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@hilsy85: I agree.

Try putting her in the crib for the first stretch of night sleep. Do you have a musical mobile? R stills love hers at 9 months old. We'd play it once and wait there. Then we'd start it again and leave the room. She was able to fall asleep by herself fairly quickly.

We did a modified CIO to transition him to the crib, and didn't address the night-wake ups at all (I was BFing on demand, and he was still demanding it often then). But after a week or two in the crib he slowly started sleeping in longer stretches on his own. I think he really liked having his own space.

So I would personally work on getting him into the crib first and see if that helps the night wakings at all, and then if I didn't see any improvement at all within a week or two I would start CIO for night-wakings.

@ms.janedoe: is she still swaddled?

@ms.janedoe: are you doing that because she hates because swaddled or because you're trying to swaddle wean? I second the merlins magic sleep suit if you are trying to swaddle wean, although that won't really help with the initial "put down" shock, it will help her not startle quite as much.

Hi again! No real advice, just sympathy. LO has been in her crib for a while so she's ok there, but she is a total swaddle junkie., so I too have been wondering whether it's better to address these issues one at a time, or all at once.

@ms.janedoe: no input on the other stuff, just wanted to say I was going insane at that age and my LO's sleep got much better naturally during the day at 5.5 months and at night with a different sleep training method. Hang in there!

Okay so we decided to start co sleeping instead of doing the crib transition for now (she was waking up too often and frankly I can't be a good mama after nights like that), but I've heard numerous success stories about doing three strikes. Basically, you start the baby off in the crib and wait for three wakeups before moving them to rnp, your bed, whatever. As they get used to the crib, the idea is that it will take longer and longer to reach three strikes. Eventually, and hopefully sooner rather than later, they won't get to three strikes and will sleep in their own bed. My LO is going through a bad sleep patch now, so we actually decided to move her to our bed first to get her used to sleeping on a flat surface instead of the rnp incline. We plan to implement three strikes again once we are ready to try the crib. Good luck!!

@ms.janedoe: this is my original thread about it - http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-cry-sleep-solution-wahoo if you have any questions feel free to wall me. it was, and continues to me, a great experience for us.

@ms.janedoe: I mean, it depends on your style I guess. I find comfort in reading books, so I found it helpful. That is the gist of it though!

@ms.janedoe: i'm sure your library has it! As far as I remember, it's an immediate response. At the very beginning I picked him up the instant he made noise, but eventually found that it worked better to walk out calmly and down to the kitchen - which took approximately 20 seconds. Sometimes he would squawk and then roll on to his tummy and that was it. That's what worked for us at least!