Teaching self settling

Can anyone share what you are doing to help your little ones learn to self settle? My daughter has never been great at self settling but it’s got worse the last few weeks and we are pretty much exclusively rocking or feeding her to sleep. I know this is totally normal at this age (she’s 17 weeks) but I’d really like to start to encourage her to try to self settle, with the hope of avoiding any proper ‘sleep training’ further down the line.

We’ve tried putting her down ‘drowsy but awake’ and she screams, we’ve tried patting/shushing/hand on chest and she screams, we’ve tried a dummy (which she takes but still screams)… is it just a case of continuing to offer her opportunities to self settle and hoping something clicks?! My first never had any issues self soothing so this is new territory!

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Please please please tell me I'm not the a-hole here or I'm not overreacting because I would have to take accountability and responsibility for my words and apologize. So a little backstory yesterday I did the overnight for our 4-month son. He's going through sleep regression. He was up every hour on the hour and I got maybe 2 hours of sleep. He got to sleep the whole night through. He didn't work yesterday and said he wasn't feeling good. Which okay. But I managed to get all the laundry folded and put away and go grocery shopping and make dinner. That's 2 hours of sleep I had to adult on. Now today he did the overnights last night and my son slept longer. We have my two daughters from her previous marriage. I am not only doing laundry. I'm doing dishes. I'm making lunch for them and I'm also trying to take care of my 4-month-old. He comes in and says he's tired now. I told him to do the laundry because I can't always get to the laundry room because I live in an apartment and the laundry room is on the other side of the building. He left a basket of clothes that were still damp and he came in and said I'm tired and I don't feel good. He's highly allergic to cats and we have three and on top of that he smokes and he has horrible allergies so his sinuses are probably pissed off. Am I wrong for being angry? I don't get to have a day off even when I'm tired. He does right now. He's sleeping because my son is sleeping. WTF 😒😒😒

To shave or not to shave

What is everyone planning or done in the past when it comes to shaving downstairs for labour and delivery. And if it’s not shaven when waters have broken has anyone stopped to shave or planning on doing it. Just wondering…

You just buckled your kid into the car seat after they fought and cried and made it take several minutes longer than normal. You get in the drivers seat and go to open your gps to realize you left your phone in the house. What do?

Is your answer different if it’s a house versus apartment?