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Hi,

My son is 16 months old. We sleep trained him to sleep through the night
when he was 11 months. When he was 14-15 months we trained him to fall asleep
for his nap on his own. My boyfriend takes care of him during the day. What he
did to train him was: he would do the routing, and put him in his crib and be
with him until he fell asleep, and every day he would slowly move away(towards
the door) a bit more, and eventfully left the room. Everything took 2 weeks the
most. Our son recently had bad stomach flu, and was sick for a week, and he got
used to bad habits. (And my son really likes routines, so a few days is enough
to pick up any habit-it seems that bad habits are easily picked up J)

After our son recovered, we wanted to go back and have him fall asleep on
his own again. But for the past few weeks, my boyfriend can't seem to succeed.
He puts him in his crib and as before he waits for him to fall asleep, but our
son gets restless, starts turning around and playing. My boyfriend tells him to
sleep, but as he gets more restless my boyfriend leaves the room for 5 minutes
and our son cries. When he comes back in, our son settles and falls asleep. Sometimes
my boyfriend would do this a couple of times.

If my boyfriend leaves the room as soon as he puts him down, our son also
cries.

Do you have any suggestions how to break this habit? We can't seem to figure
it out.

Thank you.