Getting children asleep....how

When my daughter was only a year old I still nursed her to sleep. That's still just a baby!

I agree with the music idea. Try feeding him, and then rocking him to sleep. Maybe he'll get used to the music and you can use that to be his new routine. I also had to bite the bullet and let my daughter cry it out once. I warned everyone in the house i was doing it and let her cry. It took two nights and that was it. She went to bed on her own after that. And her crib was in our room too. I would say make your decision soon before then get very very set in their ways and make it impossible.

We all slept off in our mothers boobs, it is very significant for mother to child bonding, just continue with the tactic of sneaking off, because introducing a new and drastic change of pattern after over year with this approach would negatively affect the peace of the little baby, it is better to endure te delayed sleep than having a child grow up in an emotional distress!

I would recommend (but if you don't like the idea it's all good too) that you think about introducing a bottle :) Only for the before bed feed though - that way you wont have to worry about middle of the night feeds (if he still does it) & he'll be nice & full for a whole night & there wont be any falling asleep on the boob. Or, if you don't want to use formula (even for the 1 feed) you could express milk for the bed feed & put it an a bottle - if you can express enough of course! What am i thinking??? At 12 months they can have cows milk :) just give him the 1 bottle of warm cows milk when you put him down & that should help! You could try the toddler formula too - it's a nutrient drink rather than formula so they get all their daily nutrients since they cant yet eat enough to get all the goodies they need! My daughter is 13 months now & when she starts to get tired, i have a bottle of warm milk made for her & she goes in to her cot, drinks her milk & falls asleep once she's full!

Babies that are brst-fed are more likely to wake at night than those bottle-fed. Babies need a routine and to follow sleep patterns, they usually more soothed and calmed by a male's deeper speech, and can fall asleep more smoothly upon hearing it for some time. Babies that spend a lot of time on the arms of their mothers are generally more releaxed and sleep better. At least you and your baby have a very good bonding while going to bed, but some says that its not good i have read this before: if you have been co-sleeping, rocking/nursing to sleep and/or holding your baby while s/he sleeps in order to get your child sleep, you need to stop this habit, that by doing this you are instilling a belief in your baby that they will be sleeping with you all the time and you will have real trouble getting your baby to sleep in their own. In order to break this habit put your baby to bed and leave the room. No matter how much they cry, do not return to comfort them immediately. Instead, wait for 5 minutes the first time and then gradually increase this time. You will soon find after a week or two that your baby will happy to sleep on their own. Try this to your baby its hard to do but maybe it'll help you. Try to brstfed your baby ahead before her/his sleeping time and then observe him/her if her stomach full and stop him, by that time try to let her/him sleep without your boob on her/his mouth.

If you are not comfortable with allowing him to cry, then it is going to be tough to do anything else. First of all children do best with routines. This in mind, choose your routine carefully. I think that if a child has been nursed, changed and spent a few quality moments with you (rocking, singing , or reading) then it is okay to lay them down in bed, say good night and shut the door. I keep a night light in my son's room. He very rarely cries when I lay him down because he knows he has to go to sleep on his own. Some people aren't comfortable with that, but then you have to keep sneaking out.