I feel a bit guilty because my baby is 11 months old and cries himself to sleep every night, and every nap too actually!
He was breastfed and would fall asleep quite happily on the boob but since stopping although he takes a bottle fine he doesn't fall asleep. I did used to give him his bottle and then rock him to sleep but he cried for way longer this way as he'd try and get milk from me and get distressed.
So now he has his bottle from me, I read him a story/sing to him, give him a cuddle for a few minutes and a kiss and say night night then leave the room. He cries for up to 5 minutes, on a good night he will only cry for a minute maybe less but some nights he will cry for about 4/5 minutes and then he falls asleep. If I go back in and pick him up and rock him he'll cry for even longer I find!
I read a thread on here about sleep training and someone mentioned how cry it out doesn't work in that they learn to self settle they just realise no one is coming and give up and it was gut wrenching because I've never done any sort of sleep training or so I thought, but am I putting him through 'cry it out' every single night?!