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My son always cries but it's usually only 2-3 minutes, but we get 15 or 20 every once in awhile. I do go back in if his crying seems out of the ordinary. But it doesn't really matter what I do, he will cry when I put him down, even if he was asleep first, so I don't see an alternative. (He's almost 2.)

Could she be overtired? Is there any difference if you put her to bed half an hour or even an hour earlier?

Yes! Definitely us! We did CIO 8 months ago and she used to go down so easily right when we did it. It's gotten progressively worse and she cries for at least 5-8 minutes at night every single night.

@brownie: Yup, baby whisperer! Our LO is the same way. If he isn't alseep from his bedtime bottle when we put him down he needs to cry about 10 minutes to fall asleep.

Yes. It's the worst after her routine is disrupted. Nap time is usually easy but bedtime gets a lot of whine/crying protest. Our life will calm down in a month and I'm hoping being able to keep a much better schedule and transitioning to a big bed will help.

Yep, he cries 3-8 minutes every night. It's been really hard because it makes me feel like we are doing sleep training wrong, and I see so many stories about babies happily going down for the night. But sometimes he will go in his crib without tears for 30 minutes, then suddenly cry for 5 minutes, then fall asleep, so I do think it's just how he winds down.

This blog post helped me feel like it was more normal:

http://www.babysleepsite.com/sleep-training/knowing-when-youre-done-sleep-training/