Anyone do CIO?

Futuremrssoll

I am struggling with Elijah lately waking up at like 4 and 5am and not going back to sleep in his crib and only sleepig if he is held on me or sleeping next to me in our bed. ?He is not napping well either. ?The last two nights I go in to console him when he first cries to help him back to sleep, then let him back into the crib where he wakes up and starts to scream, so I have let him go for 20 mins, then pick him up again, then when hes sleeping lay him back down, and he has gotten up again and let him cry again for 20 minutes. ?This morning he would only sleep on me which i would not let him so we have been up since 5:15am. ?Any advice?

Mrs.McJeep

I have no advice, because I'm in the same boat, only letting him CIO would mean waking up my angel sleeper!

Luke is up at 5 every morning, not hungry just awake.  I end up bringing him in to bed w/ me and he falls right back to sleep.

Some things I did when he was getting up at 3...I slept with the pad we put under his head (he's a puker...so we have a mat that goes under his head to save me from changing sheets every day) anyways...sleeping with it, it got my scent and he slept longer with that.

Are you swaddling him?  If not definitely try that.

GBL77

Let me preface by saying that every baby ...and Mom are all different. That being said, When DS was about 7.5 months old is when I started...what I did the first try was the 5, 10 15...minute routine...which in my opinion was pure torture for both me and Cameron...so I stopped and waited about a week to get over that and try again.  The second time I tried it during a nap to see what would happen if I just let him cry, so I was not losing sleep nor did I have to sit in silence and hear him whale...this was the best thing I ever did.  He cried for maybe about 25 minutes and then fell asleep...I just figured it was because he was soooooo tired.  I tried it again at bed time and he cried for about 10 minutes and fell asleep and slept all night, the second night was the same and all the naps were as well...I have never had a problem since.  Good Luck, I know this is not easy...but like many mom have told me and I can now say...it was the best thing I have EVER done!!!

rlthomas7

We did Ferber. If you want to do this, you really must get the book from the library and at least read the progressive waiting section because it truly explains everything - not just the how, but the why, which is important in that second hour of screaming.

The first night was torture. The second night wasn't horrible and the third night he slept straight through. He regressed a bit around 7 months, so we had to do it again, but it has totally worked.

That said, we modified it a bit. We put him down sleeping and we don't go in anymore to reassure him since he gets more worked up if he sees us and we leave than he does to just be left alone.

 

Futuremrssoll

much better! Not to jinx anything, but last night Elijah finally slept through the night again! ?He cried since tuesday each night at like 4am, but I was finally able to break that! ?Thursday night we let him cry for like 45 minutes and he put himself to sleep. ?And, yesterday, for his morning nap, I let him cry for about an hour, then he slept. last night he slept through the night with no issues, and then this morning for his morning nap, only cried about 10 min before falling asleep! ?Hopefully this is a start of him being a better sleeper. ?He was then got all out of sorts. ?Okay, he is stuck in a chair, haha, i better go get him!