https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:11:06 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1528259 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:43:17 +0000 immabeetoo 1528259@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: i'm sure your library has it! As far as I remember, it's an immediate response. At the very beginning I picked him up the instant he made noise, but eventually found that it worked better to walk out calmly and down to the kitchen - which took approximately 20 seconds. Sometimes he would squawk and then roll on to his tummy and that was it. That's what worked for us at least! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1528247 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 23:30:56 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1528247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: I'm usually a huge book person, but I don't know if I can bring myself to buy yet ANOTHER baby sleep book and read about baby sleep cycles...I just wanna know the good stuff! Is there any waiting when baby starts crying, or is it a pretty immediate response? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1528069 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:46:36 +0000 immabeetoo 1528069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: I mean, it depends on your style I guess. I find comfort in reading books, so I found it helpful. That is the gist of it though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1527290 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:29:29 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1527290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: Oh hell yeah, that was super helpful to read. I think I'd like to try this before CIO... I know I'll just need to buckle down and do it, and with so many freaking wake ups all night, I know it's gonna succccck. :/. Is it with getting the book or is it just basically PU when they start to cry-cry (not fuss cry), PD when they're calm, working towards them being more awake? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1527247 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 18:09:42 +0000 immabeetoo 1527247@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: this is my original thread about it - <a href="http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-cry-sleep-solution-wahoo" rel="nofollow">http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-cry-sleep-solution-wahoo</a> if you have any questions feel free to wall me. it was, and continues to me, a great experience for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1525528 Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:02:05 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1525528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I have a sleep suit in the way! I just put LO in our bed to see if it helped with the put down (it's a Tempurpedic so a little softer than her bed)... I got her down and have been watching and she totally has these twitchy limb movements that are waking her up, so I'm super hopeful the suit will work!!</p> <p>@Zbug: I like that idea! We cosleep the second half of the night, so LO is used to sleeping flat, just not flat and alone!! I reeeeally like the three strike idea! Good luck to you too!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1521490 Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:12:53 +0000 Zbug 1521490@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Okay so we decided to start co sleeping instead of doing the crib transition for now (she was waking up too often and frankly I can't be a good mama after nights like that), but I've heard numerous success stories about doing three strikes. Basically, you start the baby off in the crib and wait for three wakeups before moving them to rnp, your bed, whatever. As they get used to the crib, the idea is that it will take longer and longer to reach three strikes. Eventually, and hopefully sooner rather than later, they won't get to three strikes and will sleep in their own bed. My LO is going through a bad sleep patch now, so we actually decided to move her to our bed first to get her used to sleeping on a flat surface instead of the rnp incline. We plan to implement three strikes again once we are ready to try the crib. Good luck!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1521399 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:36:25 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1521399@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@scg00387: What did you guys do for nights? I'm totally open to anything!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520947 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:29:11 +0000 immabeetoo 1520947@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: no input on the other stuff, just wanted to say I was going insane at that age and my LO's sleep got much better naturally during the day at 5.5 months and at night with a different sleep training method. Hang in there! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520151 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:18:55 +0000 edelweiss 1520151@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>i would go for it all at once, but i think it's a personal choice and there are pros and cons to each option. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520132 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:14:43 +0000 Madison43 1520132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hi again! No real advice, just sympathy. LO has been in her crib for a while so she's ok there, but she is a total swaddle junkie., so I too have been wondering whether it's better to address these issues one at a time, or all at once. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520097 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:06:47 +0000 blackbird 1520097@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms. janedoe, we put her in the crib for like two weeks and it was on and off until we went for sleep training. we did the nest and swaddle weened, too. that stupid RnP. So nice, so troublesome </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520047 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:53:15 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1520047@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I've been doing it in a lame attempt to swaddle-wean...sounds like the sleep suit might be a good starting point!</p> <p>I'll try to get back with doing drowsy but awake in the crib until the sleep suit gets here, maybe worst case she'll get used to being in the crib more! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1520032 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:49:44 +0000 babypugs 1520032@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I could have written this post---we tried the transition/Ferber last weekend with our 5 month old. It was just too much at once, I think. I wouldn't recommend it, I think we're going to slowwwwwly introduce her to the crib while awake then work on night time once she thinks it's a "happy" place. I don't know if this will work or not, but I empathize with you mama! Hope all goes well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519974 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:32:53 +0000 hilsy85 1519974@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: are you doing that because she hates because swaddled or because you're trying to swaddle wean? I second the merlins magic sleep suit if you are trying to swaddle wean, although that won't really help with the initial "put down" shock, it will help her not startle quite as much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519968 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:30:47 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1519968@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ShootingStar: Yeah, still in the RnP. Good idea about the crib. I was trying it but gave up after a few hellish days where we honestly did HOURS before giving up</p> <p>@hilsy85: I have one arm swaddled, but not very tightly, she manages to always pull it free. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519964 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:29:18 +0000 hilsy85 1519964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ms.janedoe: is she still swaddled? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519953 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:24:38 +0000 ShootingStar 1519953@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Where are you doing drowsy but awake for naps - the RnP? I'd start with trying to put her in the crib like that, and letting her cry for about 5 minutes before getting her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519908 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:11:22 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1519908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: Did you go for crib and sleep training all at once? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519826 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:45:15 +0000 blackbird 1519826@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>That's pretty much the position we were in. It was awful but took a week and got much better. We used the merlin magic sleep suit! I have some old posts somewhere if you want to dig for them </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519788 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:32:10 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1519788@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Thanks, everyone! When I was putting hr down in it last time I tried, she was jumping/startling herself WIDE awake as soon as she'd touch down on it--any suggestions for that or do I just...hope maybe she'll be really tired? :/ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519742 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:17:07 +0000 septca 1519742@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DD sleeps 100x better in her crib in her own room than in any other situation, so I would get LO moved first. Give it a week or so and see if your wake up situation improves. Then I would CIO. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519717 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:11:33 +0000 lovehoneybee 1519717@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a modified CIO to transition him to the crib, and didn't address the night-wake ups at all (I was BFing on demand, and he was still demanding it often then). But after a week or two in the crib he slowly started sleeping in longer stretches on his own. I think he really liked having his own space. </p> <p>So I would personally work on getting him into the crib first and see if that helps the night wakings at all, and then if I didn't see any improvement at all within a week or two I would start CIO for night-wakings. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519708 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:09:14 +0000 Rubies 1519708@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When we sleep-trained my first daughter, we transitioned her in to her crib at the same time. New method, new bed, new start! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519705 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:09:08 +0000 swedishfish 1519705@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@hilsy85: I agree.</p> <p>Try putting her in the crib for the first stretch of night sleep. Do you have a musical mobile? R stills love hers at 9 months old. We'd play it once and wait there. Then we'd start it again and leave the room. She was able to fall asleep by herself fairly quickly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519697 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:06:51 +0000 hilsy85 1519697@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tried the crib nests in the crib? I think Mrs Blue posted about how to make them. I personally would get her transitioned to the crib and then address the wake ups. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/sleep-trainingcio-crib-transition-at-same-time#post-1519634 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:52:10 +0000 Turd Ferguson 1519634@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LO is 4.5 months now, and will be 6 months the first week of May. We've been struggling with awful night sleep since 3 months (hourly wakeups at night initially, now we'll maybe get one or two 2-3 hour stretches a night if it's a GOOD night). She's taking like, 5 thirty minute naps a day (ugh), and we've been working on "drowsy but awake" for all of them as our pedi said it'd help carry over to her nighttime wakings.</p> <p>We're going to Florida in a few weeks, but when we get back, I think we're going to be looking at sleep training, I'm thinking Ferber's CIO with checks. </p> <p>The "issue" is that she's still been in her RnP for the majority of the night, and then usually, in a fit of desperation around 1-2 in the morning, I'll bring her in bed with me. I've tried to do the crib for naps/night sleep, but can't get her to even transfer into it (obviously I've had her asleep already before putting her in it...problem 1 I'm guessing!) without totally startling herself awake.</p> <p>Should we just do the crib transition at the same time that we start sleep training (have her CIO in her crib from the get-go)? I don't want to totally overwhelm/scar her, but I don't know what else to do! </p>