We've been working since birth with EASY and PU/PD has been a godsend during regressions. WI and WO have been working as well, until about 2 weeks ago when my 13 MO started waking every hour after midnight. Sometimes we'd walk in, say we loved him and he'd soothe himself. Other times, he'd be awake for hours, and 100 tries at WI/WO had no effect. We've been consistent, and it's eventually worked, but there's no improvement over the 10 days at ALL.
After ten days we literally could not take it any more, so my compromise with my DH (so he didn't make me do CIO before we both lost our minds) was that we'd let my son sleep in his crib in our room. Sleeping in his crib in our room made sense, as I had a fear it was SA, but i was resistant b/c i thought this would be a prop. Worked like a charm, he slept through the night without issue two nights in a row. But now I'm worried that this has become a prop and we're accidental parenting.
I am curious about pointers on WI/WO and have been reading about the wind down routines. Think we can do better there, so we'll start with a better, longer wind down.
1. What could be going wrong if WI/WO is not working after so long (literally took 2 days before PU/PD showed some results).
2. Should i be worried about him sleeping in our room?
3. There's not a lot of other solutions shown for SA other than WI/WO and gruadual withdrawl. Any other thoughts?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, we're really dying over here!
