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That is exactly what we did, for exactly the same reasons. Worked fine for us-- after a few days she figured out how to fall asleep by herself, and could go back to sleep if she woke up within a few hours of falling asleep, but not after that first stretch, when I would need to go in and nurse her. She kept up with the one, sometimes 2, MOTN feedings until a few weeks ago when she started phasing them out on her own. Now, at 9 months, she STTN most nights!

I feel like the falling asleep and MOTN wake ups are two different issues that need to be tackled differently.

@bunnymommy: yes, we did CIO it sucked, but she cried for less time than it was taking to sooth her. I did feel so bad but Dh reminded me that she was pretty miserable whether we were rocking her or alone in the crib, so we may as well leave her on the crib so the crying would do some good.

For us it worked better to do nights first, but keep up with nursing to sleep for naps, then once she was good with bedtime, tackle naps.

@bunnymommy: good luck! It wasn't as bad as I feared, and like @Elderberrygin: it only took a few nights.

@bunnymommy: We didn't do naps, just night sleep. She was in daycare so it just wasn't possible to nap train. Her naps improved on their own, she just needed to grow out of her cat nap phase on her own.

@redsmarties: Yeah, I tried weaning her from the MOTN feeds but shortening them by a minute or two-- she did not care for that. I finally decided it was easier to continue getting up for that one feeding until she dropped it on her own, than forcing the issue, and I'm THRILLED to tell you she dropped it right before 9 months. So, I truly hope your LO does the same.

This is what we did. CIO for MOTN wakings was never something that I thought too hard about--we were wanting to transition him to his crib for both naps and bedtime.

I think at a year we were still at 2 night nursing sessions, and by the time he weaned at 15 months it was 1. He still wakes up sometimes, randomly, usually because he's super wet or (usually) has lost his paci.