Our son had always been a decent sleeper. We have always rocked him to sleep, and for a long time he would generally sleep through the night. Recently, though, we have had a bad stretch of frequent waking a few hours after we put him down, or even inability to transfer him to his crib without waking him up*. It had resulted in more and more cosleeping to the point where we feel he is spending too much time in our bed.

I know we should have broken the rock-to-sleep habit a long time ago. My husband wants to do extinction CIO but I can't handle that so we keep arguing about it. I am ok with a little crying but tonight he woke up about an hour after we put him down and ten minutes later he was crying so hard that he was choking. I went in and rocked him back to sleep but he woke up during the transfer and now he is sleeping next to me in our bed. Fail.

Any ideas of how to tackle this situation?

*He weighs over 32lbs so a smooth transfer is physically challenging!