I also used sleep associations like feed, bath, dressing with soft music, drawn curtains, lowered voices but then I breast fed all my babies to sleep which is contradictory to the advice of stricter books... And then we co slept. Basically because this seemed to be what my babies wanted... Happy baby Happy mumma I also TOTALLY reject any notion that a baby is manipulative or spoilt as many of the stricter books suggest... Utter rubbish.