How to stop rocking your child to sleep

*If you want to.

In this masterclass, I share the gentlest way to begin working on getting less involved when you are rocking, or bouncing your child to sleep.

You can get started on this at any age, but honestly, I wouldn't consider starting this until your child is past 12 weeks of age. Often infants need the extra help to get to sleep, it's normal and not anything that needs changing.

[esli]

thank you so much for this! I have been looking for some help doing this so I really appreciate your help! I will start tomorrow!

[golddiggerboss]

Rocking for 5 min?! My daughter will make us Rock her for a hour sometimes

[hleetv]

Hahaha.. I thought it's a real baby. Didn't see that coming. 😆

[JanineChin]

Thanks for sharing your method! The goal is to get baby in bed sooner each time. When do you stop adding the 30 seconds from the rocking step to the holding step? And what happens if your baby wakes up when you're laying them down in the crib? Do you start the process again?

[laurenwilson]

Hi, would love your advice on this please! My son is 18 months old and we are still bouncing him to sleep (on a gym ball!) he has never fallen asleep still and has always needed motion. We’ve tried before for a long period of time and it has been unsuccessful. I believe timings are right and we have a good routine and he sleeps through the night. Sometimes he does wake in the night but will roll over and go back to sleep. So I know this is possible.

However he just won’t drop off to sleep at nap or bedtime no matter how tired.

His bedroom is blacked out with white noise and bedtime doesn’t really take too long most of the time, longer for my husband than me.

Anyway, we bounce him until he falls asleep, but we can put him down straight away. So from your video, we don’t need to bounce when he’s asleep or stay still etc. to work to reduce the timings. Also, a lot of the time, as soon as he falls asleep, he kind of twitches his body to signal that he wants to be put down.

I hope that makes sense! So if we don’t bounce him, he doesn’t sleep, so we bounce but as soon as he’s asleep we can just put him down. So I don’t know how to stop the bouncing 😭 as much as I love the cuddles, he’s getting very heavy to do this now.

He isn’t talking yet and understands lots but I don’t feel that he would understand me explaining to him what he needs to do.

Please help! Desperate mama trying to save her arms and back haha 😂 wish I seen this video sooner!

[selenabelloso]

I’m going to try this. My daughters 7 month turning 8 in just a week and she’s now waking up about 1.5-2 hrs every night. She’s nursing, she’s teething as well. Could this be why? I don’t know. But I want to get a good night rest and I’m slowly losing my patience...

[shashannawilson]

My baby loves to be breastfeed to sleep at night