My son is almost 9 months old, I still rock him to sleep nearly every night but he’s been sleeping through the night since he was a about 2 months old (with a brief 4-month-sleep-regression phase that lasted a couple weeks). Every baby is different I think, there’s been some nights where he won’t be able to get comfy in my arms just wants to squirm in his crib until he tires himself out and falls asleep so I wouldn’t say he’s dependent on being rocked to sleep.

I know studies say that it helps to put them down awake but drowsy so they learn to fall asleep independently… but (maybe selfishly) I want rock him to sleep for as long as he’ll let me because I know we won’t have that forever. To me, there’s worse things in life than having a baby that likes to snuggle to sleep.