When was baby able to get themselves to sleep??

[Chans11]

11 month still not able to do this..any tips??

3 months, hit or miss, with a swaddle and pacifier. It would take him about half an hour to settle and he wouldn't always manage it. Now trying to get back there after unswaddling!

Children aren’t able to get themselves to sleep until at the very least toddler years. It’s developmental; it’s just not possible before then.

you can teach your young baby to settle themselves by using shush Pat method - staying with them - and swaddling helps too. Also it’s important to watch for cues when they are getting tired so u can pop them down before they get overtired

Some babies fall asleep on their own from a young age!

Saying that though 11 months is totally normal to not be doing that. Eldest has gone through stages of completely independent sleep when very little, to needing of assistance and now at just over two she falls asleep whilst being read to. All of them are so different though.

6 months - Ferber method, worked like a dream. Life changing over night.

Now I literally feel like the fool ! I didn’t even think baby’s did this ! Mines is 11 months and he gets a bottle which he doses off on then I place him into bed where he gwherally stays all night ! R u guys seriously don’t telling me u can just pop ur baby in bed and they go to sleep !!

Mine were about 2.5 years old. I didn't do any kind of training I let them get to it when developmentally ready. Some children reach this stage much earlier. Some later.

Couldn't stand the idea that some people train their babies to not expect emotional support so give up crying.

My first was about 7 years old....... 🙄

2.5 years

Six here and still not able...

Mine doesn’t give up crying… he doesn’t cry at bedtime, he rolls over and is asleep before I get downstairs. I can see him on the monitor.

He cries/tantrums at lots of other times, as many 18 month olds do, so don’t worry his crying instincts are intact! 😁

About 5 months or so.

7-8 months. we used a dummy.

DD is 5 and still needs me to sit with her while she falls asleep. She was a terrible sleeper as a baby/toddler.
DS is almost 3 and has settled himself from the day he was born, I never needed to help him sleep at all.

I did everything the same with both, they're just all so different I guess.

Sorry but that's absolute bollocks. My first DD could never get herself to sleep until almost three. DD2 was born with the ability to do so and has consistently got herself to sleep ever since.

Eldest was about six months. He still fights sleep now and he's 9 YO!

Youngest was six weeks.

The annoying thing is she was able to till around 6 months. She knows dummy is sleep time but bedtime seems to be a constant battle at the moment. Really would like to be able to put her down awake but she cries within seconds or just sits up in cot

11 months, the same time she started refusing her bedtime milk. She would turn away from the bottle, put her dummy in her month and turn her back towards me.
I would leave the room and she'd lie there for 10 minutes until she fell asleep (I would watch her on the monitor).
She's 22 months now and does the same, I lay her down, give her at least 3 teddies of her choosing (this is vital), her dummy and then I walk out of her room. She's asleep within 10 minutes.

We've not done any sleep training or anything to encourage this, I think it's just the way she is.
The only thing we are insistent with is her bedtime routine which she's had since she was 12 weeks old.

6 months for both of mine. One had a dummy, one didn't.

My baby was making me a cup of bedtime cocoa and checking all the doors were locked before turning in on her own at six months.

Just saying.

Dd1 6 weeks, never had any sleep regression now6. Dd2 now 2.5, sleeps through about once a fortnight, I’m a walking zombie

Yes of my 3 , one appeared to just be able to fall asleep easily from birth, the second from about 6 months but the third needed a dummy and still struggles aged 5 years, she now reads / listens to audiobooks. They all vary wildly.

DD 5 1/2 and still waiting. DS 4 weeks and never looked back. Tried everything with DD, DS needed very little encouragement. They are who they are and sometimes you find a method that works for you, other times... not so much.

My baby is only 6 months and no, he doesn't go to sleep without help. But I remember myself as a little kid going to bed next to mum with a bottle of water and mum reading to me and staying until I fell asleep. We had a big mattress on the floor where we both fit to lie down comfortably. I must have been at least 3yo as we were in the house we moved into when I was 2.5yo. I moved into a 'real' bed eventually and stopped needing the help, probably not much older than maybe 4.

Thanks for all your replies! I am debating sleep training but dont want to do crying out. She goes down fine atter being held to sleep but thinking would be good to be able to put her down awake but mayhe shes stil too young