How are you putting your 9-10 month olds to sleep/naps?

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I've been feeding my baby to sleep at night, I feed and rock her back to sleep in the middle of the night when she wakes to eat, and feed her to put her down for naps. I read an article that says by now you should be putting them in their crib when they're tired and dropping night feedings completely. Does this actually work?

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Both. Some days she can fall asleep on her own, others she can't. She rarely wakes up at night but when she does she gets a bottle or else she won't calm down. We've been trying to let her put herself to sleep as often as we can, but it doesn't always work and she tends to fall asleep during a bottle anyway.

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I nurse to sleep, and take the lack of sleep it comes with. Idgaf what people or doctors say, cause I know it'll end on baby's terms when he's ready. I want to enjoy him as a baby instead of rushing him to "grow up". 
Occasionally though, he squirms and fights to be layed down and it breaks my heart.

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My girl WILL NOT go to sleep on her own. The “put them down drowsy but awake” doesn’t work for us at all. I envy anyone who’s baby does this because I swear my girl senses when she is being put down and loses her mind!

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Waiting for comments...  I haven’t been able to get my lo to fall asleep on her own yet.  Her doctor keeps telling me to let her cio with no checks, but I can’t do it!

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I always nurse to sleep,  my 1st was ff and she fell asleep with her bottle and my second and third are breastfeed and they nurse to sleep,  seems like the most natural, easiest and faster way to get them to sleep.   I wouldn’t do it any other way until they are able to fall asleep on their own without crying.

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My daughter gets what I like to call the “night crazies”. She gets really wild right before bed. One of us usually lays in our bed with her and she starts her “crazies”...she likes to climb all over us and dive bomb into the pillows and roll around a ton. Then after about 15-20 minutes or so of this she starts winding it down. I don’t necessarily put her in her room awake per say she’s usually just fallen or barely asleep but when we move her she does wake up a little bit but will fall right back asleep once she is in her crib.

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He’s been falling asleep in his swing with a bottle then getting moved to crib. He loves his swing and idk how to get him out of loving it so much. It’s all he wants to sit in.

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My son used to be horrible about naps and bedtime but it has gotten a lot better. I used to just rock him to sleep, but then I got pregnant and he started fighting the rocking. It got to the point where I just couldn’t wrestle him anymore. So I’ll rock him for a few minutes and then lay him down. At first he would cry and I would just set a time limit and watch on the monitor to see when I should go back in, but he has gotten to the point where he usually doesn’t even cry at all when I lay him down. He doesn’t fall asleep right away, but will play for a few minutes and then lay down and go to sleep. Bedtime is easiest though, I guess he is just used to our routine because he usually just lays right down and goes to sleep right away at bedtime. We used to feed him one more time before we went to bed and then he’d sleep through the night, but just this week we decided to see how he’d do without that feed and he has done amazing. He has slept 12-13 hours every night. Knock on wood lol. Just be patient. It takes time for baby to adjust, but the more consistent you can be the better.

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My daughter co-sleeps so I didn't vote but she doesn't fall asleep on a bottle as often anymore. Maybe since I cut down the serving size (from 8 to 6) it doesn't knock her out right away. She'll finish it looking drowsy until she realizes it's empty then will sit up and get into stuff. Eventually she'll get crabby (she's started having tantrums) and that's how I know she's tired. Sometimes I'll rock her or lay her by me and that helps her settle down and realize "Oh, I'm tired." Other times she doesn't want cuddles and will get out of my lap and just plop her head down on the mattress in front of me and fall asleep. She's been pretty independent lately.

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I feed to sleep and at every night waking until my babies wean 😊

How are you putting your 9-10 month olds to sleep/naps?

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