Baby sitting up in cot - how to teach them to lay down?

[SpringTime2023]

So my baby's just learnt how to sit up from laying down. Except now they only want to sit up in their cot, and haven't figured out how to lay down...cue lots of crying, and then falling asleep at awkward angle and/or falling asleep when sitting and banging head.

Is this a phase, or do I need to help them learn how to lay down without a big crash?!

It's not a phase. Don't we all still do this?

Nah. I can't help with what to do as mine refused the cot.

Just wait until they can stand! My daughter could go from asleep in my arms placed in the cot to be awake and stood up at the cot side in 3 nanoseconds

It might be a case of putting them down asleep or close to asleep so they associate the cot with lying but it's a tricky time when they love to show off their new movement! I've never been able to put my daughter down awake so can't offer much help

How old is baby? Ours did this at about 8 months and kept sitting up in the night for ages and couldn't work out how to lie down again. A few months later he worked out how to lie down again on his front only for some reason but sleeps well like this now at 1. He spent a week or so sleeping at a weird angle until he worked out how to lay comfortably.

When our DS did this, it coincided with a sleep regression - we used a sleep consultant to get through that time (it was amazing) to combat the sitting up we were advised to keep patting the mattress until he led back down. I was very skeptical, and it took a little while but it did click and he would lie back down. Hope that helps.

Thanks all. They're 9 months old. They're asleep on their back as I picked them up and they were so knackered that laying them back down on back didn't mean springing back up again.

Just keep lying them
Back again

We just spent a week or two going in to help them lie down if they'd been sitting up for a while and they figured it out pretty quickly.