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Hi There,

So things have taken a turn for the worst. Naps are still good I am still going by the 2 hour rule and he is down usually no later than an hour and 1/2. He sleeps well all day with 3 naps then it's back to the evening time. For the past 4 nights he has only slept a 1/2 hour from around 6pm. He used to sleep a couple hours wake up rested then eat, play and sleep through the night. Now that he has dropped that sleep I thought he was getting ready for an earlier bed time so we try putting him down and he sleeps for about 1/2 hour and gets up, this goes on for hours. 3 of the 4 nights we had to put him in his crib to cry himself to sleep. Honestly the rocking, feeding, swaddling, everything is not working it is almost like it is keeping him up. I tried cluster feeding but he just gets annoyed when I try to nurse him, that doesn't sooth him at all. It's not what we planned but by 10:15 we no he needs to sleep so we put  him in the crib and he cries until about 11 and sleeps through to the morning. 

I don't know how to handle this. Should I try harder to get him to take that early evening sleep? If he won't sleep then is that when I should let him cry vs the late night one?

Last night I thought I wouldn't fight him not sleeping at that 6:00 hour and see how he was and he was of course happy and smiley and I thought ok we will just put him down earlier but then after that it just became a bad cycle of never going to sleep. 

I thought that sleep begets sleep. He has a morning nap of about 2 hours same with an after noon nap then around 4 he has an hour nap. Then the rest of the evening is chaos.

I thought sleep at this point was supposed to get a little better not worse 

Also this started just about the time when my husband got back from a business trip. Do you think this could have anything to do with it. I have been keeping the same routine but maybe it's the change of environment?

Any suggestions?