what "stage" of sleep do u put ur LO down in??

yssej7

REM or Deep sleep? lately I have been standing and swaying my DD to sleep and waiting untill shes in the deep sleep to put her down so I dont wake her when I put her down but that can take anywhere from 25-1 1/2hr.. Last night I put her down in the REM stage and she was kinda wiggling around and making some noise but eventually fell asleep.. I want to put her down in the REM stage and have her soothe herself to sleep if she wakes up but I'm scared if she fully wakes up it will be another 40min. process to get her back to sleep..

If you put your little one down In the REM stage of sleep how do you smoothly do that with out making bed time a even longer process? what do you do if they start to wake up?