Baby falling to sleep independently 😴

I was always advised not to rock a new born as they get used to it then is VERY hard to make them sleep independently later on, from three months I put my daughter in her cot to teach her from that stage. Now 20months she still puts herself to sleep. So I guess the advise worked.

oh that’s amazing! He was quite colicky as a newborn and holding/rocking him was literally the only way to calm him 😭 he doesn’t necessarily cry when I put him down in his cot but he’ll just lie there playing with his feet or his dummy 🤣🤦🏽‍♀️

I always rocked or contact napped and thought that was the only way to get him to sleep. Then this week I started just putting him down in his cot at nap time with his dummy, white noise on and a little ‘lovey’ and stroked his face a little bit and I sit next to the cot and he goes to sleep after about 10 mins 😱

if he is not crying then leave him to it hun! He’ll probably fall asleep on his own I promise. Is better to do this now than late x

I was rocking mine to sleep until about two weeks ago, then just started to put him in crib for night sleep after his last bottle and he’s handling it better than I even expected! I never let him start crying and go in when he starts to whine alot to put my arm on tummy and shhush. No white noise, no dummy, just dark and silent. A couple of times I did have to take him out and rock, but that took two minutes for him to then be out like a light. Now he’s able to settle for naps too

that’s so good!! Do you pick him up if he starts crying?x

yeah I’m definitely going to start giving it a go, I really don’t want him to rely on me for much longer. Especially when he reached 6 months and we move him into his room x

He doesn’t even cry 😮 he will whinge a bit I just put the dummy back in and stroke down his nose and he stops, that’s how it’s been all week anyway I’m not sure what I’ll do when he cries 🫢 but I feel like it’s sort of easing into sleep training and then when he’s done that for a while i read about the chair method where you just move the chair further away each time until your out the room x

I just hold my baby’s hand. Works every time! X

I started by less rocking and patting; then nothing on my lap, then putting down with cuddles and letting him practice falling asleep, I did it when he was drowsy from the rocking and now at a point where no rocking just down with a dummy, play with my hand coo a little and he is out. Saying that I co sleep, and I had more of a gentle method than cry it out as I feel he was too young for this (just turned 5 months) x

We’ve put our little girl in her crib for every nap and night sleep since very early on. She can now fall asleep by herself pretty much everywhere.

I feed mine read him a story which mortally by then he half and half and but him in his cot he may stir and I just rest my hand on him soothe him them walk away

I find it's about being consistent. So once you've gotten baby to sleep, put them down and they may wake up, but repeat the process until it works. Sometimes they can keep waking up, but it does eventually work. Both my girls have self settled from a few weeks old by doing this, so I won't have no one say they cannot settle by themselves so young because they quite clearly can 😅

I’m also thinking of teaching my LO to sleep independently. I’m going to try rock until drowsy then put in crib and leave. If she’s content I’ll leave her but if she cries I’ll pick her up, rock until calm and drowsy and place down. And repeat until she’s asleep. Then slowly reduce how much I rock her 🤞 hoping it’s going to work.

My baby is 3 months and I give a small amount of milk before sleep. Put him in his cot. I put one hand on his chest and hold his hand and use the other hand to rub out his eyebrows. Some days took 40 min to settle and now he goes with 2 rubs of the eyebrows. I don’t use the other hand anymore and over time I will reduce to nothing. Hoping he adjusts naturally without sleep training after 6 months.

We didn’t really teach her she just started to get fussy one night with me rocking her so I popped her in her crib with a muslin and her dummy and she fell to sleep herself ☺️ can only do it at night though consistently 😂

I would love to know how people manage this lo woke on transfer tonight so thought we’d leave her see what she does, she just continues to roll talk and chill on her tummy absolutely no attempt to go to sleep

Okay girls so we gave it a go tonight 🤣 and he was having noneeeee of it! Cried when in his cot so just ended up rocking him to sleep. He’s also woken up almost every 15 mins since 7 balllling his eyes out and only stopping when I pick him up and he immediately falls back asleep (this is not like him at all). Those of you who it worked for straight away are so lucky 😭

Oh no 😓 could he be too tired do you follow wake windows? I put him down just after around 1hr30 of being awake x

I have a cot mobile on her cot and when i know she wants to sleep i turn on the music from cot mobile and give her pacifier to soothe herself thankfully she sleeps on her own .Have a try with this

bless you it’s so tough maybes just keep trying each night?

they say bum first and then head. Once I’ve got my little ones bum down, I move my free hand to the the other side of the head so when I pull my arm out that is holding his head , he has the support and comfort of the other hand holding his head to the side.he doesn’t realise he’s being put down. This is if he falls asleep on me before transfer. Might be worth a try if you haven’t tried this way.