How are your babies falling asleep?

Baby is now 20 weeks and we have to rock him to sleep for bedtime and every nap. He then wakes up multiple times at night as he needs rocking back to sleep.
How are we all putting little ones to sleep and how did you get there?
I’ve tried drowsy but awake, letting him fuss a bit, tried settling in crib etc. but nothing works.

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My baby has to be rocked and ssh’ed to sleep every day time sleep and fed to sleep at nighttime. She also refuses cot naps. It has to be next to me or on me or looking at me in the pram.

Rock, shh and feed to sleep currently! He is also waking constantly with the 4m sleep regression so looking to start training him to self settle 😬

Put down drowsy into next to me with white noise/dummy. Can take a few minutes of moving about till she settles. Sometimes will wake through the night for cuddle/bottle or dummy. We recently changed from leaving the lamp on to turning it off when putting her down and have found a big difference with this

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