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Ending co-sleeping

sapphiremom13sapphiremom13 member
in August 2012 Moms
I originally started because after swaddling, it was the ONLY way I was getting any sleep. But, it's just not working for me anymore. Any advice as to how to stop?
I know I don't post too much here, but I did do an intro a few months back- DS was born in the ambulance, if that rings a bell.
Any advice? TIA!
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  • piphigirlpiphigirl member
    From what I remember, the Tracy Hogg books have some good ideas for transitioning. She is not a CIO advocate and suggests staying with the child at first and gradually transitioning our of her room. Her books are called Secrets of the Baby Whisperer and The Baby Wisperer Solves All Your Problems.
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  • JayandEmmJayandEmm member
    I got ds out at 9 months old, because that's when he was ready. We did sleep lady shuffle and it worked out awesomely. I put him in his pnp and laid in the floor by him so he could see me, over the course of a week and a half, I gradually moved closer to the door. I still can't just put him down and shut the door, because he starts screaming, but I can now stand at the door and tell him to go to sleep, and he'll roll over and go to sleep. I usually stand there for a few minutes and shut the door quietly.

    We started bedsharing when he was 2 months old because he refused to sleep for more than a few minutes any other way. I have an extremely "spirited" child, so if I can get him to sleep on his own, anyone can.
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  • sapphiremom13sapphiremom13 member
    @JayandEmm- tell me a little more. You give me great hope !! So, you put him in awake? Did he scream at first? What about nighttime wakes? Same thing? Do you have a crib soother or anything like that to help distract him?
    And @piphigirl- I will look into baby whisperer as well. I think I actually have both from DD.
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    sapphiremom13 said:

    @JayandEmm- tell me a little more. You give me great hope !! So, you put him in awake? Did he scream at first? What about nighttime wakes? Same thing? Do you have a crib soother or anything like that to help distract him?
    And @piphigirl- I will look into baby whisperer as well. I think I actually have both from DD.

    I put him down awake, and he fussed/cried for 15 minutes the first couple of nights, but no screaming. When he woke up and i knew it wasn't from thirst or hunger, I got back in the same position and told him to go back to sleep. I only had to do that for the first few nights though, after a while he stopped waking prematurely.

    He has a white noise machine, a lovey, and a pacifier.

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  • bigbootyjudibigbootyjudi member
    We stopped at 6 months. We moved him into his own room and did the crib transition at the same time we sleep trained. It was the smartest thing I ever did; both at the same time. He was over it in a few days and has slept only in his crib for sleep since then...in his own bedroom.
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  • twoitalianstwoitalians member
    We co slept from the beginning and bed shared from 4-8 months. At 8 months, DS was just too mobile at night for any of us to get sleep. At 8 months we started putting him in the crib for naps and bedtime, but we were still rocking him for half an hour to get him to sleep. Then he started waking up as soon as we set him down and the whole rocking process just started all over. We did extinction CIO because that is what worked. It happened to coincide with the crib transition though maybe for a week or so DS was sleeping in the crib before then. We just had to make the move cold turkey, no gradual process.
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