I swore I didnt want to do CIO or any other version of it but now I am rethinking things....DS is a good sleeper once he is asleep but getting him down is becoming harder and harder.
We used to rock him and in 10 minutes or less he would be out but now he is starting to fuss and fight it..tonight he was arching his back and he is just getting too big for me to be able to hold him through it!
I am reading the No Cry nap/sleep solution now and starting to try their suggestion about rocking him till drowsy and then putitng him down and decreasing the time each night till no more rocking is needed...hope it works! I also follow a lot of the Baby Whisperer advice and took out the Ferber book from the library today......
What sleep training method has worked for you and are you glad you tried it? Im really afraid I wont be able to stick to it!
Re: At what point did you try sleep training? Which method has worked for you?
I wrote a post on sleep here:https://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/29470977.aspx
It still works for us. When we deswaddle in a couple weeks, we will be using CIO.
We tried Ferber just 2 weeks ago (so he was 4 1/2 mo old). It worked great. He was always easy to put to sleep but has trouble STAYING asleep. The first 3 nights were tough.....but then it was WONDERFUL! He very rarely cries at all throughout the night. When he does - we don't mind rocking him for a minute b/c it doesn't mess up the training - he's already trained.
The first night he cried for 45 min (we went in periodically - longer & longer between each). But the following 3-4 nights he never even cried!!!
Can't tell you how happy i am that i have more than a few hours of consecutive sleep. it's also nice knowing once i put him down at 7 or 8pm I have time to myself. Good luck
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Oops. Technical difficulty. I also use Suzy Giordano's method and it does not entail crying. It really works, but you have to be careful to stay on schedule. I was lax last week and shouldn't have been because it set me back.
It doesn't entail any crying at night, just some crying if your LO has a hard time when placed in their crib initially. It gives you a 'tool box' to assist with calming LO, if they have a hard time getting themselves to go to sleep on their own, but it doesn't recommend crying for any more than 3-5 minutes. On night wakings...it is never a cry, the key is actually having the milk ready to go, and getting to LO before they are fulling awake, so it could be compared to a dreamfeed sort of...plus the book is an easy read, can be read cover to cover in less than two hours! GL!