if you don't/won't do CIO, how do you get your baby to sleep?

MrsV092207 · February 2010

I think I am learning something about myself - that I haaaaate listening to her cry (and she knows it). It just stresses me out. My family is kind of pressuring me to let her cry more but I just can't do it, and I want to do what's right for my family. I just don't know how to put her to sleep without her crying hysterically.

Mabzie · February 2010

I don't use the CIO method. Bath, bottle and put her down with her paci. I want to get her sleep without the help of a paci but that will take time.

JennifernKevin4ever · February 2010

I just wrap him in a blanket put a binky in his mouth and rock him to sleep. I don't think I could ever let him CIO. I hate hearing him cry. It breaks my heart. So I don't think I could. I do want to try to find away to get him to sleep on his own. Right now I don't mind helping him fall asleep.

SusieQ1982 · February 2010

We either rock him or hold him and use his soother, then lay him down in his bed.

We've also been able to watch for tired signs and lay him down in the PnP with soother and sit with him until he falls asleep.

We do not CIO and we have no plans to.

smilelari · February 2010

swaddle, bottle, paci/rock

lissa5119 · February 2010

We co-sleep, so she pretty much just falls asleep with a boob in her mouth! I have tried all different things, but that is the most stress free and therefore the best for us : )

HisMrs07 · February 2010

I usually time her last feeding around 8 or so when she gets sleepy and she falls asleep after eating but if she doesn't dh holds her and does the "elevator" ( pretty much the same thing as a squat) for about 5 min or so and she is asleep. I refuse to CIO, can't handle her crying and I don't think its necessary. I want to start trying other methods of putting her down in her crib but I'm not in a huge hurry since we don't mind putting her down this way for now.

arob2009 · February 2010

usually, we can put him down in his crib when he is drowsy but awake and he will be conked out. However, lately, its been getting more difficult (I think its the separation anxiety). The past 2 nights I let him fuss/cry for 5 minutes before I went in to give him his paci back & put my hand on his chest. He goes right to sleep. I had to close the door to not hear him cry, and it was really really hard, but giving myself the time limit helps.

KatieTheMagnificent · February 2010

Any way possible.

Calloway would just go to sleep on his own. I'd lay him down and he'd be out.

Ari likes to be rocked or nursed to sleep. We bedshare, it's not a big deal for us.

claudia235 · February 2010

I don't do CIO. She's used to her routine: bath, bottle, crib. She's drowsy after finishing her last bottle of the day, and I put her in crib. She tends to knock out for the night by herself.

Sticky41284 · February 2010

claudia235:
I don't do CIO. She's used to her routine: bath, bottle, crib. She's drowsy after finishing her last bottle of the day, and I put her in crib. She tends to knock out for the night by herself.

This, exactly. And we watch for tired cues and that's our sign to start the bath.

rissainthesky* · February 2010

let her nurse herself to sleep, and have her sleep on me until she is dead to the world.

sucks and doesnt always work, but I wont CIO. then again, my DD is younger than yours.

jessloveschase08 · February 2010

The woombie is the only thing that works

AutumnBride929 · February 2010

If he cries or is fussy then I rock him to sleep with a paci. If I think he might be hungry then I give him a bottle. If he persists and wants to remain fussy then I just hold him and try to bounce/rock him out in the living room while I'm watching TV so I can be doing something, too, lol. If he remains fussy and boycotts sleep up until the point where I'm going to bed then I bring him to bed with me.

If he remains fussy in bed then I'm sleep-deprived the next day. But that hasn't happened in quite some time.

As of the past few days, he has been falling asleep on his own when I lay him down drowsy in his crib with his paci. It's phenomenal.

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