If you did CIO during the night come in please

ladymantha

DS#2 goes down fine at night, but he wakes up once around 3ish and wants a bottle before going back to sleep.  I know he isn't hungry b/c he has no interest in bottles during the day, sometimes will only eat a couple of oz when he wakes, etc.  DS#1 used to do the same thing so we did CIO with him around 12 months.  I'm ready to do this again, but I can't remember if we just let him cry, went in to soothe him with no bottle, took a sippy, or what.  What did everyone else do?  I remember it only took a few nights to get #1 to STTN when we did this and I'm hoping for the same results this time around.

Amanda&Chris

I did Ferber where you go in at increasing intervals--5 min., 7 min., 10 min. and then keep going in at 10 min.  Just tell him it's time to go to sleep and leave.

The next night you do slightly longer intervals, but do the same thing.

SumnerBride

Amanda&Chris:

I did Ferber where you go in at increasing intervals--5 min., 7 min., 10 min. and then keep going in at 10 min.  Just tell him it's time to go to sleep and leave.

The next night you do slightly longer intervals, but do the same thing.

Yep, this exactly.

amiamish

Amanda&Chris:

I did Ferber where you go in at increasing intervals--5 min., 7 min., 10 min. and then keep going in at 10 min.  Just tell him it's time to go to sleep and leave.

The next night you do slightly longer intervals, but do the same thing.

That's what we did, except I only said something the first time I went in and I would lay him back down then walk out. Oh and we started at 3min, not 5.

Ciarrai

Ok, I'm coming into this a little late, but we did straight CIO with both girls to get them to STTN.  DD#1 started STTN at 13 weeks and then stopped at about 7 months for a number of reasons.  It was driving me nuts.  I asked the pedi about it and he said to let her CIO.  I said, "but she's hungry."  He said that of course she was hungry.  She's hungry b/c she wasn't eating enough during the day because she was too distracted and wasn't hungry enough during the day.  It's cycle that you just have to break.  Made sense to me.  He told us to turn off our monitor (horrifying, right?) and just let her cry.  He also said that going in there would just make it worse.  Long story short, he was right.  When we finally bit the bullet and just did it, it took about 3 nights of her screaming - less each night.  By day 4, she was STTN like a champ, eating well during the day and a much happier baby (with a much happier mommy).  We did the same thing with DD#2 at about 7 months.  She was more stubborn, but it didn't take much longer than 3 or 4 days.  It was harder b/c she shares a room with DD#1, but DD#1 learned to sleep through her crying anyway.