Bedtime routines

How do you all get your babies to go to sleep?

I usually do bath, bottle in my arms then put him straight into the cot if he falls asleep, if he doesn’t then the only thing that has work is rocking him in his chair. But now that he can crawl this is not working at all so I need new ideas please. He will not fall asleep in the cot himself and I am not going to do any military style sleep training with him. When I put him in the cot he starts to crawl around

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With a sacrifice to the gods and a prayer haha.
To be honest, I just take my daughters lead. Some days she will need a bit of help in terms of shhhing and being right next to her. Other days she will just lay and go off by herself.

hahaha oh good so it’s not just us struggling then 😂 I thought I’d nailed it but this has changed everything!

I lay mine in the cot after a bath and bottle and tap them, shhing them til they go to sleep. Not ideal but better than holding them😂

I do same as above..if he's super tired he lays there or just rolls side to side to get comfy while I hold.his hand and pat his bum. If he's not very tired he rolls and crawls about for a while first and then settles on his side to go to sleep, holding my hand. On a good night anyway 🤣 he also stopped tolerating being held or rocked to sleep so we had to just put him in cot and see what happened. I stay by his cot till.he falls asleep and if he gets upset I pick him up until he's OK then he goes back in

sounds the same as my routine😂 some nights, I have to keep getting them out, rock for abit and have a cuddle, back down and start again😂

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