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Has the "no cry sleep solution" worked for you? Especially BF moms

eowynmneowynmn
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I bought it and we are going to try it. I can hope...
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Re: Has the "no cry sleep solution" worked for you? Especially BF moms

  • CalifloridaCaliflorida member
    keep me posted. i need to try something but i'm waiting till after the holiday. gl!
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  • eowynmneowynmn

    Gah! Well that's not a helpful reply. I was hoping you were going to say "Yes, the NCSS was AWESOME!"

    BAH! :P :)

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  • lanie26lanie26 member
    No. Helped for naps for sure. They went from 10/20 minutes to 1 hour, but no, didn't help with actual sleep at all. I found it weird that she has no medical training at all. Kind of like Ezzo in that, only not as psycho. I found it patronizing in parts too. I hate patronizing reading.
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  • eowynmneowynmn

    imagelanie26:
    No. Helped for naps for sure. They went from 10/20 minutes to 1 hour, but no, didn't help with actual sleep at all. I found it weird that she has no medical training at all. Kind of like Ezzo in that, only not as psycho. I found it patronizing in parts too. I hate patronizing reading.

     

    Ditto on the weird she has no training. Hell in 2 years I will be more qualified to write a book (hope.) So far I've read through just the few steps, but I found it weird that her only training for writing her book was her 4 kids.  I can give it a try though.  oliver takes great naps.. like freakin 4 naps a day, but then he only sleeps 8-9 hours total at night and wakes up at least 5 times a night.  I absolutely will not CIO so I'm looking for SOMETHING. ya know?

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  • Heidi Lanigan-PotterHeidi Lanigan-Potter

    I have seen improvement, but you really have to think "baby steps".  It takes time and patience and you will see progress, it's just not the same "instant gratification" that you get with Ferber or other CIO methods.

     I started with almost letting him fall asleep nursing (from letting him do it all the time) and have progressed from there.  We also let him fuss a little if we know he's tired and being in the room with him will only make it worse, but we never let him cry.  Now he falls asleep most nights all on his own (typically without fussing).  He actually slept 5 straight ours last night for DH (while I was at work, figures.) and had been getting up every 1-2 hours just a few weeks ago.  Typically he now wakes every 2-3 hours, which is still much better than before.  We also bought a crib soother, which really helps transition him to sleep as well.  He loves it!

    Napping is still a bit of a struggle, but we are making some progress there too.  We were also working on transitioning from napping in the swing to the crib, which I think was very hard for him, so that complicated things.

    Overall, he's getting better at self soothing and putting himself to sleep and I'm better rested, which has given me more energy to be an even better mom.  I know he'll get back to STTN someday, that's my hope anyway!

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  • lanie26lanie26 member
    Yeah we did CIO after getting up every half hour through the night (we don't cosleep so I had to go down the hall every 1/2 hour and I literally started seeing and hearing things). I wanted to kill myself. It was the worst experience of my life. I hated her, she hated me. I swore to every one and every thing that I'd never let her cry. But thank god thank GOD I did it. I now know all her different cries. If she cries, I respond, but she can put herself back to sleep. It's not for everyone but it saved us. And the difference in her is unreal.
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  • jessicasuzannjessicasuzann

    My experience was very similar to Lanie's. I really, really wanted NCSS to work, so I tried for about 6 weeks. I swear, she slept worse at night...or maybe it just felt worse because I was working so hard an trying to make it better, and it wasn't happening.

    So we also did CIO, and I am so very glad we did. It took about 4 or 5 days till she went to sleep w/o tears, and she'd wake 1-2 times a night. About 4 weeks later she was STTN reliably.  She is like a new baby; I am like a new woman. I have no regrets at all.

    That said, I am glad I read and tried NCSS, because had I not, I may have always regretted "just letting her CIO." I feel now like I gave other methods a fighting chance, but that CIO met dd's need to learn to self-sooth. I hope that makes sense....

    Anyhow, good luck in whatever you choose!

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  • jessicasuzannjessicasuzann
    Also--DD was a week shy of 6 months when I started NCSS, and 7+ months when I did CIO.
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  • Dobie_MamaDobie_Mama
    Yes and no.  It helped DD go down easier at night and nap better but we are still pretty inconsistent with night sleeping.  She will sleep like a rock star for a month, then not so much.
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  • jessicasuzannjessicasuzann
    Sorry--last thing, I promise: I breastfeed, too. :-)
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  • amwoosleyamwoosley
    We started this when dd was just over 6 months old. DD was still waking up to eat in the middle of the night and waking up several times in addition. Since we started DD has gotten better. She is no longer waking up to eat in the middle of the night. And in the last week she has started having 6 hour blocks of sleep (she'll be 8 months next weekend). It's still a work in progress, but it is working. It just takes time.
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  • amwoosleyamwoosley
    Oh, I should have added that I breastfeed.
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  • Heidi Lanigan-PotterHeidi Lanigan-Potter
    P.S.  Ollie is looking pretty damn cute these days himself.
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  • joecubedjoecubed member
    No.  We started trying to do NCSS when DS was about 4 months.  After a month, we switched to using the Baby Whisperer, which worked for about a month.  I don't know how much you've seen of what I posted, but after an ear infection, teething, two colds, and RSV, baby whisperer didn't work anymore.  which is why we switched to ferber - he was waking every 45 minutes, even cosleeping, and there were nights that he was inconsolable for an hour or so.  as much as I didn't want him to cry, I knew he needed his sleep - and nothing that we were doing was helping him, you know?
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  • Mrs.tlcSMrs.tlcS member

    I had no luck whatsoever with NCSS.  She cried more with this than she did with Ferber.

    And, like lanie, the difference in DD after Ferber is absolutely incredible.  Like lanie, I was at the end of my rope, and (I don't know if it ever got this far with lanie or not) I was afraid I would hurt DD or hurt myself.  

    Good luck.

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