https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 13 May 2026 08:07:13 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347956 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:00:20 +0000 travellingbee 1347956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think they're definitely different. Our sleep consultant said that you should never cut out feedings cold turkey because their bodies have adjusted to eating at that time regularly and so they are hungry. You can gently eliminate the unnecessary feedings. (Shorten feeding by a minute each night until they no longer need it) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347913 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:46:58 +0000 MamaChin 1347913@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We CIO at 5.5 months and it took a week. First night after crying for an hour and finally putting himself to sleep, he woke up once but found his thumb after a few minutes, then I nursed him the next time he woke up 2am and again at 6am and he got up at 8am for the day. The check-ins just made him more hysterical so we moved on to extinction by night 3. The crying got less and less and so did the wake ups as the week went by, by night 7 he was sleeping 9-6. Anytime he woke up he put himself back to sleep. I continued the 6am feed until we bottle weaned at a year. </p> <p>Being able to sleep on his own and night weaning are two different things, my LO just happens to naturally wean himself. Guess he likes sleeping better than eating. He was also a big baby so he didn't actually need the night feeds, so mileage varies depending on baby on this regard. Good luck mama! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347878 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:34:21 +0000 yellowbird 1347878@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: we did extinction method at 11.5 months. We put her down in her crib awake after her bedtime routine and she of course cried because I had been rocking her (for hours) to get her to fall asleep.</p> <p>She sttn the first night after crying for 20 mins. The second night was 8 mins and third was 3 mins. It was miraculous! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347876 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:31:40 +0000 Anagram 1347876@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jedeve: I didn't stop night feedings, but my LO was waking up 6-8 times a night, so I used Ferber method CIO to eliminate the non-feeding wakeups. And to push the first feeding back to where it had been previously,</p> <p>So I picked 1 am and decided not to pick her up before that point, but would pick her up to sooth/and feed if she woke up after 1. And then again for 5 am.</p> <p>Pre-sleep training, she would go to bed at 8 pm and wakeup at 9:45, 11, 12, 1:30, etc.....all night long.</p> <p>After sleep training, we had a glorious short period of her waking up only after 1 am and after 6 am (we're both up for work at that point anyway, so that was only 1 wakeup in our night time).</p> <p>But now LO has bronchiolitis so all bets are off. We still only feed her 1 time at night though. But she wakes up more often, poor thing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347741 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:43:54 +0000 immabeetoo 1347741@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I probably shouldn't even comment since we didn't do CIO.. but I'm going to anyways. I think you can do whatever you think is right, but IMO night weaning and CIO to put themselves to sleep is totally different. I would be on board with letting an older LO cry when they don't want to be in their crib/fall asleep -- but letting them cry when they're used to being fed (regardless of whether they 'need' the feeding or not) seems not very nice. There are lots of gentler night weaning tactics -- and I don't think just because LO puts themselves to sleep, they'll STTN. (But I hope yours does!) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1347080 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:43:43 +0000 cascademom 1347080@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we did CIO, we added a dream feed. He would go down at 7pm. Then around 10-11pm, I would go in there and do a dream feed. The dream feed pushed his sleep out longer until 5-6am. I discontinued a few months later when we weaned him. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1346999 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:28:52 +0000 heartonastring 1346999@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm not big on the idea of CIO in order to night wean. I prefer the methods recommended by Alexis on Troublesome Tots: <a href="http://www.troublesometots.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-sleeping-through-the-night-part-3/" rel="nofollow">http://www.troublesometots.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-sleeping-through-the-night-part-3/</a> :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1346966 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:19:03 +0000 danda 1346966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD is 6 months. We aren't doing true CIO (will let her cry up to 5 min to see if she settles herself before tending to her). I am trying to night wean though. Basically, if I suspect she isn't really hungry, I try to calm her back. So last night our routine was 7 pm- bedtime including nursing and story time. Put down drowsy but awake, sang a prayer, and left the room. 9:30 pm dreamfed. 1 am she woke up hysterical so I only let her cry 2 min before going to her. I didn't think she was really hungry after 4 hours so I walked around bouncing her until she was very calm. Put her down awake, sang a prayer, and left the room. Then she slept until. 5:45 am and woke up happy and giggling. So there was a MOTN wakeup but not a feeding anytime between 10 pm and 6 am. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1346956 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:14:44 +0000 MamaJ 1346956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I did CIO but didn't night wean. I set a time where I would only nurse if he woke up after X time. If he woke I would nurse and put him back down. Then I would do ferber checks if he cried after that. (or before set time). I kept pushing the set time back in order to night wean. He sorta just started sleeping longer on his own though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-and-night-weaning#post-1346924 Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:04:49 +0000 jedeve 1346924@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Help.</p> <p>Is there a difference? </p> <p>If I let LO CIO at bed time, will he then sleep through the night? Or do I just let him CIO when he wakes up in the middle of the night? Do you do Ferber checks in the middle of the night, or just when they are first going to sleep?</p> <p>Help. </p>