Self settling

sometimes if i need him to lay in his bed i will put something on the tv mute it and play waves and he’s out

with a bottle of course but most the time he won’t pay attention to it bc waves are playing

I always Contact nap during the day but will feed her to sleep if I need to set her down

I’ve had to start contact napping again because putting him down in his cot is just a battle!
Whereas at bedtime, he goes straight down and that’s him out for 12 hours! X

I found my son was the same around 6months - 9months, it turned out his wake windows weren’t long enough so he simply just wasn’t tired when I was putting him down for a nap.. I was doing 7am wake up and nap around 10am, I would always take him into his bedroom, dim the room and put on some white noise, we would have a bottle and a cuddle and then I’d put him down drowsy but awake and leave him. He would make some noises but would nod off within 5-10 minutes. I also stopped going into him straight away, I would leave him unless he was extremely distressed. Xx

thank you, I was wondering whether his wake windows needed lengthening! This is really useful x