These two always nurse before they go to sleep. It’s our nightly routine… bath, eat, sleep. Usually, however, they conk out and that’s it until they get hungry, so I oh so gently put them in their bed… trying very hard not to wake them as I move them.
This night, however, both woke up as I laid them down, so I decided to leave them and see what happens.
I turned the lights off, turned their lullaby music on and just waited. And waited, and waited and waited.
They fell asleep on their own! No crying, no whining, no needing to nurse back to sleep. Won’t happen tomorrow, but even just once is a good start!