When your baby cries at night, take a second to think of the things you do to fix the problem for yourself when you wake up at night. Your baby depends on you to do things for them that they can’t do for themselves.

Self-soothing is developmental and not something you can force before a baby is ready by letting them cry. What they’re doing isn’t self-soothing. They are just stopping crying because they no you’re not coming to help them.