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Reality Please!?

JJbird86JJbird86 member
in April 2012 Moms

Who's baby is actually sleeping through the night?  We have been having the WORST time lately.  DD and I share a room, and I was partly co-sleeping rather happily, but I'm starting to lose my mind because she relies on me to put her back to sleep when she wakes up in the middle of the night-which is usally 4 times.

Is sleeping through the night really a myth?  Or should I let the kid cry it out like everyone tells me to.

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  • KatFCoKatFCo member
    Have you read The No-Cry Sleep Solution? We were trying to do it before DS got sick and it seemed to be working. It doesn't work as quickly as CIO, but I like it better.
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  • JJbird86JJbird86 member

    No...what's that?  Should I google it?

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  • andricjlandricjl
    DD has been sleeping through the night since 4.5mo. We did the sleep easy solution which is a modified CIO method.

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  • KatFCoKatFCo member
    imageJJbird86:

    No...what's that?  Should I google it?

    There are several stages, involving helping them learn not to need to suck to sleep and putting them in bed drowsy, then a little more awake.

    It takes time and I can't say for sure it works, but I prefer the idea of it to CIO.

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  • sheastersheaster member
    My LO started doing the same thing. Like you, he and I were bed sharing, but then it got to the point where he depended on me to get him back to sleep. So, Tuesday we started sleep training. Our dr suggested Ferber. I liked the idea of not CIO, but LO just become more upset when I would check in on him. So, I started talking to him through the baby monitor every so often. He cried 30 min the first night and has gradually cried less each night. He was asleep in 5 min tonight and really didn't get to upset either, just whimpered a little. He has slept through the night each night too. I LOVED rocking him and bed sharing until he started fighting me when I would would rock and woke frequently at night. So now I'll rock a little bit just to get snuggles with him and then lay him down.
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  • sharrison88sharrison88
    We did a modified CIO allowing her to put herself to sleep. We do go get her if she wakes up MOTN and requires a feeding. Normally I can tell from her cry. On a normal night she goes to be around 7 and wakes up between 2 and 3. Technically, she's sleeping through the night, but my broken sleep schedule does take a toll.
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  • thechickencoopthechickencoop member

    We did Sleep Easy also at about 6 months and DS was STTN (from 8 to 6:30-7) for like 2 months.  Then he got a cold and it's been downhill from there.  After the cold was the holidays which threw us off completely and over the last week he cut his first tooth!  So he's been up 3 to 4 times a night for the last like, month.  Yawn.  But last night he only woke up once at 4, then for the day at 7 so hopefully we keep getting better! 

    Don't worry, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.  :)

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  • LolaBelle515LolaBelle515 member
    LO sleeps through unless he is sick. We found a crib soother very very helpful...press it when your LO wakes. Pretty quickly LO will learn how to turn it on and go back to sleep alone. Hope it works for you!
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  • CJPowersCJPowers member
    DD goes to sleep between 7-8 and wakes up between 3-4 to nurse. I put her back down and she wakes up between 7-8. (However, this might just be a fluke or a miracle, but for the past 3 night she has not woken up between 3-4 and has slept straight through.) I do hear her on the monitor a few times during the night but we never go in and she always is fine and goes back to bed. In my opinion when you have LO in your room or your bed you are going to get less sleep because their every move will wake you up. Once you move them out you will start to sleep better and you won't even wake up when they do. 
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  • SteelCity44SteelCity44 member

    We're still not even close to STTN. We're getting him to fall asleep on his own using CIO, but he still gets up every 3-4 hours to nurse. That's our next challenge to tackle. I planned to do a modified CIO, but he gets hysterical if he can see us when he's upset. The few times we've tried to pat and shush, he only gets more hysterical, and the ONLY thing that will calm him at that point is nursing.

    DH and I both work, so the responsibility falls on both of us at night. When DS was waking before the 3 hour mark, I made DH go get him. DH wasn't a fan, because he didn't understand why I couldn't just nurse at 2.5 hours. Eventually, DS stopped waking before the 3 hour mark. I think we're going to go back to that schedule, except I won't nurse until the 3.5 hour mark in hopes to gradually break this habit we've formed.

    Good luck with whatever you decide. It's not an easy decision at all. But you are also not alone. 

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  • smithwilson1219smithwilson1219 member
    We have had the same problem! D's was waking every 1-2 hours. We cosleep but have been transitioning to the crib. After talking to his pediatrician we decided to try CIO. I always get him to sleep before putting him in the crib though I hear not to do that but any who.. The first night he woke up an hour later, right on schedule, and cried for 15 mins. It was hard but the pediatrician said his cried for an hr the first night so it was better than I expected. And he fell back asleep, this was at midnight, and woke up at six, which by then he was hungry so I pulled him into bed with me and we slept until 9 or so.. Last night' the second night, he cried for maybe two mins at 1030, he went down at 9. He woke at midnight so fed him 3 oz I pumped and put him back down and he woke at six. Tonight im going to start the bedtime routine at the usual nineish so he will sleep later tomorrow. I hate having to get up like 30 mins before the alarm lol especially on a MMonday. BTW I tried to fix the auto corrects sry if there's more!
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  • liz.eckelliz.eckel
    we are in the same boat as OP. we are, however, working it out with "no cry sleep solution".. i would call it NOTHING like CIO. she is a co-sleeper that goes over methods to get baby into a crib, out of you room, crib in the room, bed in the nursery... LOTS of solutions! i think it would be perfect for you!!
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