For those who no longer feed or rock to sleep, was it something you decided to change, or did your baby show signs they were ready? How did you do it?
My baby turns 1 next week, and I’m wondering if I should start helping him fall asleep without feeding or rocking.
“Drowsy but awake” doesn’t work for us at all. He just opens his eyes wide, sits up, rolls around and seems to get more stimulated rather than sleepy. It makes me wonder whether he’ll naturally show me when he’s ready to fall asleep differently, or whether I need to teach it somehow.
Would love to hear your experiences! 😊 TIA
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Im almost 19 months and still not there yet!! Im currently trying to wean off nursing to sleep but its gotta be replaced with rocking as drowsy and awake also doesnt work!! Shes getting to the age of laying down when shes tired so im just hoping one day she’ll be old enough to do it? 🤣 can they self teach this? … we’ll find out

My boy is 10 months, I still rock to sleep if he’s upset, but that doesn’t happen too often anymore. He’s a big boy and I just can’t physically do it for too long so we had to persist when he was about 7 months with putting down drowsy. It’s not fun obviously
If they’re upset but I found sitting by the cot with him and patting his back or I squeeze up and down his legs to calm him down. I would just have to leave the room, give him a couple of minutes and go back in. I suppose unintentionally “sleep training”. But that worked after about a week and now he’s a great self settler.

Still nursing to sleep boy is 17m old lol

Still feed to sleep at 16 months but anyone else putting him to sleep is a quick rock or bum pats
Not for me though 🤷♀️

Definitely at one year old we were doing both... Somewhere between 12-18months we gradually started just cuddling to sleep while still feeding, shortly after 18months we stopped feeding to sleep over about a week (slowly changed the milk out for water, which he stopped on his own) this was to protect his teeth. He's 3 now and I still sit with him while he falls asleep... I'm happy doing this though so I haven't tried to change it. I'd still rock him to sleep if my back could take it 🤣

21m old and we still feed/rock. We converted his crib so the railing is much lower and he can climb in and out. So we’ve been trying to just pat his back to sleep more. Like saying “time for bed” and he climbs in himself, gets himself comfortable. And we just wait for him to sleep. But to be honest, feeding and rocking are just quicker.

My husband will rock for a few minutes and I’m not even sure if baby is in the twilight yet, but after ten minutes of crying, he will go to sleep. I try and rock to sleep because I hate hearing him cry for those ten minutes. But I’m getting better. Last night I actually used his method and got the same results. My kid will be one in under 2 weeks

We stopped at about 12/13 months in preparation for nursery - we had to habit stack for a while to get there and introduce other methods for him to go to sleep but we did get there eventually. Happy to share if of interest (though I’m generally a firm believer in do whatever works for you and your baby!) x

We transitioned my son to a single bed when he turned 2. It was at that point he started showing signs he had grown out of being rocked to sleep and ready to be more independent. Now I put him down and sit with him until he falls asleep, usually takes about 15 minutes.
I understand 2 years is probably older than what most parents would want to rock their child to sleep for, but my son genuinely didn't seem ready until then and I was happy to do it.