Do you put your baby down to bed awake?

[MintSource]

I keep reading that this is crucial and would love to hear from those who have experience of putting their baby down to sleep while s/he is awake.

Baby Mint is running us ragged right now. He's 15 months and goes from bath/sleepsuit/milk to my arms (not rocking, just holding) and is asleep within about two minutes. Should I put him straight down after milk?

mint I think that's a good plan. It's what we've done with ours from day 1, IE not rush immediately if they call out. Especially with the older two as sometimes you cannot get to them immediately as another child needs you! They've pretty much always been able to self settle, provided they don't need something like feeding, winding etc. In fact, as you say, sometimes going to them wakes them up when otherwise they'd go back to sleep.

With DS1 he settled by himself fairly well but he had a dummy. With DS2 he is now 18 months and stopped feeding to sleep a few months ago. He started pointing at his cot and generally goes in awake but calm, rolls over and falls asleep. At the moment he is going through a phase of being excitable at bedtime and not wanting to settle down. Hoping this passes soon eternal optimist.

Oops, didn't mean to tag.

He started pointing at his cot and generally goes in awake but calm, rolls over and falls asleep.

How adorable is that? Aaah.

MintSource at the moment it's taking over an hour to get to that stage, by which time I'm exhausted and tearing my hair out but he is very cute and happy baby.

One of mine is very excitable.before bed. It means we've missed his tired cues, generally a little rough play (while surreptitiously changing him.into pjs) keeps him going until he is in his cot preferably with a small toy of some.kind.