Okay. We're starting daycare in July and I'm really quite peturbed about DS sleeping. He is 7.5 months old. At the moment the only way to get to DS to sleep is to either feed him off to sleep or to sit on a fitball and bounce gently up and down (both options with the Music for Dreaming CD playing) till he shuts his eyes and goes to sleep.

The daycare centre has a fitball and they have said that they settle all the babies in accordance with how the parents settle them. This gives me some comfort but in any case the fitball thing can't go on forever and it is starting to drive DH and I mad. And DS is getting heavy!!!

My dearest wish - even more than getting him to sleep through the night - is to be able to pop him in his cot and say nighty-night and let him go to sleep all by himself. I am thinking the best way of doing this is to slowly wean him off the bouncing by trying to put him down not quite asleep, then drowsy, then slowly stop the bouncing, then turn the music volume lower and lower...etc etc.

Has anyone else had a similar situation? How long did it take to get your babies to self-settle? Can I hear your war stories please?