My baby is 4.5 months old and I have a question about the way she goes to sleep. To give a bit of background, she has slept well at night since birth, obviously waking up a lot in the early weeks for feeding but now will happily sleep for 7 hours at a time. Sometimes she will wake up briefly in the night and settle herself back to sleep quite happily without making a noise at all.
I would like reassurance (I hope) that the way she is getting to sleep is ok.
At bedtime after bath etc. I feed her and then put her in her cot. 9 times out of 10 she will cry a little (whingey low-level crying rather than distressed crying) for anywhere between 30 seconds and 5 minutes before sucking her thumb and falling asleep.
Is this ok that she is crying a bit before going to sleep? Its not in the same vein as controlled crying is it?
If I stay with her she becomes more agitated. She actually seems to prefer to be left to her own devices to get to sleep.