Baby needs close contact to sleep

Anyone else have a baby that needs physical contact to sleep? Other than in the car or pram all of his naps are contact naps. We do a bedtime routine and cuddle him to sleep before transferring him to his cot. Any night wakeups he needs stroking or cuddling to re-settle and usually ends up in us co-sleeping from the early hours of the morning. My husband and I are fine with all of this and have no desire to sleep train in a way that involves letting him cry but I do feel like people can be judgemental. I firmly believe this is just our baby's temperament and he will eventually grow out of it but family members think we are being soft and are creating problems with his sleeping habits. My husbands sister seems to have babies that just automatically sleep well independently from the offset but that was never our experience. Just wondered if anyone else in the same boat and how they plan to move forward with their baby's sleep?

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Could’ve written this myself, thankfully nobody has really commented on it but I have no patience for stuff like that tbh. It’s nothing to do with them how you tend to your baby. We also contact nap and cosleep. In the next couple months I’ll be trialling some crib naps in prep for nursery but that’s it.

My baby’s the exact same! People love to comment about it don’t they 🙄 I haven’t thought of a plan yet but I do want to attempt one crib nap a day until he can manage an entire nap in it 🤞🏻

People like to comment and think they know best. I felt really pressure to start sleep training (she falls asleep in our arms then is transferred) as was seeing others who’s baby’s went straight down in their cot but a friend with 3 children and pretty out spoken reminded me that soon they won’t want to be held and to enjoy cuddling my baby. Don’t feel pressured and stressed, do what is best for you are your little 1. You know your baby. They aren’t there at those nap times or bedtimes so easy to pass comment. I do the first to naps in the cot but she falls asleep on my then after about 10min I transfer. X

My baby girl contact naps with me unless in pram or car too and I breastfeed her and she usually goes off to sleep on me after a feed at bedtime and I then transfer her into the next to me. Sometimes I have to settler her by stroking face too. I don’t think I’ve ever just put her down and let her cry to sleep .. again just what works x

Every baby is different and I wouldn’t let anyone judge you for what works best for you. My little boy will only contact nap / sleep in car / sleep in pram but will go down at night himself in his next to me and sleep through. I’ve had a few people say put him down for day time naps and I bite back and just explain no, this works for us. Why would you have them upset for no reason?

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