Curious - What age to start crying it out?

JQuin10 · September 2010

Just wondering what age you will be letting your LO cry it out?

For how long will you let lo cry before you calm them down?

APRILMW · September 2010

I don't have the strength to do this. It breaks my heart to hear my LO cry. Especially since there is no in between cry for her. She goes from 0-60 with her happy to mad!

MNgirl326 · September 2010

never. I have found other ways to sleep train LO so I don't have to use CIO

Kim&Doug · September 2010

I think most people on here would think that at no age should it be done. However, I do think it's acceptable to let a baby who has woken up in the middle of the night that had been STTN for a while to see if he/she will go back to sleep on their own within a few minutes and isn't fully crying. I can tell when my baby is still asleep but cranking a little bit. I can tell if he's hungry and if he was I would feed him. My son has been STTN since 6 weeks. Just the last few days, he's been sort of crying a bit due to teething probably. He put himself back to sleep the first night, but last night he had rolled onto his tummy and wasn't happy. I went in and rolled him back over and he fell back to sleep. I couldn't ever let my baby get worked up and exhaust himself to sleep.

JKB1986 · September 2010

I'm reading the Dr. Ferber book right now. Once I finish we will be Ferberizing LO. I expect he will be about 6.5 months. We will follow the schedule in his book, I think its 3, 5, 7, 10 the first night. I may cut a minute out of each because I HATE hearing him cry.

Cytina · September 2010

I would not do any version of CIO prior to 6 months of age. I think DS1 was about 6 or 7 months old when we started letting him fuss for a few minutes before rushing in and gradually increased the time between going in, if needed, to soothe. That's not really CIO I know, but probably more of a Ferber type thing. To be honest, I didn't read any books or anything - I called my friends who were moms and got their advice. I've been truly blessed with 2 good sleepers.