to be cuddling my two year old to sleep

[tiredmummy33]

and quite liking it! my gorgeous boy is very affectionate and appears to want to be cuddled to sleep atm. he is my last child so i am enjoying it but i know rod for my own back etc. he wasnt cuddly as a baby, i failed miserably at bf, he was a daddys boy for ages but now its mummy all the way!

That rod stuff is bullshit. I think it only applies if you aren't happy doing it.

my ds1 is 6 now and I put him to sleep on my lap until he was nearly 3. He decided one night he wanted to go to bed like a big boy and that was that.
Ds2 is 20 months and we lie on our bed with him until he drifts off then carry him into his cot. We have no intention of stopping this any time soon!

Enjoy it op, they are little for such a short time.

Another vote for rod = bullshit

DS1 was fed to sleep as a baby and til 18m when he weaned, from 18m to about 2.6 he was cuddled to sleep, then I sat outside his door for only about a week before he went to sleep on his own. Now he's 2.10 and will take himself up to bed on his own if he gets tired!

DS2 was fed to sleep til about 1 (he is a much easier baby than his brother!) he is now 16m and cuddled to sleep.

Yanbu

Dd hates being cuddled to sleep at night and always has but she usually cuddles into me for her daytime nap. I will miss it so much, she's 3 soon and I presume she'll be dropping her nap :(

Ds always loved being cuddled to sleep, he's 6 now and still likes someone in with him as he drifts off but it usually only takes 5 minute so I'm fine with that. Truth be told I think he's still snuggle up into our laps and go to sleep if wed let him / he still fit.

(Note, the only reason I stopped laying with ds1 to get him to sleep was that I kept dropping off myself! So whereas I used to take both him and ds2 in his bed to go to sleep, he now goes in his own bed while I sit up in my bed cuddling ds2 to sleep)

YANBU.
On your death bed those times will be some of your happiest memories.
(don't mean to be morbid btw - I just always run things through the death-bed filter)

YANBU

I often cuddle ds3 (8) off to sleep. It's the best part of my day.

He has ASD and his behaviour can be very challenging; sometimes I feel so angry and frazzled with him by late afternoon. A story and a lovely cuddle to sleep resets are relationship thermostat at the end of the day. It really is blissful.

I'm aware that very soon this will stop happening - he will be a preteen and then a teen and we'll need to start to separate more. When that happens I'll look back on the cuddling to sleep as a very happy memory.

Meant to add, Ds doesn't NEED to be cuddled off to sleep. When I'm not here he sleeps happily on his own.