Hi

I need to hear some stories that will keep me going and give me hope. So far I am plagued with tales of 'people who did attachment parenting and were still carrying their four year old around trying to get them to sleep etc etc'

We cosleep with our 9 week old which we are both fine with. He is fed to sleep and goes off quite happily but that is the only way he goes to sleep. In the daytime he only sleeps in the carseat (which we use very rarely as I don't drive) or in his sling. In fact all his daytime sleeps are in the sling. Once or twice he has been fed to sleep on our bed in the daytime but they were very short sleeps, the longest being an hour! I have never seen him drop off to sleep unless he is in the sling or carseat. I have tried gently taking him out of the sling but he always wakes up. I have tried rocking, patting, swaddling and using a rocking swing. All have been unsuccessful. The closest to success was rocking him but he woke up as soon as I put him down. He just screams unless he is fed to sleep or in the sling.

Now when I have looked up advice or asked on BB everyone says use the sling etc which I am doing and it is manageable but what I need to know is does anyone have any stories of a baby that always needed the sling to sleep but eventually ended up self settling or sleeping somewhere else other than the sling?