For context my daughter is taking an hour to fall asleep.. often at 9pm. She’s in a cot but just got her a floor bed so I FEAR for this transition.
2nd on the wag and I cannot sustain 1 hour bedtimes 🥲. Help.
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Mine is 2 take hour or 30 minutes but continuesly shushing and singing too scared to change to independent sleep 🙃

A mix of both! Some nights on her own and others with back rubs or hugs. But if its taking that long I would conclude she isnt tired enough. Look at nap length and wake window before bed

Ours also takes 1 hour. I’ve capped her nap to 1 hour, awake at 1.30pm. Not falling asleep until about 8.40pm and wakes at 7am. I’m too scared to try a later ‘lights off’ time in case she’ll still need an hour whatever. She’s always taken ages to fall to sleep at night!

Ours starts getting ready for bed around 7:30-7.45pm and usually asleep by 8, 8:15pm. With support - we read a book, offer some milk, then cuddle him to sleep. Then transfer to cot once asleep 🙏🏽
How quick the bedtime takes totally depends on how busy his day was, so getting him to sleep is much quicker on nursery days, or days we've been for a day out or a runaround the park/softplay etc. for the days he's home, we do usually try to do something outside each day to help burn off some energy after his daytime nap (at noon), as ours defo is easier to get to sleep (and has a more peaceful sleep/less likely to wake often) if we keep his days busy

We’ve sleep trained but some nights are better than others. He will go in his cot cry for abit will come back rub his back and leave the room. I think it’s that last bit of reassurance he needs to then sleep

We co-slept until 18 months when I had my second. He went into his own room in a double bed, we do bath, teeth and book and then I just tuck him in and say goodnight, sometimes he goes straight to sleep sometimes he gets a book out/plays for a bit to finish winding down then will just go to sleep when he's ready, usually within 30 mins or so

We went through a phase of falling asleep independently but then after repeat illnesses and teething, we’re at a stage now where we lay her down, read a story and hold her hand. It’s not for everyone but it works for us and takes around 20-30 minutes. We capped her nap a long while ago to 1 hour waking at 1pm latest and asleep between 7:30-8 x

My little girl takes about 30-40 mins on a good night sometimes an hour too! We’ve had to cap her naps to an hour and awake by 2 latest! As she just wasn’t tired enough for bedtime! We’ve also just transitioned to a bed but I’m finding it easier to comfort her by sitting next to her bed reading/rubbing her back etc instead of having to lean over a cot! X

So we’ve recently got rid of her dummy and after that we’ve gone from 30mins-1hour sometimes longer to 5-15mins max.
She settles herself but we’re still in the room so she can see us. She does have a teddy now too but doesn’t always cuddle with that
But I will also add it’s took us a long to get to this stage. We were rocked to sleep, then bum patted, then hand holding to now self settled with us in the room x