Still rocking my 15 month old to sleep

[shannonhinton0421]

Hiya, so my son is 15 and half months old and still rocked to sleep for both naps and bedtime.
He's always been in a good routine since he was about 3/4 months old, at the moment he naps about 10/11am for 2/3 hours and then bedtime between 7:15, most nights he sleep through if he does wake, sometimes he will go back to sleep on his own but other times he will want to be rocked and sometimes we rock him for over an hour because every time we place him back in his cot he wakes back up.

Sometimes we we rock him to bed he's asleep within 5 mins other times it can take way over an hour. I really don't know how to stop this, I've tried laying him in his cot and me standing by his cot but he just laughs and think we are playing.
He's sleeps in own room, he will not go to sleep anywhere else except him bedroom and the car sometimes.

Any advise would be much appreciated

So first of all, it is normal that your child still needs help getting to sleep. Your DS is still really young. If you are struggling with the rocking, have you ever heard of habit stacking?

I really recommend Lyndsey Hookway, she has several books about sleep and pages on Instagram and Facebook "feed sleep bond" which have useful advice

My daughter is 17mo and either sleeps on the boob or held by her dad as he walks slowly round the room or my mum rocks her.

Thank you so much for this reassurance, everyone keeps saying to me "he's 1 now, he should be going to sleep on his own" everything else is brilliant he's sleeps all night in own room, i know some babies really struggle with this, so thank you so much

I still rock my little boy and he was 2 in April although I must admit it's getting harder now as he's so big I need to stop but I can't handle the tears

My 15 month old has exactly the same routine. We still cuddle her to sleep. I love it. She will be too big soon so I am enjoying it while it's lasts. She will settle if we lay her down and hold her hand too but it takes much longer

I ricked mine for ages! No regrets. But it was hard work. Dd did grow out of it gradually- older than your ds though. Ds I ended up sleeping for sanity- this continued until around 3. If you're happy keep going, if not hug, rock put down but rock in cot worked for dd... eventually.

Ignore everyone else- so many people give you advice, you do you and yours.

Yeah I'm the same, It's hard. I don't want to listen to him cry when I know a cuddle and Little Rock will help him and is clearly what he wants, I know he feels safe, but my poor back lol

What happens if you put him down in the cot and just walk out of the room?

With mine, I rocked him until about six months. We swapped rocking for a cuddle. I got a comfy chair in his room and just held him till he nodded off. Then at about a year we started putting him down in the cot to fall asleep. We had to walk out the room though. If we were in with him, he pissed about.

Sometimes he will go to sleep on his own without crying or anything but it's not very often, so I know he knows how too he just doesn't want to.
I see him wake up in the middle of night sometimes on his monitor, he will sit up in his cot for about 15 mins and just go back to sleep.

I have told my partner now that he if he wakes up now during the night leave him until he cries, because sometimes soon as we notice he's awake we would go straight to him, especially my partner