Using music to settle to sleep

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Or white noise... Does it count as self soothing?
Is it just another prop?
Somewhat irrationally I worry if it's a poor long term solution because I'd be screwed if there was a power cut.

All babies need some form of prop to sleep. They do not have the emotional capacity to self-sooth in the way an adult does (ie lie down, close eyes, sleep) until school age.

Dummy, teddy, blankie, feeding, white noise, tunes, rocking, holding, co-sleeping etc etc - You just need to find the prop that works best for you.

To answer your question - depends on how you define self soothing. To me, it means baby being about to go to sleep without adult intervention. My DD self-soothes, she uses a dummy.

That made sense to me until this morning when I fed her until she came off, tried to rock her but she arched away from me so put her down and left the room, she cried quite gently and intermittently for 2 minutes then has been quiet and still, so I assume asleep, for 45 minutes so far.
What's the prop there? Her cot? The dark? The gro bag? I'm so confused, read so much that seems to conflict.

Full tummy does it too, especially in the first 6 months.

In fact full tummy but not suckling is the easiest and wisest way to get baby to sleep in the first 20 ish weeks.

Sorry, posted too soon.

What you need to remember though is that as baby gets older, she cannot always go to sleep with a full tummy. So introducing and establishing something to help trigger sleep makes life much easier later on.

Yes that's where I'm at FATE, she's 11 months and feeding to sleep isn't always working. Sometimes resulting in her getting really cross with me. I've half heartedly tried some sleep training techniques thinking 'you've got to be cruel to be kind' because it's probably a bit late to establish a comforter now.
She refused dummies when little and the thought of having to get up and replace it for her put me off.

Oh sorry, I feel bad now. I didn't realise your baby was older, I thought you meant your young baby.

You have my sympathies . You are of course right, it is not likely that your DD will establish a comforter now in the way she would as a younger baby.

But maybe worth a try? You can at least explain to her in a way you can't with a tiny baby. How about introducing a special teddy or doll - to "help you go to sleep on your own like a big girl", kind of thing. Might not work, but you could try.

I think a dose of tough love may be needed though.

We did it with DS when he was coming up for a year. It was part of his bedtime routine - bath, feed, cuddle, up to bed, story, music on, lights out (he had a sleep light - one of those star projector things). It took a few tries but soon started working. If he's had a bad dream or can't sleep now he'll put his music on. He's 9 now. It's sounds of the sea with gentle plinky plonky type piano over the top & soothing flute sounds (I'm really selling this aren't I?).

We've just bought a light/music thing for 15 week old DD- sounds like the same thing as ikiboo. It runs on batteries so you can take it away with you and no worries about a power cut. I'm hoping we might be able to ditch the dummy and swap in this and a blankie or toy instead.
I wouldn't worry too much about whether things are technically sleep props and whether uour DC can technically self soothe - of course some props are more problematic than others as time goes by such as feeding to sleep- but as adults we have a favourite pillow, ticking clock, etc that help us get to sleep quicker.

Oh please don't feel bad FATE, I didn't say.
I'm not sure what to do, will keep muddling through for now...