https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 13:43:24 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199234 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:52:04 +0000 cascademom 1199234@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: It'll happen. For me, once we got past the sleep issues and CIO, LO became a lot more fun. Everyone is getting sleep and it's better. Right now, the time change is messing with me. I keep waking up close to my alarm time by a few hours and can't go back to sleep. I'm not sleeping through the night right now. Argh. It's partly why I wouldn't mind being pregnant sooner than later to get those 15 months done with again. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199229 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:49:39 +0000 .twist. 1199229@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@cascademom: I'm really hoping I can have this soon. I am the most bitchy and unproductive woman in existence right now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199190 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:34:47 +0000 cascademom 1199190@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: We did it at 6 months with some urging from our peds. He asked about sleep and said it was bad. From there, we tried other approaches, but CIO extinction worked for us. His sleep is so much better than before. It's also around the time that sleep for DH and I returned where we could go to bed and sleep, then tend to LO. Having normal sleep again was a revelation. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199170 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:29:14 +0000 .twist. 1199170@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bpcmarj: @Bao: thanks ladies, that is super reassuring!! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199164 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:28:27 +0000 .twist. 1199164@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: ugh. It was so hard. I did not cry or cave, but he was crying. Sleep. Crying. Sleep. Rinse. Repeat. All night. I'm going to go write more about what I did in my original thread right now. :) </p> <p>@cascademom: how old was your LO when you did it? So glad to hear it worked for you, I am reeeeeeally hoping night two is, like, 100x easier. Haha </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199146 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:20:12 +0000 cascademom 1199146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: We did extinction CIO. It was the only thing that worked for LO. It totally sucked, but was worth it. He went from little sleep to 11-13 hours a night. Yesterday, I was afraid we would have a huge regression because he threw the biggest tantrum about getting ready for bed, but crashed so fast into deep sleep soon after. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199142 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:18:33 +0000 JoJoGirl 1199142@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: How did it go? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199134 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:15:21 +0000 Bao 1199134@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: I promise it gets easier!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199131 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:15:08 +0000 bpcmarj 1199131@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@.twist.: We also had to do extinction, though LO was older at 11.5 months. When we went in at all it would just wind her up even more. But, the first week was hell. I think it was 2 hours the first night and at least 30 minutes of crying for the first week. Then slowly down to 2 minutes, and now she rarely cries for more than 30 seconds. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-1199128 Wed, 06 Nov 2013 10:12:31 +0000 .twist. 1199128@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Aaaah! I'm reviving this thread. I just finished night one of the extinction method and it was so brutal!! I'm a bundle of nerves today. L is in the middle of his first nap for day one. I'm really hoping night two is easier than night one because I don't know if I can do that again. So glad I found this post as it seems this is not a popular method. :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-609770 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:21:03 +0000 cascademom 609770@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We're going to be doing CIO soon at a little over 6 months old. He got his shots on Friday and last night was rough, so by the end of the week we'll halt the crazy wake ups and add in a bottle of formula too. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-609760 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 19:13:28 +0000 bunnylove08 609760@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow @bao I'm jealous I'm too chicken to do it. Dd only wakes up twice a night once to nurse and for a paci. Hopefully soon I will try it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-609565 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 16:19:57 +0000 MrsH 609565@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Wow, great job lady! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-608743 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:52:19 +0000 matador84 608743@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh my goodness, I would not survive at 8 wake ups! We did a modified CIO and he gradually just set his own bedtime between 630-7, sometimes a little earlier. He was pretty sick a few weeks ago and is still waking up 2x per night, but I can handle that!</p> <p>I have a friend who has a 1 y/o and is up sooo many times a night and she refuses to do CIO for any length of time. It kills me because she is so tired...I'm like just give in! You aren't abandoning your baby! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-608742 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:51:56 +0000 tysonja 608742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>woot woot!! awesomeness!! :D enjoy more sleeepppp!!!!!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-608711 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:24:41 +0000 mrslace 608711@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bao - my Lo is 3.5 months and we are going to sleep train at the end of this week. Right now we have to rock him to sleep and he wakes up several times at night and I rock him<br /> Back to sleep. Last week he got sick so to help him get more sleep he is on his tummy and can sleep from 6:30-6:30 and wakes up twice to eat. We know he can't put himself to sleep if we put him on his back in the crib which is why we are going to sleep train. This week in going to work on drowsy but awake in the crib with the swaddle/white noise and document how he does. Did you do complete CIO with no checks? We are thinking of doing the modified CIO with checks but I'm trying to work up the courage. I feel so nervous and sad! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548710 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:01:17 +0000 JoJoGirl 548710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: @littlek: Thanks to you both! About to dive into my sleep books so starting to pay attention :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548671 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:42:38 +0000 littlebug 548671@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I wondered the same thing. Thanks for clarifying, @Bao: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548596 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:17:37 +0000 lovehoneybee 548596@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's awesome, I'm so glad it's working out for you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548558 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:07:59 +0000 BelugaBean 548558@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yay! I'm so glad it worked for you! </p> <p>We also put a time limit on crying at night. If she cries more than 10 minutes, she's usually hungry or needs something. Or if she really needs something (or is scared for some reason), she has a more frantic cry that she does. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548543 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:02:24 +0000 littlek 548543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I usually put a time limit on crying at night? If LO cries for longer than X minutes, I know it's because he's hungry. Normally LO will fuss and then fall right asleep so it's not much of an issue. We didn't do CIO until LO was 7 months old, adjusted age 5.5 months because I wanted to make sure he got all of his feedings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548539 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000 Bao 548539@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JoJoGirl: I was mostly going by actual hours in-between. When she was nursing before bed around 6:15/6:30 and would wake up between 7pm and 11pm I knew there was no way she could be hungry, especially at 5 months old. So then I knew if she woke up after say 11:30pm, there was a good chance she really was hungry. Then if she woke up again after 4:30am (5 hours in-between), I knew again, there was probably a good chance she was hungry. I knew though, waking up 2 hours after a feeding she was just waking up, and knew I was coming in to replace a paci and that was getting to be too much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548520 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:54:25 +0000 JoJoGirl 548520@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Silly question, but how do you tell the difference between when it's time to CIO and when it's time to nurse? Is ther cry different? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548513 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:52:14 +0000 Bao 548513@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: She takes 2 naps a day and they are about 30-60 minutes a piece, so I guess not TOO terrible...but for a 5 month old that seems pretty short. She is pretty happy after her little naps though, so I can't complain...especially since she sleeps so much at night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548511 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:50:57 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 548511@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: what are her naps like? When W was that age she was a horrible napper too. She kind of had to grow into being a good napper. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548508 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:49:10 +0000 Bao 548508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Thanks :)...yeah I'd almost prefer a little bit shorter night, to get things done during the day. She begs to differ! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548504 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:48:13 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 548504@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Bao: oh got it....that is amazing! Congrats on your succes.</p> <p>My LO only sleeps 10 at night, but takes great naps!<br /> I guess it's a trade off..... :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548497 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:46:38 +0000 Bao 548497@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Rainbow Sprinkles: Yes about 14, of course she wakes up to nurse for a bit in the middle of the night. During the day though, her naps are pretty short so I think that is why she sleeps more at night :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548496 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:46:12 +0000 littlek 548496@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yea, that's great news! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/our-cio-success-story#post-548492 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:44:16 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 548492@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>She sleeps for 14-15 hours at night? Holy crap!!!!! </p>