Hi ladies,

Am feeling a bit worried about the way DH and I put our 15 week old DS to sleep. He has been a VERY high maintenance bub with reflux, colic, eczema and had been hard to settle from day one and has always been a big crier which has to always be stimulated when awake as he will cry otherwise. We nearly always do the feed, play, sleep ritual and he is normally only up for around 1/1.5 hours before he starts showing tired signs. He has normally 1 big sleep during the day of around 2/2.5 hours and a couple of 45 minute naps. The thing is, the only way we can settle him is to wrap him as tightly as we can and nurse him with one of our fingers in his mouth for him to suckle on as he will not have anything to do with a dummy at all. We do this while patting his bottom or rocking him and he always goes to sleep this way. I am really stressing that we have caused a very bad habit and that we will still be doing this when he is 12 months old and I am not relishing the thought of control crying at all. I really don't think I could stand to do this so am worried as to how to get him to self settle. Any ideas and do you think we have done a really bad thing?

Thanks so much,
Nita