How do you put your baby down at night?

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Do you just put the baby in the crib and leave after saying goodnight?
Do you hold your baby until sleeping?
Trying to find what works because my baby fusses every night for 10m or so.

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We nurse to sleep. We bedshare but also have a sidecar crib that he occasionally sleeps in.

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We just lay her down awake and she puts herself to bed and sleeps until morning. I would love to be able to snuggle with her even just a little but she fusses and pushes away from me because she just wants to lay in her crib. Same with naps. Sometimes she fusses, but rarely and only a minute or two. If she goes longer than that, it’s because she threw all of her nuks out and wants them back.

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We put him down after giving a bottle and reading a book then he puts himself to sleep.

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We usually give a bottle then rock to sleep but lately our son has been fighting it so now we lay down in bed and he’ll roll around until he falls asleep and then we transfer him over to his crib.

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Ah my baby is not a settler. I could leave him in his cot for 12 hours he would not settle or sleep he needs lots of help. And that's okay for us. We rock or feed him to sleep, we follow his queues and lay him down once he's asleep. He's going through a phase where he won't link sleep cycles he wakes up every hour and a half. But we're going through something here, it's either teeth or a leap. On a good day he will go up to 3/5 hours straight without waking.
But putting him to sleep never affects this we always help him out and he goes down relatively fast sleep.

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Bath, if it's a bath night.
Change into sleep sack.
Brush out wipe teeth/gums
Read special night time books.
Say good night to the stuffed animals in his room (and his deer clock where I point out the time)
Turn off the lights and turn on white noise.
I nurse him to sleep. I know I probably need to drop this part, mostly for his tooth health, but just not ready yet)
Half the time he is still awake when I put him in his crib, say goodnight and I love you. He may sometimes cry a little, but the longer we've been doing this exact routine, the shorter the cries get, sometimes none at all.

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I just pop him in his cot after his last bottle and a cuddle and he usually goes straight off to sleep. If he was to cry I’d leave him for 10 mins before going in for another cuddle

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We had rocked to sleep since he was born but the last two weeks I started sleep training. He now puts himself to sleep with no crying and sleeps through the night.

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I used to nurse to sleep, but now I just wait until he’s really tired and then put him in crib and I sit there with my hand in the crib and he fusses for a while but eventually goes down. First night it was 2 hours, second night was 30 minutes. With my first baby he started sleeping through the night once I started this routine, so I’m hoping it’s same way. Second baby is 10 months old and has never once slept through the night. It’s ok though, I like the snuggles, they grow up too fast.

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He goes to sleep on his own.  Sometimes I sing a song while rocking him (1-2 mins) but that doesn’t seem to help him go down, it’s more for me or my husband to say goodnight to him.   It can take him a good 15 mins to actually knock out but at this point he prefers to do it on his own - no more falling asleep in mommy and daddy’s arms.

How do you put your baby down at night?

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