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[quote=Anonymous]Agreed, he sounds overtired.  There are so many methods to getting kids back to sleeping on their own and since you are facing the repeat departures from bed and tantrums when you leave, I would opt for the gradual move out method.  This is Pantley or Brazelton where you basically finish the bedtime routine and completely stay until he is asleep.  If the most you've done to date is lay down beside him then for this first week, you lay down beside him.  If the most you've done is sit beside him with your hand on his back then that's what you do.  The next week you consistently do a little less.  If you were laying down you then sit up for the week.  If you were sitting with hand on his back, it's an intermittent hand on back.  The goal is each week you make a shift from sitting beside to sitting a foot away in a comfy chair, the next week two feet.  You make the transitions without him being alerted and there's no debate about it, you just moved the chair sometime earlier in the day.

There is also little to no talking, you don't want conversations to be part of the process.

Also, in the middle of the night, if he wakes you do whatever you were doing at bedtime for that week.

Yes, this takes a long time (several weeks) but it avoid the bed departures that check in methods get and far less crying that cry it out.

I actually did co-sleeping for quite a while and check-in method when we all felt ready with mine but they were much younger.[/quote]

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