Help or encouragements on Self-soothing

[MarieVM]

Hello,

for many reasons, we are now hoping to help my little girl to fall asleep independently. I understand she is still young (5 months) and there are disagreement on self-soothing or self settling but that's what we need to try to do for my family right now.
Previously LG always fell asleep nursing and napped always on me, never in crib/got. she won't take a dummy but we have a good bedtime routine
Took me round 45 minutes to get her to nap in her cot (by using cuddling method -crib/cry/cuddle repeat).
Please tell me it gets easier?
any suggestions to try to make this process easier?
in your experience how quickly did LO get it?
Many thanks

Following as I could have written your post myself. DS a similar age. How is she at night? As well as my son only wanting to sleep on me in the day, he is up every hour at night 😴 sorry I have no advice. X

Also following!! My ds is coming up to 4 months. Nights are (mostly) good, he goes to sleep between 7-8 until 1-2, wakes for a feed and then sleeps until 5.30-6.30. He has 3 naps (usually) morning, lunchtime and late afternoon. I do let him nap on me, probably too often, I should really put him down more in the day!

He can't really self settle yet. He either feeds to sleep or we rock/cuddle him. He has gone to sleep on his own about 3 times, ever! If we put him down and he just slightly wakes/stirs, sometimes he goes back off on his own, but often it's either that stays asleep or fully wakes! It's so hard to get that perfect 'sleepy but awake' all the aps/books talk about!! We keep trying though.

Things we try - putting him down when he's rubbing his eyes /yawning, with white noise etc. Swaddling, which we'll probably have to stop soon when he starts rolling (also worried this will affect how long he sleeps for, but that's another story!)

Definitely open to ideas/tips!

she is ok at night thankfully, up once or twice but that's keeping me sane... she only wakes cause she can't get back to sleep without boob... when on me during night she hardly eats, it's only comfort... Naps are nightmare... won't nap for long and has to be on boob on me constantly... it's nice to cuddle but I ll soon have to work and use my time very efficiently

The last 2 nights, after Joe has had his middle of the night feed (about 2am) he's still been awake. We tried putting him down, wrapped up and with his sounds on... He got himself to sleep both times!! 😀

Trying to improve the daytime nap situation now, hoping the lockdown will improve our routine (looking for silver lining wherever I can!)

I'm worried about how to get him to settle / sleep through when we can't swaddle him though. He rolled from front to side for the first time over the weekend and although it's fantastic to see and very exciting, I know this means that soon the swaddling will have to stop. He's so wriggly though! I really worry he's going to be always waking himself up. We put him in sleeping bags, with arms in at the moment, but will need to free his arms soon I think. Any advice?? Xx