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@Mrs. Bee: before she started crawling out of bed (floor bed) I nursed her down to sleep about 85% of the time. Sometimes she would stay awake for a few minutes before cooing herself to sleep.
Now that she crawls I nurse her down every time. I know when she's due for a nap and bed so it only takes about 10-15 minutes.

@Mrs. Bee: I'm definitely not going to be able to nurse our future kids down like I'm doing now. It took a lot of trial and error before I finally figured out Lo's sleep cues/schedule. Sometimes I took her upstairs too early and she wouldn't fall asleep nursing! When she wouldn't sleep I'd keep her up another 30 mins-an hour, wait for my milk to replenish, then try again..
Lo ate a lot during her first few months of life. Haha

I rocked my LO as a newborn. She NEVER fell asleep during feeds. But then at about 4.5 months she got sick of me rocking her. So one night I just put her down awake and 5 minutes later she was asleep!! And so that was the night I like to say she "sleep trained" herself. (however, you see on the other thread that she stopped napping at 15 months so life is not all blissful!)

She doesn't have a set nap time where i put her now, when she falls asleep, it's nap time.lol It's usually the same time though. At night, she falls asleep around 6 or 7.

Naps are tough for us because LO loves movement. We either put her in the stroller, swing, or car seat. Or sometimes she'll fall asleep with a bottle in my arms.

Bed time is very different. She has her bottle and goes right to sleep (sometimes she's awake when we put her down and sometimes she isn't). She sleeps for 12 hours straight and has since 2 1/2 months. We just got lucky!

Typically I nurse her down for naps and night but we can also hold and rock her to sleep. Now that she's six months, she will often wake up when we put her in her crib, but she knows her crib = sleep so she relaxes back down and falls asleep quickly. Hoping to avoid sleep training!