https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:11:39 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-587556 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:46:58 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 587556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Actually, it sounds like there's progress! </p> <p>Does she use a pacifier? Do you think that (for now), it could help her get over her need to comfort nurse? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-586827 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:36:59 +0000 HabesBabe 586827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: aw, thanks for asking! Tried sans sleep sack, with just cotton PJs. Put her down at 7:30 (she woke up later yesterday and didn't seem sleepy until then), cried until 7:40p.</p> <p>Slept until 11:00p, cried on and off for an hour. Hubs went in to comfort her after an hour and she went ballistic again, placed her in her crib asleep, but she flipped out as soon as her head hit the mattress. So I caved and comfort nursed her :( She had been sucking on her sleeve for the entire hour she was crying, so I thought she was hungry? But she didn't eat much, so there goes any progress... LOL.</p> <p>Slept from midnight until 4am. Cried on and off until 6:30am. Nursed her, she slept until 8:30am.</p> <p>Soooooooo I can't really tell how this is going. WAHHHHHHHH. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-586823 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:36:23 +0000 2PeasinaPod 586823@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: Just wanted to say good luck tonight! It does get easier as the days go on, but sleep training was so much harder on me than on DH! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-586772 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:27:13 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 586772@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: How did it go last night? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-582781 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:23:57 +0000 HabesBabe 582781@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BabyBoecksMom: ok, good to know-- i will definitely change up the PJ/sleep sack configuration tonight and see if that helps at all. I'll try the bottle on Friday night if we're still having issues. thanks so much! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-582636 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:44:13 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 582636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: Our house is at 70 at night. And while I'm wearing cotton pants and sleeping under a comforter, she sleeps in just cotton, footed pjs. </p> <p>Regarding the feeding - I actually started giving her bottles at night so I could see how much she was eating. I would only go in with 2 oz if she had been fussing for more than 20 min. If she finished that and acted like she was still hungry, I would give her more. After a week or so, I figured out when she was actually hungry vs. just wanting it for comfort (like when she only took 2oz or less). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-582500 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:08:45 +0000 HabesBabe 582500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@boiledpnut: so now you've got me thinking about the temperature thing-- i know clothing-wise, babies should be wearing one more layer than we do because they can't regulate their temperature as well. the temp is a bit off on her monitor (about 4-6 degrees), so it's about 70 in her room. i'm wearing cotton PJs and i sleep under a sheet and a duvet-- so i guess i'm figuring baby should be sleeping similarly? how do you do it? i also read that 65-70 are the best temps for baby to sleep in.... so i guess i'm just lost!</p> <p>So update on night #1:<br /> 6:45p: nursed<br /> 7:15p: bedtime<br /> slept until 10:05p<br /> 10:05p-12:25a: cried on and off (2 hours 20 mins)<br /> hubs went in to comfort her, ended up picking her up and then placed her back in the crib asleep around 12:35a<br /> slept until 3:00a<br /> 3:00a: nursed (I figured she would be hungry since it had been almost 6 hours since she last nursed)<br /> slept until 6:00a<br /> 6:00a-6:30a: whimper/cried-- this is where I got lost. I didn't know if I should let her cry or nurse her, so I ended up going in and nursing her.<br /> 6:45a-8:30a: slept<br /> 8:30a: woke up for the day</p> <p>Total crying time: 2 hrs, 50 mins :(<br /> Total sleep time: 10 hours</p> <p>Any suggestions about what I should change for tonight? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581883 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:36:05 +0000 HabesBabe 581883@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@boiledpnut: we'll try sans sleep sack tonight, but i think it serves as a lovey for her, too. She's never sweaty, and her cheeks aren't rosy or warm.</p> <p>@BabyBoecksMom: yes, she nursed about thirty minutes before bedtime, so I believe she was full :) thanks for the suggestion! And yay for finally STTN! How did you know your LO really was hungry with each waking?</p> <p>@leelee: she cried for almost 2 1/2 hours last night. The hubs went in to do a check and tried rubbing her belly to console her. Of course she freaked, so he picked her up and calmed her down. She sleep until 3 (this was around midnight), then I nursed her at 3. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581865 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:30:01 +0000 winniebee 581865@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>How'd the rest of the night go?</p> <p>We are going to stop feeding at night LO very, very soon. He sleeps through half the time, so I know he can do it. Ugh. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581844 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:25:12 +0000 leelee 581844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: goodluck! When I tried to sleep train DD she cried for 2 hours off and on until DH couldn't take it anymore. We haven't tried since :/ . She is 8 months now and I wish we had trained her earlier. Now that she is a rolling machine and wakes up from hitting her head on the crib slats and screams so uncontrollably that we have to pick her up to console her and reposition her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581649 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:26:10 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 581649@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: that's so tough. Just checking, but did you make sure she ate really good before she CIO'd? I'm hoping (for your sake) she's not like my LO, who really was hungry every time she woke at night. At 1 yr, she finally STTN *sigh* </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581647 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:25:31 +0000 boiledpnut 581647@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She might be too warm. 75 plus a sleep sack could be kind of hot for her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581558 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:33:55 +0000 BoogieBea 581558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: oh no! Poor thing! Aaw, I'm sorry it's been so tough! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581556 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 02:07:32 +0000 HabesBabe 581556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BoogieBea: umm yeah, she only stopped crying for about 5 minutes and has been going on and off for about an hour now. LOL. She keeps playing with her sleep sack, which is what she usually does before falling asleep, but then she'll start to cry again :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581541 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:43:59 +0000 BoogieBea 581541@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@HabesBabe: Good job little girl! She must've been doing somersaults in there! I hope she'll have a good stretch of sleep tonight! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581529 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:32:26 +0000 HabesBabe 581529@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@BoogieBea: the next day!!?!?? that would be amazing. I need your good juju to rub off on me.</p> <p>Looks like she fell back asleep after 22 minutes of crying... not too bad! But now homegirl's turned from noon/midnight to 9pm (if that makes any sense).</p> <p>[attach=146/13/mik4yx.600x338.IMG_20130220_223503.jpg] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581526 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:26:02 +0000 BoogieBea 581526@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Good luck! Sleep training it tough! We did it with our son when he was 6.5 months old so much like your LO, the crying was excruciating. We waited to sleep train as well because we just weren't ready before then. But, in the end, it was so worth it for us. He was able to fall asleep at night and stay asleep, take proper naps and became a happier baby. He was sleep trained pretty much by the next day. I hope it goes well for you. Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/giving-cio-a-try-tonight-for-night-wakings-whomp-whomp#post-581524 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:19:56 +0000 HabesBabe 581524@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is a little over 7 months old and we are giving CIO a try tonight (after 5 night wakings last night). She is able to fall asleep on her own for naps and when we put her down in her crib for the night, but she's been waking up every 2-3 hours to comfort nurse for the past 2 months or so. </p> <p>She was STTN from 2 months to 5 1/2 months, so the sudden night wakings kind of caught us off guard, so I would go in and nurse her each time she cried (only after 15-30 seconds of crying, usually!), so this is going to be a hard habit to break.</p> <p>We put her down at 7:15p, and right on schedule-- she started crying around 10:05. It's been 10 minutes and she's still going strong... but pausing for breaths, followed by a little whimpering, followed by some "MAMAMAMMAMA" (KILLS me), and some more crying. I'm *hoping* that she'll fall back asleep within the next 10 minutes or so?</p> <p>I'm not planning on doing checks (when we tried this before, the checks made her more upset) at any set increments, but I will swoop her up as soon as her crying changes to "OMG MOMMMM/inconsolable." Any other tips/suggestions? I'm actually feeling OK about it so far, but the hubs was kind of against it. I'm trying to stay optimistic (better for all of us in the long run! should only be 3 days-ish of torture!), but after re-reading Mrs. Bee's "When to Sleep Train" blog post (<a href="http://www.hellobee.com/2012/03/23/when-to-sleep-train/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hellobee.com/2012/03/23/when-to-sleep-train/</a>), it looks like we couldn't have picked a worse time. Whoops.</p> <p>Wish us luck! </p>