If I know DD can settle herself, do I still have to make her do it every single time?

[Anglepoise]

I know that she can do it because I've seen her do it, but sometimes I just want to put her down soundly asleep and drop into bed myself. I'm not going to be unteaching her how to self-settle, am I? Reassure me please!

She's 24 wks btw.

I think that as long as she's self-settling most of the time, it doesn't matter what you do the rest of the time. Though if you notice a pattern starting of only ever being settled by you, then you need to nip it in the bud.

Cheers, that's kind of what I figured. Funny how we can be terrified they're going to get into bad habits but don't really believe they're going to get into good ones!

Anglepoise - DS self-settles a lot and always at nap-time but sometimes (ie at 3.15 in the morning!) I just feed him back to sleep and be done with it. Have always done this and he is getting better not worse at settling. Having said that I am now trying to ensure I put him down awake mostly - but he is nearly 7 months old.