Time to fall asleep?

[kal]

We've been doing sleep training (pupd) for about 3 weeks or so, the first week went well but then we went backwards alittle and had to sort of start over last week but after a week she finally caught on. Two nights last week she feel sleep without any crying on her own, over this weekend she cried/fussed for 30-40 min but were sticking with it and hoping as time goes on she'll start sleeping without any crying.

My question is do you always put your LO to bed at a set amount of time before you plan for them to fall sleep? For example, if I want my DD to be asleep by 7pm I've been putting her in the crib at 630pm to give her a chance to play or whatever and fall alseep, it seems like it takes her about 30 min or so. Is this what I should be doing? If she starts going right to sleep on her own without the crying should I just start putting her in the crib at 7pm or do you always put them in earlier regardless? Do you do the same for naps?     

 

[~*Nicole*~]

I have always tried to put DD to bed as close to her falling asleep time as possible. Within 4 or 10 minutes. I always felt like if it took a longer time she was UT or OT. BUT since you are working on the going to sleep independently thing....right now your lo might be fighting it and your A time could be correct but you won't know until she starts to fall asleep more easily. Now that DD is a good independent sleeper, when she has trouble falling asleep I can usually figure out if it's b/c she is OT, UT, or not feeling well based on what has happened with the rest of the day.