How do you get your littles to sleep?

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So The easiest way to get my son to sleep has always been to rock him while he has a bottle and he falls right to sleep. Other than that it is such a struggle! Now that he is old enough to be completely off formula, and I just ran out of his last can… I’m nervous for how bedtime is going to go tonight.

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I do the same routine with him every night… change his diaper put into pjs, sleep sack. Feed him whole milk, after he’s done he’s gets put in his crib awake and he sleeps himself

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We still rock with a bottle every night. Our babies are still babies. Falling asleep is very very vulnerable so babies want to be close to their parents to feel safe. If your babe is falling asleep easily with what you’re doing I wouldn’t change anything. It won’t be long and they won’t want our cuddles anymore....

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I try to keep the same routine every night. Everyday to be honest. As soon as I started doing it routinely I swear things got so much better. 8pm milk. Spends some time with me and his dad since dad works all day. 8:30-8:45 we are in his room putting on pjs and then read a story. Kisses goodnight and we leave the room. He cries for a moment but literally just 1 minute. Then puts himself to sleep. Going to cut back to 1 nap a day so hopefully bedtime will be around 8 🤞🏼 I can only hope lol

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Update on how it’s going?
We still rock our LO while he has a bottle and are going to be changing over this week 😬  I don’t feel comfort giving him a sippy cup in his crib so I planned to still rock him while he drinks for a week or two so he adjusts to no bottle, and then start having his last sippy at dinner and no drink at bedtime. Pray for me 😂

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We haven’t rocked our baby in months, he would usually just lay down with a bottle. He’s a little over a year now and has been off formula for about a month or so. We still give him a little sippy cup of whole milk at bedtime for now and he goes right to sleep once he’s done with it. Maybe try laying him down with the sippy cup and see how your baby does with that

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Start following eat-play-sleep. Have a consistent bedtime routine. Move bottle to the start of the routine so he doesn't associate it with needing it to fall asleep. If you're weaning him off formula, have you started introducing milk of any kind? If so, just put that in the bottle at the start of his bedtime routine. The older they are, the more resistant they are to change but he can do this.

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we weaned off formula and bottle a month ago and would pat her to sleep but that all changed when she got her 1 year vaccines on the 18th these really scared her and also gave her a rash all over her body and a low grade fever a week after. the only way she felt better was a bottle before bed otherwise she was cranky. so we need to wean again but for the rest of the week i’ll be letting her rest and still give her bottle she’s been through enough🥲

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He needs to learn to get to sleep himself which may be a process now if he hasn’t really done it before. You could try no rocking straight down but still with a bottle. I’ve just started doing that as baby will hold the bottle herself and it helps calm her. Good luck

How do you get your littles to sleep?

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