https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 15:02:45 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1410509 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:03:37 +0000 lindseykaye 1410509@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Running Elley: our sleep training journeys sound very similar!</p> <p>First night: 33 minutes<br /> 2nd night: 14 minutes<br /> 3rd night: 3 minutes<br /> All nights after that (mostly) between 0-10 minutes.</p> <p>The longest she cried was 45 minutes but I'm not sure she was ready for sleep those nights. It's tough to judge sometimes. We trained at 8 months and any MOTN before 2am would CIO - 15 minutes was her magic number to calm back down and fall asleep. We continued to nurse after 2 and for a while I was getting a wakeup at 2 and 5, up for the day at 6:30. The 2am stopped within a couple months. The 5 am recently stopped and she is 15 months tomorrow.<br /> Life is INFINITELY better after sleep training. Seriously, life changing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1410477 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 17:38:12 +0000 Mrswonderwoman 1410477@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did sleep training at 10 months to get ds to go to sleep on his own without a pacifier. He cried maybe 5 mins and fell asleep on his own. Night 2, no crying. We've only had crying at bedtime maybe 2 times since then. </p> <p>We did a second round at 1 year to try to lengthen his sleep and cut out a few night wakings, and that was much harder and took longer. Maybe 2 weeks? Every night was different, but eventually we went from 4 or 5 wakings, down to 2... And then 1. Now, if we could just get rid of this pesky last one! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402725 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:09:02 +0000 mrs. wagon 1402725@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We never full-on CIOed. We went in after 5 mins of crying, then 10 mins of crying, then 15 mins of crying. Never had to wait more than two 15 min crying periods. Wagon Jr. was STTN in 2 weeks when we sleep trained him at 4.5 months. We never sleep trained LMW... she started STTN on her own at 8 months. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402724 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:08:47 +0000 Smurfette 1402724@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@knittylady: Seriously teething is the devil. I would do something, even to just get back to the one wake up. Hugs! It is hard but in the end happier household. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402721 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:06:22 +0000 knittylady 1402721@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: 2 times normally, and as he's getting over roseola it's upped to 3-4. </p> <p>@Smurfette: He slept till 3 a few times before, with that being his only wake-up, but then he started teething... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402718 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:04:21 +0000 Smurfette 1402718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@knittylady: What is the longest LO has gone without eating over night?<br /> @JoJoGirl: R eats a half an avocado all the time. Day care is amazed that she eats it. I guess the other parents don't send anything like it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402714 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:01:56 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402714@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@knittylady: How many times is your LO getting up? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402713 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:01:38 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402713@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: It's crazy! And we always have to stop feeding her because we run out of time and not because she's finished. She ate an ENTIRE HALF AN AVOCADO last night in addition to chicken and puree broccoli. She's a machine. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402710 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 09:00:51 +0000 knittylady 1402710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: 8 months. I think we have to just bite the bullet... maybe this weekend.. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402708 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:59:52 +0000 Smurfette 1402708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@knittylady: At 6 months, our pedi told us to just cut it since she was back to 3-4 wake ups a night. She said that R didn't need to eat over night and would then eat better in the day. So that night we just let her CIO every wake up. How old is your LO? You will have to do longer then 15 mins, at least in my experience. </p> <p>I will add that she had STTN before, so we knew she could do it. She didn't handle her first teeth well, so she got use to Mom nursing her back to sleep.</p> <p>@JoJoGirl: Woo hoo!! So excited for you cause I know how much you have been waiting for this day. That is a lot of food. She eats more then R! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402707 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:59:29 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sparkler: OH man. that's so tough. My bugger is 9 months so i feel you on the 'troubleshoot vs. sleep' debate! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402703 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:58:02 +0000 Sparkler 1402703@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jojogirl: think it's part if it and then craving closeness since she doesn't want to be held during the day. She eats a ton of solids, but even when we give her a bottle with fast flow she only takes 3, sometimes 4 oz, max. When my husband goes in at night she will only take 1 oz and keeps crying, but if I nurse her she will calm down and eventually go back to sleep. Seems like it's adding to the problem, but when we try to solve the problem we don't sleep, literally. She is 11 months so I am sure she will eventually deal with the seperation, hunger, teething, habit or whatever, but some days I feel hopeless. She Always wakes up smiling and laughing, so we forgive her each morning! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402699 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:54:20 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402699@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: She bumped it back to 5am for a couple of days last week, then slept 7-6:30 straight 2 nights in a row. I never thought the day would come. Last night she got up to eat at 5am again and went back to sleep, so if we can continue this for a few more days I'll start feeling optimistic. She is seriously eating like a 2 year old - banana, rice, cereal for breakfast, chicken, avocado, and sweet potato for lunch AND dinner...we are just stuffing her with as much protein and fat as possible. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402698 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:53:37 +0000 knittylady 1402698@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Smurfette: Don't want to thread jack, but how did you stop the MOTN feedings? I feel like CIOing isn't working but maybe I'm not committed enough... (giving up after 15 minutes or so...) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402693 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:50:43 +0000 Smurfette 1402693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: Is she dropping the MOTN feeding? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402690 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:47:53 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402690@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Sparkler: For us it became about loading LO up on calories during the day since we determined she was really hungry in the MOTN, and not waking up out of habit. I think it might be working but it's a work in progress. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402685 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:45:32 +0000 Smurfette 1402685@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we resleep trained at 6 months (thanks teething) and stopped MOTN feedings, three night and pretty much has been STTN since. The longest crying was between an hour and an hour and half. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402683 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:43:34 +0000 Mrs. Bee 1402683@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>both kids were very easy to sleep train. i have detailed notes on the how long for both kids on the blog! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402680 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:40:25 +0000 Sparkler 1402680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Never worked for middle of the night. 7 days of torture of 90 mins++ so we gave up. Bedtime took a few days maybe 20 mins. Still hoping to figure out middle of the night... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402677 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:38:35 +0000 Trailmix 1402677@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Are you asking about falling asleep or for MOTN wake-ups? We did full-in CIO for wake-ups and it took DD about 3 nights to sleep straight through, max 30 mins crying. DS, on the other hand (they're twins) has cried upwards of 2 hours and his sleep is still a work in progress... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402642 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:12:10 +0000 Running Elley 1402642@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Night 1 bedtime- 1 hour and 3 minutes<br /> Night 2 bedtime- 18 minutes<br /> Night 3 bedtime- 3 minutes<br /> Night 4 bedtime- no crying</p> <p>For MOTN wakeups we decided that for any wakeup after 2am I'd go in and feed him. He never cried for more than 20 minutes during a wake up and I think it took about 4 days before he was only waking up once, around 3 or 4am. That was infinitely better than the every 1-2 hour wakeups that we had been getting so we left it. We sleep trained at 5.5 months and at 7 months he dropped that one wakeup on his own. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402632 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:07:23 +0000 Mrs. Pen 1402632@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took nearly two weeks, but the first week we did the ferber method with the checks, and I "broke the rules" and touched/soothed him depending on how upset he seemed.</p> <p>The second week was when we tried extinction. </p> <p>For the first few days the crying was usually 30 min +, but it was down to about 20 by the next week and eventually none. But it took a while! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402629 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:06:06 +0000 Bao 1402629@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First night was up to 65 minutes per wake up. By night 3 or 4 it was down to just 5 minutes then not at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402625 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 08:02:52 +0000 JoJoGirl 1402625@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Depends on if you mean for bedtime or MOTN wakings. CIO did not work for us for MOTN; she cried until we fed her, no matter how long we waited (longest attempt was 90 mins). Bedtime was a different story.. she cried max 30 mins and it wasn't hysterical, more of a whine. After 3-4 night she put herself to bed with no crying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402620 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:49:49 +0000 betsyboop 1402620@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took one day and she cried for 20 minutes after going to bed, and then 20 minutes in the middle of the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402618 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:48:25 +0000 illumina 1402618@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took one day and she cried on and off for 15-20 for each nap/bedtime. This was just so she could fall asleep on her own--we weren't having any MOTN wakings.</p> <p>She never got to the full on hysterical cry. If she did, it wouldn't have worked...she only does that when there is really something wrong. After the first day, she would whine for maybe half a minute after being put down...then this gradually reduced and a month later, she doesn't usually make a peep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402592 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 06:40:33 +0000 blackbird 1402592@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>First night was almost 20 min to the second. She woke up a few times, took less to settle. She Woke up once or twice I think a couple nights after. I temember a regression on night 5 with four wake ups or so. It took a full week for her to really get it and start STTN regularly. She's been doing it since for the most part! But 20 min was the longest serious cry she had. The rest was where she would go between crying and fussing. She was freaking out one second, then out the next. No ramp down at all </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/for-the-full-on-cio-ers-how-many-minutes-and-days-did-it-take#post-1402576 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 04:31:17 +0000 Mrs. Chipmunk 1402576@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For anyone that did full on cry it out, without going in the room to reassure at all, how long did it really take to "work," how long did they cry for each night? After it worked, did your baby just go to sleep quietly thereafter, or did they continue to cry each night?</p> <p>If your baby had a full on hysterical cry, could they recover from it by themselves? </p>