Recommend Your Non-CIO Sleep Solution/Training

WifeofaMarine

We really need to get DS from cosleeping to his own crib, and, though CIO is for some people, I don't think its really for us.?

markles88

No Cry SLeep Solution has a whole section on transitioning the co-sleeper to a crib.

finallyamommy

I loved the no-cry sleep solution.  Like any method, you have to read the book to really get it, but it's a step by step process.  For us, we were trying to get DS to go to sleep on his own and it took about five steps and two months to get there but I'm really happy with her method.  It was the only no-cry solution i found that had a method. 

harborview

We've made some good progress. I just kind of winged it.

Step 1: Crib is not torture chamber. Let's play in there and see how fun it is before nap time!

Step 2: Okay, you're very, very sleepy, mommy is going to gently tip you over so you are lying down. Don't panic! Here is your paci and your lovey. 

This was the hardest step, because he would panic, and I would just keep reinserting the paci and showing him his lovey. After awhile, I started hiding behind the crib so I wouldn't distract him, popping back up to reinsert paci if he started to cry. It took 20 minutes each time, and sometimes, it failed completely, but 60% of the time, he would sleep. Only for 30 or 40 minutes, as opposed to 1.5-2 hours in my arms, but he slept.

Step 3: This is where I lost patience for hiding and waiting and started nursing him to sleep for naps. The difference here is, now he will stay in his crib for the nap and not wake up panicked and screaming 10 minutes later. The naps are stll on the short side, 40 minutes, but I've had a few over an hour. I think this is progress.

Step 4: Going to bed at night in the crib. I just follow the same proceedure as for naps. He wakes up once, maybe twice between bedtime and 10pm, and we are able to get him back to sleep by reinserting the paci, sometimes rocking is necessary. At 10, he really wakes up, and I feed him and bring him in bed with us. And he stays here for the rest of the night. 

Okay, so its a lot of work, and not perfect, but before I did this, I was chained to him while he slept. I not only had to sleep with him but hold him JUST right. I was in bed at night by 6pm. It wasn't working for me! Good luck!

 

Doug'sFiance

"The Baby Whisperer Solves all of your Problems" I love all of her advice from sleep to feeding.

williamcaitlin

The No-Cry Sleep Solution worked great for us. I only made it about halfway through the whole procedure when Lucy started going to sleep in her crib and sleeping for 4-5 hour stretches. Now she goes down at the same time, only wakes up twice, and comes to bed with us around 5 or 6 am.