Ugh just have to vent. Long post warning. So my son has been a pretty great sleeper. We would always put him down around 8:30 and he would usually wake only once in the night then start to wake for the day around 5:30-6 am. Even when we traveled. Hell, he slept better when we traveled and did stuff all day and didn’t get to bed until 9. It’s like the later we’d put him to bed the longer periods he’d sleep even though all the books say the earlier you put them to bed the better they sleep. So we just moved a couple weeks ago. We spent a month on the road visiting family mind you and his sleep stayed the same. He’s been fighting naps harder no matter when I put him down. I put him down at first sign of tiredness even if he’s only been up an hour, and he still fights. So in an effort to fix that and to learn how to get him to self soothe I’ve read up on sleep training methods. I set an earlier bedtime at 7:30 per like EVERY methods suggestion. Try to make sure he’s napping more during day etc, as they all say the more he sleeps during the day the more he’ll sleep at night. Since we’ve been doing the 7:30 bed time for almost two weeks, his sleep has been worse. He went from sleeping 5-6 hour avg at a time and waking only once, to waking like clockwork at 10pm 2am and 5. And IF he goes back to sleep at 5 it’s a fight to keep him in bed til 6. He will rouse every 30 min. And he won’t settle at those times without being fed. I’m getting more exhausted now than when he was a new born. The last two nights I’ve tried to put him down a little later closer to his older bed time and he still tries to wake up at 10 but I’ve been able to settle him without feeding. So I’m thinking of just going back to putting him down at 8:30. Any of you mommas have any suggestions that have worked for you? We still have to swaddle and rock him and I was trying to get him to stop fighting sleep so much so that we can begin to unswaddle him and try to get him to self soothe.