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S is only 4 months, but we got into the really bad habit of rocking him from the start. We just recently started sleep training him a few weeks ago, and that's been going well. We can now put him down without rocking him. He'll whine for about 15 minutes (sometimes less) and will turn on his side and go to sleep. Here's hoping the 4 month sleep regression doesn't put us back to rocking!

Nope, sometimes we'll let her take a nap in her swing, but we don't do any rocking at bedtime.

Yes we do but not by choice. After sleep training DD, she caught a cold, that's still lingering. Ever since, we've had to rock her to sleep. The good thing is that she's gone back to sleeping for 8 hour long stretches. The downside is that she wakes up at 4am and refuses to go back to sleep. We seriously need to find a way to get her to wake up later

Yup, pretty much until last week (she's 11 months old). So awesome now that she will go to sleep on her own!!

I'm terrible I nurse her to sleep

Yup, especially for naps, but usually for bedtime too. I don't really mind it, since he usually stays asleep once we put him down.

She's almost 4 months old and we try not to rock her to sleep unless she's really fussy, however she is in teh habit of falling asleep on us at night and than we put her i the crib. This isn't a good habit either, although she will wake up when we put her in the crib and go back to sleep on her own after a minute of fussing.

@jessiejo17: I look forward to the night rocking because it's the only time I get to do it with him anymore since returning to work.

We don't rock to sleep, but we do rock some. It's part of his bedtime routine. Just a few minutes of rocking and snuggling in the dark, and then awake in the crib. Plus I enjoy that time with him since it's the only part of the day he'll allow snuggling.