Hi @ShutterHaze
sure! I started him around 10 months and 3 weeks old.
My DS fed each nap and night time to sleep with three feeds at night and then some wake ups in between which needed rocking cuddling! The feeding to sleep wasn't my problem, it was the very frequent night wakings and the struggle with getting him to nap, also he is a heavy baby and rocking him wasn't an option anymore!
I started with bed time, i laid him in his cot and sat on a chair right next to him - singing/shushing/patting.. if he stood up, I laid him back down, if he cried and didn't settle with a pat/song i picked him up and rocked a bit but laid him back pretty soon after. (He takes a dummy and i put extra dummies in the cot which he holds for comfort).
Basically repeated this for 45mins until he fell asleep half in my arms, half in the cot, crying a bit but nothing crazy or distressing. The next day I did the same for day naps. Also took the same amount of time. Second night he cried more (typically second and third nights are hardest apparently) BUT he all of a sudden skipped his 11 o clock wake to feed and slept till 03:00 for the first time!
He is still breast fed - For night time feeds I feed him 30 before bed to avoid him falling asleep.
And day time i feed him at wake ups to avoid feeds before nap time.
First couple days took 30-45 mins, now it takes 5-10 mins, sometimes 15 max but pretty much no crying, only a bit of moaning. Also i rarely still need to pick him up, only sometimes lay him back down from standing when he is really fighting sleep.
This is a nice age to do this cause I feel like he gets it!
Also if he is ever so exhausted that he does fall asleep in my arms i can immediately put him down, whereas before i always waited for a deep sleep.
He does still wake at night and is sometimes tricky to settle but not nearly as much as before. I tried to continue the method for night wakes but once it took an hour and he was still not sleeping so I gave up on that and either rock him or feed him and put him back in his cot or in the early morning hours take him into my bed.
He goes for 8hrs without a feed now (before it was never longer than 3-4!) and bed/nap times happen much quicker!
Trick to remember is to have a little wind down routine before a nap ie nappy, closing curtains, saying goodbye for sleepy time to whoever is at home, songs… i found it helped when he associated certain routine and cues with sleep. He also has a dummy for sleep and i put 6 others in there.. he holds them for comfort and can easily find one when he wakes at night.