Rocking to sleep
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Lol me rocking my 2 year old to sleep. They don't need it forever. Early childhood is a blink of an eye. 2 years literally just passed by fast. To wean you just havr to do it less and less over time. But what are you going to replace it with? You need a plan honestly and precious little sleep is a pretty good resource.
My boy nearly 21 month old and he still breast feeds to sleep ot rock/cuddles to sleep for naps and all. My other children use to self settle or come for cuddle to sleep. My nearly 4 year old still now want to lie with ppl and fall sleep
I feed/rock my almost 11m old to sleep every night and every nap unless he falls asleep in the pram x
Best way would be to layer associations so that you have other tools to use to get Her to sleep. So basically if you tap her back/bottom whilst rocking you can slowly reduce the rocking and use the tapping method which can be done whilst she is in the crib
My 9 month old doesn’t self soothe still 🤣
My daughter just turned 1 and I still rock her to sleep at bed time and most naps. At daycare she falls asleep on her own no problem though
I got a rocking chair in the nursery and feed/rock my 10month old to sleep for every sleep except pram/car naps!! I’ve seen her self settle in the night herself and doesn’t have many wakes so I’m happy to continue for now :) they are only little for a blink of an eye!
I’m only a Dec 24 Mum so early days and still not sure where we are relative to the 4 month regression…but we use my old birthing ball and just gently bounce and shush on that rather than standing and rocking and it’s soo much easier physically - highly recommend!
My 14 month old doesn’t self soothe very much. He’s basically been teething constantly since 9 months though. So we still rock and hold him. The other night he was so upset my husband rocked and held him for an hour while I got milk and then Tylenol since I thought his teeth hurt. Then he wasn’t calming down at all so I took over and put his favorite movie on, Harry Potter . Lol and he calmed down and finally fell asleep. But that was after 2.5 hours. But last night he slept through the night.
How long did you try the pick up/put down method? What about other techniques like the gradual withdrawal or extinction/cry it out? I am using pick up/put down with bum pats and hushing. Have a regular bedtime routine and am very consistent. Been 4 days for us and there has been some positive changes during daytime and night. Apparently can take up to 2 weeks to see baby settle.
I rock my baby to sleep yes but on my legs