I'm nervous and have been trying to follow other recent posts on CIO. I used to feel nervous about night weaning but since LO is 3 weeks shy from turning a year I should be confident that he does not need to eat at night, right? I kept waiting him out because he would do a stretch where he only woke up at 4 or 5 eat then go back to sleep at least til 7 but things just got progressively worse and he never does that anymore. The bad nights (multiple wakings-either they take 5 min or 1 hr to get him sleeping again) outweigh the good and we all need more restful sleep! So usually, even on a bad night, he will go to sleep at 8:15 and not fully wake up for the day until at least 7, usually 7:30 or 8. So do I just pick 7 as the "not until" for getting him out of his crib/nursing? If you sleep trained your baby around this age please tell me your story!
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I should add that he's not waking up to eat each of those times. I have mostly only fed him once after about 3:30, sometimes again at 6 if he wakes just to keep him sleeping.
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This is just how I feel on cry it out. Start small-maybe 10 mins at a time. If I were driving and DS was screaming for 10 mins, I wouldn't pull over to soothe him, so if you set your LO in a crib for 10 and they keep crying they'll live, gradually increase by 5-10 mins until they begin to self-soothe. At your lo's age it should be easy to place a lovey in the crib if they don't use a paci.
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That's what I'm thinking-we already give him some time but when we've tried to leave after checking on him he seems more hysterical. I guess I'm not sure whether doing complete CIO or CIO with checks will work better for him.
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