Hi I'm new here... thought I would ask for some advices to improve my sleep plan...

A little bit of context: my son is about 8months old, and before we started this 2 weeks ago, was waking about every hour/hour and a half during night and would take two naps of 45min to 2h a day. We did not have a bedtime routine at that time... He is breastfed and sleep in his crib (except when I am too tired, or he is a bit ill and can seems to sleep on his own, then he is in bed with us). Now he his taking (most of the time) two naps of about 1h30, and at night on average he wakes up every 2h30...

So, we introduced a bedtime routine, and we are doing the PPO, have introduced key words, and are doing the steps to put him to sleep... And it is getting easier to do, because I am less tired at night and have more energy to do all that...

I have some questions with regards to the timing of PPO: I think I do it too late (meaning he is already too much asleep); but if I do it before he fusses, and cries and get all worked up... Do you have any tips with this?

As far as the steps go: sometimes I have to stick to step one (putting him in his bed almost asleep), but sometimes I can go with step three... and he actually fusses until I lay him in his bed, and just pat him a bit... Any tips with this too?

Also, we are moving in two months, there will be a 12h time difference. Has anyone deal with a similar situation?

Thanks for any tips/advice/support you can give me. Sorry for the extra-long post.

I think that sounds like when you are supposed to do it; you are supposed to wait until he doesn't fuss, and that sounds like the right time.

It may take more than 2 rounds of 10 days. It took us 5 months to get our son to sleep through the night. He is now 4 years old and has slept through the night since he was 1 year old, but even still when we put him to bed at night he still is completely asleep when DH leaves his room - so even though he sleeps through the night, really he's still at stage 1, I guess! That's just what works for us!

I would e-mail Elizabeth Pantley about that, as it's a very specific situation. Her address is in the book and she is very helpful and responds to everyone.

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Good that is reassuring...

For now, my big goal is not even to have him sleep through the night, but have him sleep like when he was a newborn (was doing great 4h-3h sleeps...)

Anyway, we are going through a set back/side step right now... back to where we started... I guess theething is not helping.

For the time difference, I'll do as you suggested.

Thanks.