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That is awesome!!

@grizz: yep we've had great results. It was exhausting at first and so hard on my back but I felt really good about it. We have had lasting success in my opinion! 10.5 months now. Let me know if you have any questions.

We used it but didnt have really good success. We did use the tips to come up with a solid bedtime routine though. My LO never responded well to drowsy but awake. If I layed her down drowsy she would scream immediately. So I had to pick her back up 100 times. I like the philosophy though

It was our best resource, but it isn't fast. It took a lot of patience, but we are very happy with the results!

I'm really intrigued, since I'm not interested in CIO but would like to encourage my little guy to sleep longer stretches. Does anyone know where a summary is online?

I read it but I don't have the patience that you need for it to work!

@.twist.: Oh shoot, you know what? I just realized that I had the two mixed up! So yep, just ignore my last comment about the author, everyone... The No Cry Sleep Solution was more helpful than the Baby Whisperer, it gave much more tips rather than just one method that it insisted was the right way. Neither worked for me ultimately, but we did get some good tips for calming and such from The No Cry Sleep Solution.

@sotofamilia: @maybebaby: My interpretation of the premise (I also read Baby Whisperer so who knows what came from where, and it was a while ago) is that you do what you've been doing, in a tapering off process. So if you've been rocking to sleep, you rock to 99% asleep, but them in the crib. If they cry, pick back up, rock, repeat. Repeat repeat repeat until they fall asleep on their own, in the crib.

I think at first I maybe took it a little too literally and picked him back up the instant he peeped. Once we got more in the thick of it, he will sometimes squawk at being put in his crib but if I walk out and close the door, walk down to the kitchen, and back - he is quiet and asleep. Even now, sometimes he'll do this.

With that being said, it was EXHAUSTING and it was so tempting to just rock him to sleep all the way after picking him up for the 5th time. But, I'm glad I didn't. After a few days, he stopped fighting the whole process and really seemed to "get" that we were working together and bedtime went from a screaming fight to a peaceful, albeit tiring, process.

After maybe 3 weeks, he was going in drowsy with eyes open (probably right before he was 6 months) and a week or so after that, going in wide awake. I then used the same process for naps.

I NEVER thought I'd be able to just set him down awake. Never. It felt so foreign and far away. But it was worth the work, I'm happy with how it went, and we've never experienced any classic regressions or had to "retrain" per se. I never have to hesitate to go in if he does wake (has been mostly STTN since 9 months, 10.5 months now) and feel like I'm "ruining" something by comforting him when his tooth is cutting or he dropped his blanky out.

@scg00387: Do you think this would still work for a baby A's age? At 11 months I feel we've left it too long but poor girl has a sore throat at the moment and sounds very croaky so I don't want to make her upset on a night but in the same breath, we need to get her off relying on nursing for all sleep. Makes me sad, I love our cuddly night time nursing sessions but she really has to start to learn how to sleep on her own.

@travelgirl1: I don't know why not; it might just take longer because she is more set in her ways? But maybe not? Doesn't hurt to try;

@.twist.: I think I started at 5 months? I know for my LO before that he was frequently crying because of gas bubbles, so I didn't attempt anything until I was more confident that he was ready. I think sleep is developmental like everything else and different babies reach the ability to self soothe an fall asleep on their own at different ages. Two other things that happened around that same time that also helped were introducing a lovey and he slept on his tummy.