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Who sleep trained and did it work?
Grace is almost 7 months and she wakes up every hour all night unless we put her in our bed. She always slept through the night before but the last month has been really rough. I've ruled out teething, hunger, wet diaper, etc. We think we need to sleep train but we're just not sure about cry it out. What did you do and did it work?
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Re: Who sleep trained and did it work?
We did some CIO, but not until he was about 9 months. We did the method where you let them CIO for 5 minutes and then check on them, let them go 7 and then check, each time it gets longer, until they fall asleep. Luckily for us, Eli caught on really quickly and we just had to really deal with lots of heart wrenching sobs for a few days.
We never did it in the middle of the night though, only getting him to sleep since he wanted to be rocked to sleep and learned to STTN on his own at about 7.5 months (just occasionally waking up one time a night for a lost paci).
Elijah Matthew - 5/3/07 ~ Adalyn Rosemary - 3/23/11
*Photos by Kacy Cierley*
I'm reading all the books now, (No Cry Sleep Solution, Baby Whisperer, and Ferber) and shockingly enough, I think we're going Feber. It's not heartless as I thought and the book really helps you understand sleep patterns and sleep associations, which is a big problem for us at naptime as she likes to nap in her swing instead of the crib. It's kind of already what we are doing without realizing it.
Baby Whisperer is the pick up put down method which I think would make her more mad than anything else. I haven't gotten through much of No Cry Sleep yet. I just want Maggie to learn how to go to sleep and stay asleep on her own.
We did the Ferber training at 6 months and followed it pretty closely. It was fabulous for us. In less than a week my son went from needing to be rocked to sleep and held (he slept in bed with us until we sleep trained him) to falling asleep on his own in less than 30 minutes and staying asleep in his crib for most of the night.
Ferber sleep training really gets a bad reputation from those who don't understand what it really is. It is NOT crying it out until they conk out on their own. It is *checking and consoling* and it is very healthy for children. The book was easy to understand and pretty straight forward. My son is 2 and a half and a great sleeper.
We are in the middle of using the Ferber method on Leah. She wasn't waking to eat in the middle of the night, but would wake up fussing for her paci, to be turned, etc. all night long. It was wearing on us and even though I was very anti-CIO, it turns out that she actually cries less now than she did before we Ferberized her. I'd read the book and see if it's for you before you try something. CIO isn't recommended until about 6 months (4 months at the earliest) so Grace is old enough.
I would say Leah, on average, to get to sleep at night and for three naps during the day, cries about 7 minutes altogether. So it really isn't like hours of crying or anything awful like that. I think she was ready for it and she actually seems happier when she wakes up after having a good night's rest.
Some other books I read before deciding on Ferber were the Weissbluth book (Happy Baby, Healthy Sleep Habits or something), and the Baby Whisperer. I found the Baby Whisperer had a good method called PU/PD, which is to pick up the baby when she cries in her crib, then lay her down when she stops. Eventually she'll understand you're there for her, but that you aren't going to pick her up and feed her or walk her around, etc. We tried this but it took hours before Leah finally just conked out. So Ferber was the way for us to go.
GL.