Will she really grow out of rocking to sleep?

[Heaven]

People keep telling me not to worry and that I won't be rocking DD to sleep forever, she will grow out of it.

But HOW? I really don't see how she will unless I somehow teach her (nightmare!).

So if your bub really did just grow out of rocking to sleep please share with me and give me some hope, LOL.

[Ginger]

hi heaven
my ds1 was rocked, breastfed and basically comforted to sleep every single time. i never 'taught' him to sleep.
now...at 21months....he goes and gets in bed, has a kiss and goes to sleep.
at night he has a story and a cuddle, then goes to sleep.
they do change hun, i promise! sometimes it just takes a while LOL
you're doing a great job

[Lulu]

They DO! I promise xoxoxo

[Marlene]

Jack used to love to be rocked to sleep then one day he just decided he didn't want it anymore, he would wiggle and push against me until I put him in his cot. They do grow out of it

[Visitor3]

Unfortunately no she wont grow ou of it. You'll be rocking her when she's 21 ! ..... Just kidding Ok she'll slowly grow out of it, but she will grow out of it, just like dummies and bottles or breastfeeding. Chin up

[Arimeh]

Jack used to love to be rocked to sleep then one day he just decided he didn't want it anymore, he would wiggle and push against me until I put him in his cot. They do grow out of it

Yup I totally agree. Happened with both my kids

Can't remember when it happened with DS though - but DD doesn't need to be rocked to sleep anymore, and hasn't for ... maybe a month ? She's 1 today. So its not tooooo much longer for you

Now we are onto the put in cot and stroke back/pat bottom to get off to sleep. DS only needs us to sit there with him and he falls asleep at night.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

oh hun.. i know how u feel. I felt exactly the same. DD was rocked till just after 6 months old. I thought it was never going to end. But it did. I have NOOOOO hope what so ever of rocking her to sleep now. (trust me, ive tried lol) they do grow up very quickly

So yes.. i can promise u, she WILL grow out of it.

[Bronzdbebe]

Heaven Hun I'd love to say my DS grew out of it but he didn't... he just grew so big that and I couldn't rock him to sleep any longer LOL although I would have. LOL. Like some others have said DS was BF and "held" until he went to sleep every night and unfortunately he only got worse, Once h was in his cot he had to be "patted to sleep" we ended up getting professional help BUT...Now he sleeps the night through 6.30pm to 7am in a single in his own room. Every child is different and while you might have some bumpy times as we did you will get there!

[Heaven]

The thing is, she's not so small anymore, my arms are dead!! LOL. So then I end up using the HAB for her sleeps and I don't want to have to bloody carry her around for the rest of her life!! LOL.

Oh no Bronzdbebe, what did you have to do?

Rainforest- I was just telling DH yesterday we should look at rocking chairs!! But they're pretty expensive hey, and then what if it doesn't work, lol. She needs pretty vigorous bouncing, haha, no idea how you can go to sleep like that.

It's not even so much the rocking that's bothering me coz it only takes her 5 mins or so to get to sleep but then I can't put her down or she wakes up and every time she stirs I have to rock her again or she wakes up crying

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Have u thought about going to a sleep school? I went.. it was great. It had nothing to do with CC and now DD is a self settler, with no tears (95% of the time).

[Ginger]

heaven- we bought my rocking chair from ebay when i was pg with ds1. from memory i think it was about $300 but it has been one of the best investments we've made- the cushion is nearly worn out from overuse!
i wrap ds2 up really tight in a big thick polarfleece blanket, sit in the rocking chair and rock him till he's really asleep and then manage to be able to put him down without him noticing, i think partly cos he's wrapped up so thickly iykwim? so he doesn't seem to notice the transition. might be worth a try for you?

[[M]umma[M]ia]

Mayb the op shops would be a good place to look for a rocking chair?

[Bronzdbebe]

Well when Zane got to big to rock i used to sit in a chair put a pillow under his head and lay him down on my knees and bounce him that way (I know very funny!) and then like you DD about 5 minutes later he was asleep so i would lay him and the pillow in his cot I'll add at this point that he was 12 months and the pillow was very flat. Then he got to long so I would just pat his back in the cot till he got to sleep, but if he ever woke in the middle of the night he couldn't settle himself we had to help him. It reached boiling point for us when he started getting molars and DH was away for weeks on end and i could have spent half the night settling and then by the time I got back to bed and nearly asleep he would wake again. Now by NO means what so ever am i saying this will happen to you as I said earlier every bub is different. So 2 months ago (approx) we got the Baby Whisperer out and she went through some techniques with us and now Zane goes to bed at about 6.30pm to 7am the next day, he does wake in the night but I no longer need to go into him all the time, obviously there are still nights where his cry is "pain" so of course I'm in there in a flash. He also climbed out of his cot so we moved him to his single bed and he doesn't come out of his room he knows now "sleep time" is exactly that, Same as for his day sleeps. I guess what i'm trying to say is that even if she doesn't "grow out of it" then there is help available to you if you need it, Just don't suffer in silence like I did. My GP put me onto the baby whisperer and I'm in brisbane, i'm sure there would be something like that in your area or something similar if you feel like thats an avenue you might like to explore. Huge Hugs Hunni, whether she grows out of it or not I promise you won't be doing it forever!!

Love S xox

[Heaven]

Thanks BB. Is that the woman I've seen on sunrise before? I'm in Brisbane too.