How do you put your baby to sleep? 😰

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Hey guys! So i always read how you shouldn’t get in the habit of nursing your baby to sleep so that they don’t associate eating with sleep. 
I’ve also read you should follow the “eat, activity, sleep” pattern - does anyone do this with much success?
Personally I have found it hard just to plonk baby in crib after our sleep routine - 100% fail rate with that to date if I’m honest. As soon as I put him down drowsy he wakes right back up. 😫 I almost always have to feed him or rock him during the day to get him down for a nap. Sometimes I use the sling etc. He may wake up a little as his head touches the mattress but it’s brief and then he is out like a light. 
At the moment he can put himself back to sleep by himself if he wakes at night. 👌 But naps are a whole different story! If he wakes he rarely goes back down during day. 
With the 4 month sleep regression looming just around the corner, I would like to get in the way of  healthier sleep habits. 
Can you share what you do to get your LO to sleep?

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I still nurse or swing him to sleep. It works for us 🤷🏼‍♀️ Also never been able to put him down awake.

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You are not alone! i always nurse and rock to sleeo and then when i should lay him down i rarely do... I struggle with <1> wanting to practice "good" sleep habits. (mostly to please other people who don't understand my "attached parenting style") <2> just wanting to snuggle my baby who I waited and longed for, for 4 years... my oldest is 6 and I co slept- I always rocked him to sleep. I held him as much and often as I could. I can tell you, I don't regret it & in my eyes it didn't ruin him, my family would disagree but now it doesn't matter. I haven't gotten shit done in 4 months. But I haven't looked back and thought man I should have held my baby less and mopped more. there will be a day when that's the last day you do that thing and you'll miss it. I've struggled with getting pregnant etc so I guess I look at everything with a different perspective.

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For naps I have to swaddle him in a blanket then walk around with him rocking him in my arms until he falls asleep. At night, my husband feeds him, then we change his diaper, wrap him in his Zipadee Zip, and sit with him on the couch watching our show until he falls asleep. Usually when he starts getting fussy on the couch my husband holds him on his shoulder and rubs his back until he’s out.

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My 3.5 month old is still swaddles and still sleeping in a rock and play so he settles in pretty quick with just a little fussing and crying if I put him down drowsy after rocking him. 
We don’t use the rock function anymore on the rocker but he prefers the cozy feel and the incline to the crib. And I’ve started doing one arm out for his short naps. I’m not eager to unswaddle and move to the crib. I’ve tried some naps that way and they only last 30 minutes no matter how deeply asleep he is when I put him down. 
In anticipation of that change I’ve been trying to create a naptime routine. We go around the house and turn off all the lights, turn on his sound machine, play with a soft musical plush toy in the living room and then get swaddled and rocked a bit in the nursery. If he’s still super fussy but clearly sleepy, I turn on cartoons for about 10 minutes sometimes with and sometimes without the swaddle and we cuddle until he gets drowsy. I’m surprised at how good it works and didn’t want to use tv like that but a friend of mine with a super happy and sweet and very bright 2 year old who is absolutely perfect said that was the only thing that worked for her after the swaddle came off so I figured I’d start it now as a nap routine just in case we need it.
At night it’s the same routine after bath time and a book, no cartoons then.

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I used to have to rock my girl to sleep but have begun just putting her down and she gets to sleep usually within 10 mins. I got a Mobile which helps too, she just watches that and drifts off. I got better at reading her tired signs and would put her down when I started seeing them.

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Hi i nurse my baby girl to sleep. She never sleeps normally. She has to be feed and slept.
As far i know nursing to bed is not good since the milk in the mouth damages the teeth. So i was hopping once I start on the solids and water il give her a sip of water after the feed so that the milk in her mouth gets cleaned. 
Hope this trick will help you guys as well!! But don’t give them water without asking the pediatrician.

How do you put your baby to sleep? 😰

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