Questions from my Friends - Putting themselves to Sleep

  How do I get my Baby to put himself to Sleep?

The key to this is Putting Baby Down Awake!!!
Once you have gone through your bedtime routine, including bath,dress, read and feed,
the baby should be put down awake. If he is asleep he should be jiggled a bit, just enough to open his eyes and see that you are no loger ronkng him off to dreamland.
 If your baby fusses when you lay him down or if he wakes throughout the night, there are a number of ways to help baby back to sleep on his own, including being able to pick him up and rub his back but no matter what techniques you use to settle his cries, he cannot have constant contact from you when he finally dozes off.
 If you are holding, feeding or even rocking your baby to sleep, he will wake expecting you there and when he sees that you are gone he becomes upset and uanble to return to sleep. It would be similar if you fell asleep in your bed and then woke up on the couch. You would be scared and completely unable to fall back asleep, it is the same scenario for baby.