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Good luck!!! You can do it!

Be strong, give it your best shot to stay committed...it is life changing. For me a few rough days/nights are so worth it compared to months/years of bad sleep habits

Good luck!

Good luck!! We sleep trained at 6 months and things went great up until now (8 months)... She's learned to pull up and stand in the crib and then she can't sit down on her own OR she'll fall over and get scared/hit her head...so we are back to square one.

You can do it!! What helped us was to have a plan so you aren't trying to make decisions on the spur of the moment...like whether you will do checks, if so, when and then how long will you let LO cry for. CIO was life changing for us...we did it because LO couldn't fall asleep on her own but it took one day and we have had no regressions! I would do it again in a heartbeat. Fingers crossed for you

@Chillybear: it depends on her personality. For L, me being in the room made it worse. Other kids do better.

I first worked on CIO for putting down to sleep, and then once we had that down I started CIO for night wakeups (one at a time).

How old is your LO? Can they sit up-stand up in the crib. I would try hiding in the room so LO doesn't get use to you being there. Seeing you could make it worse. Checks didn't work with my LO.

Hugs it is hard. Have wine, a plan and stick with it! Three nights is all it took for us.

@Chillybear: I'm glad that she is asleep! I had to do extinction because she gets pissed if she can see me. It gets better. Today is day 4 and she only screamed for a minute before rolling on her side and taking her paci. Last night was the hardest.

ETA: she isn't standing, which I imagine will throw a huge kink into things.

@Chillybear: oh man. I am sorry. I have not done this before, but could you rub her back to soothe her when you go in? That might help (or not,..just throwing out ideas) Good luck MOTN. :good luck:

@ms.janedoe: I am so bummed to hear that you are back to square one I hope that your night is going well.

@Chillybear: c was hard for us. I couldn't so CIO. My husband had to sleep train her.

It made her hysterical. It was like she thought we were leaving her and never coming back. If we did checks, if was like a big tease. I could see in her eyes, she thought we were leaving and why wouldn't we hug her? And if we did, she didn't want to let go.

The only thing that worked was sitting in her room until she fell asleep. It took awhile. We had to build trust.

Now she sleeps without us just fine. She kicks is out of her room and tells us to go away.

For me, it helped to have a stopwatch on my phone! And a few good trashy shoes on DVR. And wine!

@Chillybear: Sleep training is rough! It sounds like she's on her way.

It seems like you just have to try a few approaches and see what works best for your family and your kid. For us, the pure cry-it-out method didn't work because she would get hysterical and I was a mess. But staying in the room and soothing her didn't work either because she would take over an hour to fall asleep (sounds like your LO is much better with this method!). We ended up doing the Ferber method and it finally worked.

It is so hard, especially those first few nights, but it's worth it! Good luck!

That doesn't sound so bad for a first night! It sounds like there was progress. Hopefully tonight will be even better!