My 8 month old has previously been fed to sleep at night, bounced to sleep in the day. She would sleep in the pushchair or sling but this took longer to achieve and was less reliable. Now the feeding and bouncer look like going the same way. It takes an age to get her off for daytime naps - up to half an hour of bouncing. I've tried putting her down earlier to account for this and to off-set possible overtiredness, and also putting her down later in case she's not tired. No difference - it takes forever. Feeding to sleep at night works, but I have lost the ability to unlatch her and get her into cot without her waking. It takes me 3 or 4 goes every night, no matter how deep a sleep she seems to be in. I need to start getting her to settle in the cot.
So my question is how? I have tried sitting next to her stroking her tummy, and once or twice she's dropped off after half an hour, but mostly she just squiggles about, gets cross and starts shouting. She's never had a dummy, she has a snuggly toy, but to be honest I'm not sure she really differentiates between that and any of the other toys she enthusiastically chews. What do you actually do to get them to sleep? Or do you just sit out the crying and eventually it gets better?!
When making this rod for my own back I at least assumed I'd have some choice in when I dealt with it! 