https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:33:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635773 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:50:16 +0000 PawPrints 2635773@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would wait until after vacation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635663 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:36:51 +0000 brownepiano 2635663@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would do it. The first time we did CIO, it took about 3 nights and it was ROUGH. But after that one time, every time he started to regress and we'd have to do it again, it was shorter. And when we were on vacation, he'd sleep worse, but it was still better than the pre-CIO days. </p> <p>At best you'll get a few decent nights sleep before vacation, and maybe reasonable sleep on vacation. At worst you'll get a few decent nights sleep before vacation and vacation will be no worse than if you hadn't done it.</p> <p>ETA- as with all these things, sleep training isn't really a once and done thing, so you might as get the first time over with. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635647 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:17:01 +0000 Ms.Badger 2635647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would wait. My kiddo always sleeps terribly on vacation. It doesn't matter how ideal the set up is, even in his own room in a crib, quiet with white noise at my parents or in laws house, he still wakes up and doesn't know where he is and freaks. I also could not deal with the excess of crying that would bother someone else on vacation, so I have been known to use every sleep crutch i can think of while on vacation.</p> <p>Good luck either way :goodluck: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635638 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 12:11:19 +0000 gingerbebe 2635638@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would sleep train now and work hard to keep your baby's schedule and sleep environment as similar as possible. We traveled right after my son was trained and he did very well but we made sure he slept in his own room with blacked out curtains, we packed his white noise machine, we shipped a Dream on Me mattress for his pack n' play, and stuck to his nap schedule during the day as much as humanly possible, even if it meant annoying my in-laws by leaving places early or hauling the PNP and mattress and noise machine with us in the car so the baby could sleep while we visited Grandma or whatever.</p> <p>Definitely expect regressions when you get back, especially if there's a time change, but I'd rather have something to go back to rather than just live with terrible sleep for weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635624 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:50:33 +0000 BlueWolverine 2635624@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@raspberries: Yeah, this is what I'm worried about. Why put us all through it the next two nights only to have to do it again when we get home? May just have to suck it up and wait. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635570 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:19:33 +0000 raspberries 2635570@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our LO was sleep trained about a month before we went on a two week long vacation, and his night sleep was still completely messed up because he wasn't napping on his usual schedule. So I'd say you can try to sleep train this week, but I suspect it won't make much difference. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635569 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:19:32 +0000 BlueWolverine 2635569@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: This is my thought. It may not stick forever, but maybe we can get some good sleep.</p> <p>@looch: Good point. She'll be sleeping in a pack and play with a PNP mattress (not just the pad). She's slept through the night in it before. She will be in a separate room most of the time. Will need to think about this. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635566 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:11:22 +0000 looch 2635566@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would only do it if you could be consistent while on vacation and have the same set up at home and away (crib in a separate room, etc). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635557 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:50:08 +0000 SweetiePie 2635557@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would do it...worst that will happen is that it doesn't stick while on vacation or reverts back when you return from vacation. Which doesn't seem worse to me than leaving it be. Either way, potential for wake ups is there. But at least with some sleep training there's a chance of eliminating them.<br /> If your LO had never slept through the night and you were attempting sleep training for the first time, I'd say to just wait. But you're just trying to get back on track to where you were before.<br /> I'd also go in expecting that now to Saturday isn't that long so you may not have the results you desire. But again, I think it can't hurt since she's already sttn before. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-sleep-train-before-vacation#post-2635548 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:42:19 +0000 BlueWolverine 2635548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For those of you who did CIO, what do you think about attempting before a vacation? We leave for an 8 day vacation to my home state on Saturday morning, but LO (6 mo) has been waking up about every two hours. It started when she had stomach flu; she's completely over it now. Before that, she had been sleeping through the night no problem. We were going to wait until we got home from vacation, but dealing with night wakings like this sounds like a terrible vacation.</p> <p>DH wants to start tonight. For context, she slept through the night on Monday night, so we know she can do it. </p>