I want to stop rocking my baby to sleep

[Natalie654321]

Hello,
I have a 10 month old. She usually sleeps 7-6:30. Some nights she wakes twice, some nights she sleeps through.
I rock her to sleep for all her naps and at night and then put her in her cot. I really want to stop doing it as it would be so nice to be able to put her in her cot and she falls asleep herself.
How did people transition their babies from being rocked to sleep to sleeping independently?
Thank you for any tips or help!!

Mine was younger but I recall, rocking more gently then just holding close and not rocking at all, not a quick process. Then waking slightly just before putting down.

I think the way to do this is to start putting her down when she is drowsy but still awake, and then move the bit when you put her down earlier in the process over a few days.
If you swaddle, or at least cuddle her in a sheet you will put her down in, that will mean she isn't put down on a cold sheet (which will make her wake up).

I rocked mine to sleep till he was quite big (14 months or so) - it was hard work! I ended up getting help from a sleep consultant but basically what sorted it was a gradual plan from starting a bedtime routine to putting him in his cot awake and sitting next to it and leaning in to cuddle him when needed, to not leaning in, and moving my chair away, eventually retreating out of the room. I now put him down and leave the room and he sleeps through. The routine is really important so that your DC knows what’s coming, and for us, going through stages of retreat in terms of how much I physically comforted him as he learned to self-settle and in terms of my physical presence by his cot was what worked. HTH!