Lord, give me strength ...

ashawee127

I'm trying a new method (for us) for getting DD to sleep ...

It's basically a modified CIO ... more like fuss it out (FIO) ...
I put her down in her crib full, dry and really tired.  It worked REALLY well for both nap and bedtime yesterday.  I turn her monitors off and set a ten minute timer and if she's still fussing then I'll reassess the situation.  Fortunately yesterday we never made it to the ten minute mark.  I've been so adamantly against CIO, but we're getting to the point where nap/bedtime has been so stressful we had to try something different.

I'm hoping this works.  *sigh*

satreece

Hugs   I hope you have success and never have to re-assess the situation.  Goodness knows you both need your sleep!

Genevieved

We pretty much had to let DD CIO to go to sleep at night and her sleep got so much better.  We tried everything else (NCSS) and it worked for a little while but it kept taking longer and longer for us to get her to sleep. soon it got to the point where we were trying to put her to sleep for an hour and she would sit up and want to play with us.  If we did get her to sleep after an hour of trying to put her to sleep she would wake up often during the night like every two hours.

good luck i know it isn't easy, we were also against CIO but no one was getting sleep.

CeltiCutie

It's ok. I had to do similar with Addison to get her to sleep. I never let her "cry" but she would fuss a bit. If she was still fussing after a bit I'd go get her and/or try to rock her or something. Sometimes I waited another 30 min and tried again. It def worked for us and now she is a champion napper/sleeper. She has her routine down and now will even tell you she is tired and take your hand to take her up to her crib. I really hope it works for you! ((hugs))

papagena

I hope it continues to work for you!!