Help with sleep...

Ok ladies I am an awful mommy and allowed myself to rock my wonderful son to sleep when he was a baby every night, I was such a good mommy. Now I hate that good mommy and I want to beat her butt, cause I am so sick of rocking that brat I can't stand it. And he's only 6 months old! I want to finally be able to lay him down and not have to go back in or pick him back up to get him to go back to sleep. Please any advice ladies, we have bedtime routine some what lol (we basically do the samething every night). So ladies what do you suggest to help me get my brat I mean my wonderful adorable son to sleep??? I'll read any book, and try anything. Can't really do the Cry it out thing because we live in an apartment and my dear boy has some serious lungs. But heck if it works I'll try it. So any advice and help would be totally AWESOME! Or if you can direct me in any directions! Thanks ladies... ( I didn't mean brat in a mean way, just out of frustration, so no need to correct me or any of that thanks)

Try a mobile or something to distract him while hes in his crib.. Then maybe he wont notice that youre not there, get tired, and go to sleep.

try a bath, or a massage every night. Do the same thing every night...you can try the routine I have...

My daughter gets a bath every OTHER night (only because she has exzema) at 8:15pm. At 8:30, she's out of the tub, and I give her a massage with baby lotion (you can try the bedtime lotion, but I personally don't find it to work better than any other baby lotion). Then I get her jammies on and she gets oatmeal cereal, and a bottle. She says good night to daddy, and we go into her room and sit on her rocking chair and read a story. After the story, I give her a hug and a kiss and tell her to have a good sleep and that I love her and I'll see her in the morning. I turn off the lights and turn on her humidifier (cuz in the winter its very dry here in calgary). I put her down in her crib and give her her soother and a receiving blanket to cuddle (cuz she likes to pull it over her face, so a recieving blanket wont suffocate her). I also have an ocean wonders aquarium thing attatched to her crib that lights up and plays music and has fish float around. She loves it...if she is not too tired when she is in her crib, she'll lay there and watch it until she falls asleep.

Now, I don't know if this will work for you...and I can guarentee that if it will work, it will most likely take a while (probably a month or longer) because your son is 6 months old and has been allowed to fall asleep while in your arms for this long. You can try it...but it may not work.

I have also heard of a 3 night rule. That is when you do your regular routine, and when it is time for your sons bedtime, put him in his crib, and leave. He may cry...but you need to let him. Appartently if you do this for 3 days IN A ROW it should work...or at least get better after 3 days. But you need to do this for 3 days IN A ROW.

There is a book someone on here told me about. I think it's caaled crying it out. And 6 months is about the time to start. I wouldn't woory about neighbors. Just remember I refused to let my daughter cry it out she is 5 and has a hard time going to sleep without tv.

I'm not sure how well it will work now, because we started with Vince when he was three weeks old. We have our routine, change him, feed him, etc, and then we lay him in bed and read him a book. Then we turn on his womb sounds bear and leave. If he started to cry, one of us would go in, and without getting him out of bed, comfort him. I usually stroked his chest, and hushed him. If it went on for more than a couple of minutes I'd pick him up, but usually it didn't. If need be, I'd stay in there with him until he fell asleep. But it started teaching him to fall asleep in his own bed. We never let him cry. We'd go to him as soon as he started, so that he didn't feel abandoned or alone since we started so early. Now, most nights, we go through our routine, and he puts himself to sleep in a matter of minutes. He's currently five months old. So you might start by putting him down and staying with him until he falls asleep if he'll let you.