6 month old, how to self settle

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My 6 month old goes to sleep fairly well at night usually falling asleep on the bottle or being rocked. She will then wake up about 3 times a night for a bit of boob (I'm combi feeding). It's not a huge issue, I'm not sleep deprived but I would love her to start sleeping through if possible.

During the day I have to rock her to sleep. It used to be a sling... but she's a big girl and want to get her to self settle as I'll break my back soon!! I've just ordered a cot mattress etc so will like her to nap in her cot and eventually sleep there at night too. We are cosleeping at the moment and most her naps are on the sofa or on blankets on the floor (always supervised)

I guess I want to know how to train her to sleep by herself. Night is not too bad it's more the day naps as I can't physically rock her much longer!

Any advice appreciated! Thank you xx

Just bumping in case anyone has anything

Have a look at Lyndsey Hookway's Instagram page for habit stacking for moving on from rocking to sleep.

WRT sleeping through the night, unless you want to go down the sleep training route it sounds like you have a pretty decent thing going, my 6mo is a co-sleeper and wakes once or twice between 9 (bedtime) and 2 then from 4ish til 7.30 (get up time), she's essentially not happy unless she has a nipple in her mouth! Maybe you could side-car the cot to the bed so you can each have a bit more room?

Have a look at the book The No Cry Sleep Solution, it really helped us transition from rocking the baby to sleep to her going to sleep by herself. Note of warning, we did have to use a dummy to achieve that (not in the book recommended above!). But the dummy meant that she would put herself back to sleep if she stirred in the night thus saving my sanity.

My 7 month old just didn't need rocked one day when he was around 6 months. I do pay his bum tho to get him to sleep. Easy enough to do during the night🙈I used to be quite stressed that he would be 5 and still need rocked. Now I'm a firm believer in they get there in their own time. I new I could never do cry it out m...his wee sad face just breaks my heart never mind doing it intentionally!

Thanks for your replies will have a look at your suggestions!