So I'm starting to loose my mind that I am spending every night lying beside DD waiting for her to fall asleep. I find it really frustrating I have to sneak out, holding my breath so she doesn't hear me, because if she wakes, it all starts over.

This isn't right.. right? This is not how bed times should be.

So, we've started something new. I'm currently sitting in my hallway on the laptop (yay for wireless internet), while she tosses and turns in the bed about 3 meters away. She's just watching me, fighting sleep and occassionally sticking her head up. She's not upset in any way, in fact she seems quite content.

If she falls asleep with me sitting here, where she can see me, is that considered 'self settling'? I'm a little confused as to what actually constitutes "self settling". Does it have to be where she's completely on her own? Or just not being rocked/fed/cuddled to sleep?

(( I do have the restrain from laughing when she casually crawled to the other end of the bed and a simple "go to sleep" from me resulted in her beelining back up to the pillows and slamming her head down all "What? I wasn't doing anything." like ))