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No real experience but I'd say ride it out. We did night and nap train but when LO got a cold during night training we agreed we'd never make her CIO more than 15 min while sick (5 and 10 min check). Those were early days of night training so that wasn't that long and we really just wanted to give her a chance to fall asleep on her own. At this point now that she almost always goes down without crying, if she was sick or teething and crying I think I'd just do what she needed for comfort. Down side is that might mean training again after sickness... but when she is in actual pain/discomfort I don't know that I could do CIO

@Tanjowen: it is so sad Are you able to rock him? When my LO was having a lot of nap trouble (before we trained) I ended up just holing her for every nap and she would take 1.5-2 hr naps that way. I read like 14 books in november... lol

We did CIO and though she's been putting herself to sleep for months if she's really sick I usually only wait about 10 minutes and then I'll rock her. I also try to give her Motrin at bed (sometimes nap) times just so I know I've done all I can to try and help her rest on her own. I held her for an entire nap today because she has a stuffy nose and a cough. I basically covered her in Vicks, gave her Motrin and put her mattress on an incline before bed so that I could help her sleep hee best but she still needed me to rock her for about 5 minutes first.

My LO doesn't like to be held to sleep, but if he's sick or teething and wakes from a nap early / has trouble going down I will go in and rub his back til he drops off. He's generally a really good napper and I ALWAYS worry about creating bad habits by helping him go to sleep, but so far he always goes completely back to normal once he's over whatever is bothering him. Hope your LO feels better soon!