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Ferber success stories

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Please share your success with Ferber. How many days until you saw improvement.
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  • hollyaworthhollyaworth
    Would love to see what others say. I am too afraid to even try. I hate it when LO cries.
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  • Dreamsicle23Dreamsicle23 member
    Maybe post on 6-9 or 9-12.  There are more who have sleep trained on the older age boards (and they can say whether it worked long-term or not).
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  • doremi29doremi29 member

    Sorry this is soooo long! I will start by saying that we waited until this past week because he would not have been ready prior to that and also, I hate hearing my DS cry.  I was hesitant but also ridiculously tired (he was waking hourly, needing to be rocked to sleep).  I felt like I couldn't focus at work and the final straw way my bff rear-ended someone because she fell asleep at the wheel....everyone was fine but it made me realize that we needed more sleep!  Am I trying to justify letting DS CIO?- yes- it's never fun to hear your LO cry!

    Okay, so we started last Sunday.  He seemed over the 2nd tooth he had recently cut and was also over a cold that had seemed to last forever.  We did a modified Ferber.  We were basically aiming to get a big first stretch so we said that we would not give him a bottle until 1am.  He goes down at 6:30pm.  The first night he woke at 10pm.  We modified the time table and went in after 3 minutes, then 5, then 7.  He stopped crying at the 7 minute mark but it was more from my soothing when I went in than him actually "self-soothing". 

    Night 2- He woke at 1:15, we gave him a bottle.  He woke at 3am.  This time we decided we'd do 5-7-10.  I went in after 5 minutes, soothed him, walked out and he cried for about 2 more minutes before he self-soothed.  

    Night 3- he woke for a bottle at 1am and then slept the rest of the night! We continued this way for the remainder of the week.

    Last night was night 7 and it was actually awful but then today he's showing all the signs that he's getting another tooth, so I realize times like this will be tough. 

    Tonight- he cried 45 minutes after I put him down.  It lasted literally 2 minutes and he was asleep again.  Overall I'd say it has worked great for us. 

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  • javorka.samantha@gmail.comjavorka.samantha@gmail.com

    Here's ours:

    https://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/43470744.aspx

    Ours was probably a bit unusual, but hopefully it helps you out!  I think the key with our LO was that he was sooo ready.

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  • rhythmicgoldfishrhythmicgoldfish
    you arent supposed to ferber or CIO or any other sleep training method until AFTER 6 MONTHS https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/sleep-10/newborns
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  • Ohio_WeddingOhio_Wedding

    imagerhythmicgoldfish:
    you arent supposed to ferber or CIO or any other sleep training method until AFTER 6 MONTHS https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/sleep-10/newborns

     

    you do what is best for your baby with advice from your personal pediatrician given your particular situation.  thanks for not answering my question, though, and linking me to a generic website i could've found on my own.

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