Drowsy but awake?

Question

FTM. I’ve been told I need to put my LO to bed drowsy but awake to prevent bad sleeping habits later on, but every-time I try within seconds she is wide awake and crying. I feel like she is too young to let her cry it out (she is 7 weeks old tomorrow). Up to this point we have been nursing and/or rocking to sleep. Is it really that important this early or is it something that can wait till she is a little older? If it is important to do this now any tips/advice? Thanks in advance!

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She is 7 weeks old. DO NOT CRY IT OUT. Do not do that. You dont have to put her down drowsy but awake. You can put her down after shes asleep. At this age it doesnt form bad sleeping habbits if you rock her to sleep and then put her down. But absolutely do not let her cry it out. At that age its considered emotional abuse and it leaves long term damage to them emotionally that they will have for life. So absolutely do not cry it out with her. Shes 7 weeks old you cant spoil her, hold her and rock her to sleep all you want to.

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My baby couldn't go down awake/drowsy until he was 6.5 months old! I still have to rock him sometimes (especially when teething), there was no way it was happening for me at 7weeks old! Don't worry about sleep training this early imo, cuddle and rock that baby while you can ❤️❤️

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Way too young... sleep training shouldn’t start until 4 months. We rocked our baby boy to sleep up until 4 months and then we started putting him down to sleep on his own. He’s five months now, and he’s doing pretty well!! 
Soothe your baby, there’ll be a time when you can officially start sleep training, but for now just keep him on a flexible routine/schedule. It might not work everyday, but keep it in the same ballpark so when you do start sleep training your baby kind of has an idea of what to expect.

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It only works for us sometimes and that is recently. Baby is 4 months. It get easier the older baby gets. I wouldn’t worry about it when baby is that young.

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You do whatever works for you and your baby. I personally rocked my son to sleep up until one night when I was sick and I couldn’t (husband was deployed so it was just me). He did cry at that point for awhile, but from then on he put himself to sleep well. We’re talking like 9 months old though at this point. Me rocking him to sleep didn’t have any negative effects as of yet. He’s just over 2 now and has slept through the night from 4 months old. It is just soooo dependent on both you and your baby. I didn’t do anything special to get him to sleep through the night. Just read his cues and stuck to a somewhat similar schedule every night.

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We got into the habit of putting our boy down with a bottle because he always fought sleep. It worked wonders because we could always get him to sleep. As we started moving toward a more regular eating schedule, I decided we really needed this to change. We just moved away from this within the past 2 wks I'd say - at 5 months old. Right now I am generally holding him and rocking to sleep for naps. At some point I will try to transition away from that but we gotta do what works for now.

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