https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:18:19 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-483610 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 09:17:23 +0000 pastemoo 483610@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@sloaneandpuffy: I think it depends on the age of the baby, right? Medically STTN was 5 hours straight for newborn and .... eight for 6months plus? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-482584 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:00:35 +0000 mamimami 482584@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My pedi told me sttn is considered sleeping from 12 am to 5 am. So it depends on your definition! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-482562 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:43:30 +0000 pastemoo 482562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Once a night for me would be a dream! I consider that trained.<br /> I feel like I need to read the real article. It is consistent with what the older generation tells me but not with what I have seen among friends (or is it just that those with babies who STTN don't bother to come online to ask?).<br /> Also it doesn't address multiple night wakings vs one, wakings to feed vs waking to be comforted another way. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481606 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:19:56 +0000 BelugaBean 481606@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thank you for posting this! We're about to do our second night of CIO and I've been thinking about if it's really worth doing or okay to do. This helps a lot! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481594 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:15:26 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 481594@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I was going to say the exact same thing!</p> <p>Where are they getting these crazy well-behaved babies? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481588 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 18:09:58 +0000 regberadaisy 481588@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't read the article but I do not believe everything works for all babies. In the desperation of the 4month sleep regression I tried CIO and we failed miserably. As in she was still crying hysterically after an hour.<br /> At 7 months she just started sleeping through the night by herself. No sleep training and BFing.</p> <p>My nephew is formula fed and still does not sleep trough the night.</p> <p>M is 8 months and nephew is a week older. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481521 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:43:00 +0000 LemonLong 481521@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is 10 weeks old and is a pretty good sleeper, she does 7-8 hours straight before waking up. She's still under 10 lbs, so I'm hoping when she hits 10 lbs she will sleep even better.</p> <p> We started sleep training at 3 weeks old. By 4-5 weeks she had dropped her night feeding. Dropping this feeding didn't impact my LO's growth, as she is still gaining at least an ounce a day according to my weekly weigh ins. I just make sure she gets all her feedings in before bedtime. </p> <p>Everytime she cries, I wait to see if she resolves it herself before going in. I try not to nurse until 5 am which is our family's normal wake up time, so if she does wake up earlier than that I do a sniff test to check for a poopy diaper, if she's okay there, I'll check her swaddle to make sure she's comfy and make sure she has her paci. I'll also restart her white noise and tranquil turtle. If she's still upset I will pick her up and hold her sideways in my arms while swaddled with her paci, once she stops crying I lay her back down in the crib awake and usually within minutes she is back to sleep. </p> <p>I think CIO definitely works and has taught my baby how to self soothe! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481443 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:18:01 +0000 Bao 481443@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: ok I'm going to try that for sure!! Thank you :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481421 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:13:26 +0000 loveisstrange 481421@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: Yep. I, personally, feel like immediate response just reinforces night waking. They learn cry=mommy. If they learn that you arent going to come running, they start to lose interest in waking up. Also, we wouldn't go in unless she started crying. She'd wake up, talk to herself for a bit and then fall back asleep without me needing to get out of bed.</p> <p>I agree with @Sammyfab: though. Start by making sure she knows how to soothe herself to sleep. Don't let her nurse/feed/rock to sleep. Put her down drowsy but awake. You can also try putting her down and rubbing her back or patting her tummy, if you want to take a baby step. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481413 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:10:34 +0000 Bao 481413@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sammyfab: half the time she does and half the time she doesn't... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481410 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:09:27 +0000 Bao 481410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@GreekWife: yeah I really need to try that... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481408 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:09:15 +0000 Sammyfab 481408@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: is she falling asleep on her own or does she need to be nursed/fed/rocked/etc. to sleep? If she has sleep dependencies then that would play a huge part in all of her wakings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481407 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:09:04 +0000 Bao 481407@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@zippylef: did it eventually work? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481404 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:08:11 +0000 loveisstrange 481404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: I think a good place to start is to wait a while before responding at night. Like, she wakes up and you wait 10-15 minutes before going in to feed her. That's where we started. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481399 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:06:29 +0000 GreekWife 481399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: Some sleep books would suggest stretching the time - it makes for a much more restless night though. A lot less sleep for a while. We didn't consider doing that until I felt like she was eating well, and wanting me more for comfort than food - so like 10 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481301 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:35:17 +0000 Bao 481301@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is up 3-8 times a night and she is 4 months old. I feel like I'm doing something wrong. She goes to bed fine, but just wakes up so much, I would love my sleep back. If she's going to bed fine how do I really do CIO? When she wakes up to eat ignore her? That's hard because its usually easier to just give her a paci or feed her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481261 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:17:13 +0000 MamaMoose 481261@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>While I agree that most hellobee babies aren't sleeping through the night at 6 months almost all of my real life friends' babies were sleeping trough the night at that point (most of whom were breastfed) so I'm not sure what to think about that. LO is so far a great night sleeper (usually only one night waking, 2 is a bad night for us) but she's only 6 weeks old so who knows what the future holds. We have no issues using CIO in the future if we find it to be necessary. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481193 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:44:35 +0000 loveisstrange 481193@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: Yeah, but they are considering STTN as no night waking, not "sleeping at least 6 hours" or whatever the technical definition is.</p> <p>I will say... we did CIO and we sleep trained just like the article said by putting her in her crib, letting her fall asleep on her own and waiting before we responded at night, and C was sleeping straight through the night by 6 months old, 6:30pm-8:30am.</p> <p>@glimmersnaps: They said there is a correlation between breastfeeding and waking more at night. This isnt the first or last study to find that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481150 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:28:59 +0000 Mrs. Pen 481150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I never minded once a night either- but he's still getting up 2-4x a night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481149 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:28:52 +0000 X0X0X0 481149@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl I agree. From what i often read, most HB babies aren't STTN at 6 months. We sleep trained DD @ 6 months using CIO (as a last resort since everything else we tried didn't work), and it helped reduce nite wakings from 4 to 2 (sometimes 1). But she definitely isn't STTN at 7 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481145 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:27:34 +0000 erwoo 481145@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Worked for both of my boys for us so I believe in it. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481111 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:14:23 +0000 skibobrown 481111@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmm... I also can't believe that most babies are sleeping through the night at 6 months. Otherwise most of us on hellobee seem to be doing something wrong. My daughter dropped her night feedings at 3.5 months, but she continued to wake up for her pacifier multiple times per night until 7 months or so. I guess we could have sleep trained earlier, but she had no self-soothing capabilities other than her pacifier, so it didn't seem fair. Now at 9 months she can put her own pacifier back in, so I don't feel so bad about it. Still, she's not quite down to the 1x per week wakings described in this article. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481109 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:13:40 +0000 mediagirl 481109@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Pen: @Thehistoryofus: I'll be honest with you.....at just about 7 months now, I really don't mind getting up once a night.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481105 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:12:51 +0000 Mrs. Pen 481105@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: HA! I sleep trained my son and at 10 months he still isn't STTN! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481100 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:10:51 +0000 T.H.O.U. 481100@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mediagirl: I agree, that seems like a way off statement to me. Plus I think if you look at nature and breastfeeding, babies are designed to wake up and eat frequently. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481097 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:10:28 +0000 glimmersnaps 481097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry, but following their logic, mothers also shouldn't breastfeed because breastfed babies tended to wake up more. :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481074 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:02:55 +0000 littlek 481074@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>CIO seems to be working for us so far. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481070 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:02:11 +0000 mediagirl 481070@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm shocked by this statement: </p> <p>"By six months of age, most babies sleep through the night, awakening their mothers only about once per week," said Temple psychology professor and study co-author Marsha Weinraub. </p> <p>But glad she added this :"However, not all children follow this pattern of development."</p> <p>If we took a poll of all HB members, I don't think we would find that "most" of our babies are STTN at 6 months.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481037 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:50:11 +0000 kml636 481037@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hate to do that, but when I listen to stories around the neighborhood of 13 month old kids that are still not sleeping through the night, I think a few mins of crying is a much better alternative! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-new-study#post-481029 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:48:13 +0000 meredithNYC 481029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is encouraging. We sleep trained our LO around 4 months and we did do CIO, though to be honest we rarely needed to (yes, we are definitely lucky in that regard) since she learned to self-soothe by sucking her thumb. Sometimes I feel guilty because people react so negatively to CIO, but my LO is now 7 months old and has slept from 7pm-7am for about 3 months now. She naps well, too, and is a very happy baby, so all I can say is that it worked for us. </p>