8 mo old - standing in crib

[2009baby]

Now that my son has learned to pull up, getting him down for naps has been a bit of a nightmare the last couple of days!  He's definitely not OT or UT, naps and overnight sleep have been great until he learned to pull up.  This morning he took almost 90 minutes to settle down for a nap (that's his whole naptime!) and I'm thinking I might have done the PD thing wrong.

So I'm looking for suggestions how to deal with the standing in his crib.  For about 2 months now, we've just put him down in his crib (after a wind down/quiet time before his nap) and left the room - he'd fall asleep in 10 minutes.  Now, initially he's happy after I leave the room, then he'll start to whine/fuss (standing in his crib).  So after a couple of minutes of that I went back in to his room to lay him back down.  Repeated this for about 90 minutes before my husband finally had to take over and basically kept his hand on his back/legs (gently of course) to keep him from moving around. 

I don't want this to ruin all our hard work leading up to this point!  He was doing so well, going to sleep on his own, sleeping for 90 minute naps and STTN.  Please reassure me this will pass!

[elmarie]

Sorry we are only answering your post now  .  New milestones can cause havoc with sleeping, which usually only last for a week or two. What does his EASY look like , it may need some tweaking 

[okinawamama]

No advice really, just hugs. My now 9month old son went through that and it was torture on our naps as well as night time.  He was always going to bed UT (trying to anticipate how long it would take to fall asleep and he'd fall asleep sooner) or OT (because he stood and screamed the house down for ages). He did quit after about two weeks. In the mean time I taught him how to get himself down out of that position in hopes he would start laying himself down and would occasionally hold his bum to the mattress (gently of course!!) if I could see that the OT was getting out of control.

[A pair of Charlies]

I think that sometimes PD works perfectly for some LOs and not at all for others. It didn't work for my DS at all and just wound him up. I tried for a month and it was just awful. A BW friend and I were going through the same thing at the time and both had pretty quick success by not laying our LOs back down. We'd both given that approach a fair old try (I had done it for a month) so we knew that it had time to click, and hadn't. Sometimes it can take a few days for things to click for little ones.

So. What we did. I made sure that my DS could lie down by himself from standing in his crib. We did lots of practice during awake time and in the cot. When he did stand initially, I would help him climb his hands down and get back down to lying. Patiently. Once I was sure he could do that, I stopped doing it for him. I sat near the cot (as part of a GW sleep training I was doing) and just repeated my key phrases of 'lie down, time to sleep'. I encouraged him by patting the mattress where his head should be or moving his lovie around. But I didn't lay him down - it was his choice. When he lay down, I praised (quietly) with good boy, time for sleeping. I kept myself close to the floor, so I knelt curled up on the floor so that my face was at mattress height - if he wanted to see me, reach me, he had to crouch right down.

Worked pretty quickly for us.

As Elmarie said, if you could post your EASY might be something there to tweak to ensure not OT or UT.