile (almost able to crawl) and therefore is rolling over on to his back at night and during naps and lying there wide awake. he has no idea how to sleep on his back (started sleeping on his stomach at 4 months) and he also does not know how to roll back over and send himself back to sleep. i bought a video monitor last week to see what was going on because he kept waking up and when i would go into his room he was wide awake. i feel like i am creating a bad habit by going in and turning him back over (he smiles when i get there.) i then have to hold him down while he goes back to sleep or he will just roll over again. i am having a very difficult time. i also can't really use pu/pd because he is not really crying, just fighting me and trying to roll over again. sending him back to sleep is taking a long time (40-50 mins) or he sometimes just won't go back to sleep at all during naps. if he does start to cry during my holding him down, i don't really feel like pu/pd is an option because he seems to become more unsettled if i pick him up.
am i doing the right thing by trying to hold him down and let him soothe himself back to sleep? should i being doing some variation pu/pd that i don't know about? please help - this has been happening at every nap and a couple times a night for almost 2 weeks. thanks so much.
