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I voted no CIO, but that doesn't mean he never cried. We just didn't ever let him cry for long. so it often took a long time to get him down especially around sleep regressions (4mo and 18mo in particular). But we never "sleep trained."

Our method was to always wait to get him until he was definitely awake/upset (about 5 min) so that sometimes he put himself back to sleep. Then at night we leave and come back if he gets really worked up (we can tell the difference pretty easily). Usually this works fine, but occasionally it gets out of control and we have to be stricter about not going back in so he gets back to not crying.

Didn't do CIO or any formal sleep training with our son and he started STTN around 16 months after we moved him from our bed to a floor bed in his room. He did cry a little and was upset, but my husband was in the room with him and slept next to him on the floor. He was just upset that he wasn't sleeping next to me anymore and had to get used to it. Around 18 months, he was consistently sleeping all night in his room.

Multiple kids, multiple answers- but we never sleep trained either boy. We did Put down/Pick up method, let them fuss but came and got them when they got really upset.

My oldest STTN between 12-18 months. My youngest did intermittent STTN from the start. The non-STTN nights are brutal, but he throws in a chain of happy surprises every so often and goes to bed very easily.

No CIO and she started STTN at 22 months.

My second STTN a couple times a week (usually 2) and she is 16 months. Never done CIO for her, either.

No CIO and STTN between 3-4mos. I think it was a combo of good luck and a very strictly followed bedtime routine. I hope #2 is that easy.

We did CIO and she started sleeping 12 hour stretches. Very little has disrupted her sleep for the last 18 months. She was doing 5-6 hour stretches before the 4 month regression

Assuming we're considering STTN to be something like 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., both started STTN on their own without sleep training.

No CIO and both started STTN before 6 months.

We did CIO at 7 months. It was life changing. He was already crying and waking over and over. So we did extinction (checks would make him mad) and he never cried for more than 45 minutes, and that was only once.

I know people hate to do it, but he is soooo much better off for it. He really needed to figure out how to go to sleep in his own, and how to string his sleep cycles together. And I can no longer rock him to sleep, so I'd be seriously screwed right now if he couldn't put himself to sleep.

I didn't vote because I feel like our situation isn't easily categorized there. We did CIO at 6 mo because I was not just rocking to sleep and a few times overnight, but having to hold her and rock her almost all night long and get no sleep myself. After sleep training (the very first night) she not only put herself to sleep with no rocking, but when she woke overnight she just needed me to pop her paci in and shed go back to sleep alone again. So no, at 10.5 mo she is not STTN still. But she does go to sleep alone and her wake ups are very fast now. I feel like it is a very vast improvement.

No CIO and both started STTN very early.

No cio and he sttn before six months.

Both STTN without issues on their own.

Both of mine started sttn at around 5-6weeks (10 hour stretches). No Cio with either.

We tried it at 7 months but it did not work for us. DS ended up STTN on his own at 9 months.

She did off and on from pretty early on, 8 hrs by 3 months old and 10 at about 4 months. She did 10-12 hours for awhile although I can't remember the specifics. However we did sleep train during early toddlerhood when she just couldn't seem to get back on track and was waking up a lot.

I didn't vote because we never CIO for any wakings, only for falling asleep. So, technically, I guess the answer is yes, he did sttn without CIO. When we did sleep train to fall asleep, he was already down to one waking, on his own. Shortly after we sleep trained (like 2-3 weeks), he dropped the last waking.

We did gentle sleep training (Pick up/put down) and DD STTN a couple of times between 6 mo-1yo but it's cause we were slacking on dropping the 4/5am feed + teething and leaps. Since 13 mo she's been consistently sleeping and I can see now that her wakeups clearly had good reasons. I'm glad I never cried her out: she needed comforting.

I didn't answer the poll because we did CIO at 5 months but not for STTN. We did it to stop the many excess wakeups and get her to figure out how to stay asleep on her own. So when we did CIO, we went from 8-10 random wakeups per night to 2-3 night nursing sessions. We never did CIO again and she eventually dropped each nursing session until she STTN on her own at 10 months.