in November 2023 Babies 🇬🇧

Does your toddler fall asleep independently?

Not counting in pushchair/car seat. My daughter has always needed rocking but where she’s getting so big, even my 6ft tall husband has trouble putting her down without waking her up! She can settle herself back to sleep overnight unless she’s teething or feeling unwell, but if we put her down even the slightest bit awake she’s up and shouting at us. If your child does fall asleep by themselves, did they do so on their own or did you have to sleep train?

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My son will settle himself to sleep with dad some of the time if he lays next to him and sings, other times he has to rock him. With me he feeds to sleep still and won’t have it any other way. We’ve never sleep trained he just pointed to his bed one night and asked to lay down. A floor bed over a cot if you’re still transferring makes life sooo much easier! x

I give her a bottle in her room and then lay her down in her cot and she falls asleep independently. It did take a week or so for her to get used to it, it wasn’t easy. I don’t think it was ‘sleep training’ we just layer her down and when she cried we went in layer her back down pat her back/bum and left again. There were a few tears but I never left her for more than 2/3 minutes to cry

She goes to sleep independently at night after some milk - I let her cry to sleep and she normally falls asleep within around 10 minutes. Its different for nap time though - I am just in the habit of feeding her to sleep for naps. I need to try and break this though.

We are currently in the process of letting him fall asleep independently we go in tuck him in etc and only go in if he cry’s say goodnight and we leave again it’s taking around 20/30 mins at the moment but it’s slowly getting there xx

Same as you, she needs cuddled to sleep, even though at nursery they just rub her back like magic… I can occasionally get her to go to sleep by lying her down and rubbing her back but it requires endless patience as shes jumping up like a yoyo and rolling around and playing, so I dont bother as it doesnt save time, holding her in our arms only takes like 5 mins

When our LG was younger, we rocked and fed to sleep, but it got to a point where we were rocking for upwards of 45 mins before we could attempt to put her down, and even then she’d be back up within 30 mins. We decided to gently sleep train (going in after timed increments to shush and pat and back out again) and within a couple of nights (and importantly with very minimal upset) she learnt to self soothe and has done ever since. We were so apprehensive to try it because of all the horror stories we had read but we were lucky that our lG responded really well to it and has slept much better ever since as a result

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