How to get my seven month old to self soothe/settle

[Mummy2bePL]

Hi everyone my little girl is nearly seven months and will only go to sleep in our arms. At night if she wakes a dummy will soothe her mostly without us picking her up. Is there any advice on how to get her to sleep without being in our arms. Thanks in advance

My son is 6 months and we have literally just started to see improvements in his self soothing. Firstly I took his dummy off him about 4 weeks ago. Cold turkey and was surprisingly okay. Be would wake up about 10 times a night if not more looking for him dummy. As soon as we removed it his sleep instantly improved. I've been researching self soothing for months and it honestly makes me to insane. What I have learnt is what ever you do to get them to sleep they will wake up later and expect it again, so if rock, pat or shush to sleep they expect it every time. So I did this, have a bedtime routine and stick to it. We do bath, book bottle then bed. He goes in his cot awake. I then leave the room straight away after telling him sleepy time. If he whinges I leave him. If he cries even for a second I return back to him, I never ever let him cry it's cruel. I then pat his bum or pick him up to soothe him then back in bed and leave the room. At first I was up and down stairs all the time at first. The same goes for nap time. I do a similar routine for naps too. Just a shortened version of bed time. So upstairs bum change and put in bag, lights down low and in bed. Leave the room. The first week is he'll on earth but you will get there. I also take him up to bed around 15 minutes before his estimated nap time so it gives him chance to self sooth and not get over tired. If he passes his time and I can clearly see he is struggling then j will go and intervene. Hope this helps x