Rocking to sleep?

[AngelDog]

I'd be interested to hear from those of you with babies who need rocking to sleep (or to a state of drowsiness). How did you do it, especially once they became bigger / older / heavier? DS needs either motion or feeding to get him drowsy, but he is a big 18lb and I'm wondering whether there's a way of rocking him which doesn't make my arms ache. I do have a rocking chair.

Incorparate something else into your rocking routine.... soft singing or stroking. He will learn to associate that with sleep. Slowly phase out the rocking at the same time.

This worked with DS2 and he gradually stopped needing any of this stuff to get to sleep.

I rock back and forth on my gym/labour ball. Am trying to phase it out as Shockers describes by singing at the same time but at the mo a bit of rocking is still required.

Thanks, both. Shockers, can you remember roughly how long it took to phase out the rocking?