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We did CIO just to go down for bed and naps. Haven't done it for motn wake ups though (LO is 6 months)! He did much better than I thought he would!

Extinction CIO. We tried checks and they just made things worse.

CIO with no checks. Night one was awful. Every night sense has been amazing. Now he asks for his bed !

We tried EVERYTHING. I think it was a progression - we did No Cry Sleep Solution, then Sleep Lady. He got better but still didn't sleep more than 3 hours straight, so we did extinction and it took 7 minutes on night 1, and it just clicked from there. I don't think it would have had we not done the other two first.

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-cry-sleep-solution-wahoo#post-671900

If we have to again for LO #2 I'll probably walk out and evaluate instead of hovering nearby at first. Now I know he will sometimes yell once then pass out. But it was great! First bedtime and nap time he went into his crib happy and babbles himself to sleep it felt like we won the lotto. It truly felt like we we were working together so he could learn to fall asleep on his own. Let me know if you have any questions.

Sleep lady shuffle, and then when she was older we started doing CIO, but we always had a time limit of 15 minutes. Also, we are terrible at sleep training and our kid still struggles with sleep. So don't listen to me. Next time I will give the kid a little more space to work it out- we intervened at the tiniest peep from the start, and it it was unnecessary. I liked the sleep lady shuffle, and it helped us go from co-bedding/her being latched on my boob constantly to her sleeping in a crib in our room, and being able to put herself to sleep or stay asleep through a transfer. We will use that method again with future little ones, particularly before a year or so (which was our general time line with our daughter, too).

@Silva: I remember telling DH in the very early days, proudly, that "I got him up and nursed him before he even started crying, really!" At least I got a good milk supply out of it, LOL.

Ferber/CIO with checks at 4 months & again at 6 months. CIO with no checks/extinction for the whole night at 8 months. Greatly prefer extinction but I don't think I could have handled it when she was younger.

Cio, no checks. It worked amazingly. She was ready at 11.5 months.

CIO, extinction/no checks. Worked amazingly after like 2 days.

ferber. worked wonderfully with charlie.

with olive we did no checks, but she cried for such a short time that we didn't need to do checks.

CIO extinction aka "figure it out, E, mama's exhausted and has hit her limit"

Thread hijack: for those who did CIO without checks, do you all have a video monitor?

@Ocean girl: Yes, we do. I don't think I could do any sleep training without it.

@Ash: You know your baby best. I honestly felt like it would be a worse experience for mine if me or DH were to go into his room but not pick him up.

Extinction.

@Ocean girl: Yes. However, the woman who taught the extinction video I watch said to turn it off and put it away. It just makes it harder on you. But, I figured as long as I was strict with myself, I was allowed to watch him just in case he like... threw up or shit all over everything or something.

We did the sleep lady shuffle with our first. For the 2nd I did a real short version of shuffle, he was much much easier to sleep train.