Which sleep training method worked for you?

iteachk · March 2012

No time to research a million methods. H has never STTN, or even for more than two hours straight. The last two weeks she's been up every hour. I'm having problems functioning, and so is DH and even K. Tonight we're going to try SOMETHING.

Which method worked for you?

TIA

law&order · March 2012

We had different sleep problems but we did full extinction for naps. The longest he cried was 35 minutes two times. You didn't ask, but I still nurse at night- once, maybe twice.

The more "gentle" methods did not work for us.

chelsearuthe · March 2012

What gets me the most sleep these days is bringing DS to bed with me. He's waking every 1 - 2 hours (possibly teething). From his bedtime until mine, I nurse/rock/change and put back in crib. And usually the first (sometimes second, depending on my level of sleepiness) night waking after I'm in bed, I just bring him back with me.

However, this has just been survival mode and not really working toward a long-term "solution." Would like to get him in his crib exclusively.

Read the intro to the No-Cry Sleep Solution and I really connected with it. I'll probably buy and try that. Good luck. I'd like to hear people's answers on this too.

Chatterbug6917 · March 2012

We started 10 days ago in his crib alone forthe first time ever( used to sleep in my bed in the nap nanny) we did our own version of Ferber- we let him play It a few times that day and hooked up a soother to the crib( baby Einstein I believe) we did his normal bath book bottle routine and set him in there with his lovey, we waited for him to cry the first full 5 minutes, that was the hardest, then I went in and soothed him, then I waited about 3 minutes the second time, went in and rocked him for 3 minutes, set him down and bam he was sleeping- he woke up 2 times that night the first time I turned his soother back on andthe second time I fed him and he slept 12 hours

it took 3 days of that and now he goes down himself with a little babbling, maybe 30 sec of crying and the. He's good to go, he wakes up once at 530 ish and is back down till 9, he is usually sleeping by 930 so it's at least 11.5 hours which is like heaven for me

kimmyberly26 · March 2012

We did Weissbluth rapid extinction but she was only waking up once a night. We would go to her and she would start babbling to us and giggling. What a goof. It was horrible but it only took one night.

bluejetta · March 2012

We used Ferber at 4 months to help DD learn to fall asleep without rocking/bouncing etc at bedtime and did the same at 5 months for naps. It took about 4 nights for bedtime and a couple weeks for naps and it went as well as possible in terms of the amount of crying. It was emotionally hard but DD is much more rested and without focusing on night waking (DD wakes to nurse 1-3 times a night) it did cut down on night wakings that weren't hunger and we also give DD 10 minutes before we go in to her if she wakes close to when she last ate and that rarely happens and works well when it does.

I plan to use Ferber again for night weaning but not until closer to 9 months if DD hasn't dropped the night feedings (or at least all but one) on her own.

I read Weissbluth's book but I couldn't emotionally handle a full extinction plan but I also couldn't do the other methods that were going to take weeks - we all needed the sleep sooner than that.

amr1218 · March 2012

The SleepEasy Solution. You may not be able to start tonite (I would suggest reading a few key chapters in the book first) but it is totally worth it. We started two weeks ago and wish we had started when LO was much younger. It has worked wonders!

It is a modified CIO approach, though. If that isn't your thing, go with something that works for your family.

DD co-slept with us until we started TSES. Now she goes to bed (by herself in PNP) at 8:00, gets up at 7:00, and takes 3 naps each day (for an hour or more each time). She still wakes up once around 2 am to feed but it is just out of habit and we are weaning her off that now.

Disclaimer - the first night SUCKS!!! and we still expect some bumps in the road - but so far so good!

TotallyNot_Isha · March 2012

I hatehatehate that I did it and that it worked, but Ferber fixed our problems.

Mylittlebee20 · March 2012

We used the Sears method.

reederah · March 2012

We did Ferber. Took us a few rounds of starting and stopping it, but it finally worked. We had DS in the pack and play in our room, but as soon as we moved him into his own crib in the nursery, Ferber finally worked. We also worked really hard to learn his sleep cues so that we weren't putting him down when he was awake or overtired, but a good middle. That's what we do for naps now too.

superchixor · March 2012

CIO worked for us. She was doing good, then went to waking every hour and thought it was a phase.. That lasted 3 weeks and we had enough and let her cry. She has slept through the night every night since then and it's been over a month!

LizS81 · March 2012

We did ferber, he was STTN after 2 nights and napping on schedule after 3 days. We followed the book to a tee, except we use a noise machine. I don't know why people have such an issue with Ferber, I thought it was a very good approach.

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