I’m aware that some of you may not agree with this, however I’m trying to create healthy sleep habits that I did not do with my son. My first born solely relied on me to fall asleep at night until he was 3. I would rock him for an hour, and he awoke very soon after day after day. I was so exhausted that I would hallucinate on my drive home from work and have to pull over so I didn’t fall asleep behind the wheel. I’m real good at being able to fall asleep sitting up or where ever I am. I even fell asleep at a funeral recently.. my son is now 4 and a good sleeper. With new baby he sleeps well, with a few nighttime feeds, but goes to sleep late. He falls asleep easily after 2am. Anything before not so much. I however have to get up to work at 5:30 so this doesn’t work. I want to learn to self soothe. I get him settled to where he’s sleepy and fed and changed and I lay him down. He will doze off for a few minutes and wake up within 20 minutes and then we go on this cycle for HOURS of him waking over and over due to him knocking out his paci. So I’m trying something new. Not necessarily the cry it out method, but I give him 10-15 minutes to give him a chance to settle himself. If his cry’s get to that over the top cry I’ll go get him, but if not then I’ll give him a few minutes until I go back in the room. And I’m making sure he falls asleep without his paci. I know it’s safer for him to sleep with it but when he’s OUT he drops it out anyways. If he’s not ready for bed the paci falling out wakes him. Any experiences with this? Any suggestions? Or what has worked for you? I learned that this may work when I needed to take a moment cause I was tired and needed to step out of the room and he fell asleep on his own within 10 minutes. So I’m hopeful this will help him get better sleep.