My baby is getting harder and harder to put down for naps AND bedtime. I'm at my wits end, and frankly I have 3 other children under age 7 and I don't have TIME to spend putting him to sleep for half an hour (sometimes for naps) to an hour or more at bedtime.
I want to start PU/PD but I'm worried about it taking weeks and weeks.
His schedule is such, 2 hr A time sometimes he can manage more cheerfully sometimes not. 1st nap at 9ish, he naps for 30 min and then wakes up and the only way I can possibly sometimes get him to stay asleep/get back to sleep is constant rocking in the buggy. If I can manage that he'll sleep til between 1030 and 11. Then feed, next nap at 1. Here's where it gets tricky. He's woken up at like 230 and then you would think he'd be tired at 430 but he is IMPOSSIBLE to get down for a cat nap! I try so hard but its a flying time of day in my house and he gets too distracted and never seems tired enough, so he is chronically OT at bedtime at 7. I see that when he does occasionally get a CN he can sleep from bedtime at 7 til 3 am (without a DF, I never started one and debating whether I should now) and when he doesnt it ends up being more like 12. Then he wakes 2-3 times in the night.
So I'm moving him out of my room this week to a big crib ( he's still swaddled but has managed to turn over so I want to stop but he needs more room then) and I want to teach him to fall asleep.
Til now for naps I swaddle and give him a paci and hold him sideways in my arms and pat his bum, at bedtime he nurses, falls asleep and then wakes up when I burp him and then I do the same thing, but its taking longer and longer for him to get to sleep.
Any advice for how to start?