Can your baby self soothe to sleep?

My wee boy cant initially fall asleep himself, he needs rocked and shooshed but once he is asleep he can self soothe through the night if he is in a semi awake state by sucking on his fingers. We stopped giving him a dummy in the night when it fell out and he gravitated to self soothing this way.

Yeah ive noticed my little girl can self soothe through the night occasionally...other times needs the boob but getting to sleep initially is virtually impossible. Ive tried to avoid feeding her to sleep, putting her in the next to me drowsy but awake, settling her in the next to me but none of it works...She'll only fall asleep in my arms, in a sling, in a pram or in a car. We still have a lot of night time wake ups so I know its key to reducing these but can't seem to get something that works for her

Pure luck.

My little girl just did it, I did not teach her 😂 as above, pure luck! I used to rock my little boy to sleep every night and he’d sleep through, but my girl doesn’t need helped to sleep but wakes up regularly 🫠 you just can’t win!😂

With a dummy, so not sure if that counts!

We look for her sleepy cues, she does need help sometimes but not very often. We made the mistake with our first of letting him get over tired as we didn’t know what we were looking for and ended up having to rock him for every single sleep because he got used to that.
It’s all trial and error ☺️

Sleep training with a sleep consultant. It was the best decision and money we’ve ever spent. He goes to sleep independently for ever nap/bedtime and is sleeping though the night pretty consistently. His sleep used to be horrendous before

My little boy just did it very much just luck I’ve always put him down awake he sleeps in a sleeping bag and has a muslin and a dummy most of the time he will take the dummy out and just fall asleep x