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We also did CIO. It was hard but she sleeps so well now. Here's the link to the thread I started which includes some other CIO stories. I know it isn't for everyone but it did work really well.

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cio-questions

How old is you lo?

My kids are 10 months (today!) and were still eating and waking a lot at night, with a good amount of cosleeping mixed in to get them to settle. We decided to night wean and sleep train starting on Friday night using the Sleep Sense Program, and it has been amazing! DD has slept all night without needing us starting on night 2, and DS only had two quick wakeups by last night (night 3). Naps are improved too, longer and going down without any fussing by yesterday.

We use the stay in the room method, so the kids go in their cribs awake and we sit next to the crib until they fall asleep. You can talk to them, touch them, etc when they cry, which was really nice for our family. You just don't actively touch or talk them to sleep. Then over the days you move your chair further away in the room and lessen your talk/touch, as they get better at putting themselves to sleep.

I highly recommend if you aren't on board with leave and check or extinction style cio. I've been floored at how quickly my kids have responded to this method. But I think we were all ready for it too, and that played a big role in being successful. A month or two or three ago, we just weren't ready. And we had an official ok from our ped to night wean as of 9 months.

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/no-cry-sleep-solution-wahoo. We've had good luck with no cry sleep solution.

We did CIO, but it was really easy for us. She only cried for 10 minutes the first night, then nothing. We can see that she sits in her crib and plays with her paci's most nights.

Also, our LO wakes up in the middle of the night, but just to pop a paci back in and go back to asleep. Does your DD take a paci? Maybe that would get her to not nurse so much.

Subscribing as we need to sleep train without CIO.

We used the baby whisperer method both times and it worked great for us. It takes lots of time and patience though. My DD is 9 months old now and is consistently sleeping through the night now. She was getting up 2x a night until I finally gave in and decided to do the pick up/put down method. It took 3 days but it worked. Hooray!

@MarieJ: yup now that it has been a little while, I've reflected a bit more and I still feel good about it. I feel like I helped him learn instead of forcing the point, and when he does seem to need me I don't feel like I'm messing anything up or confusing him by going to him or picking him up. I don't think there is anything wrong with CIO and I usually do let him fuss/cry if he's not hysterical with naps, but this is what worked best for us for night sleep and teaching him how to fall asleep on his own. Let me know if I can help at all!

We also did CIO...took us a lot longer (probably around 2-3 weeks) until there was zero crying at night, but he goes down in less than 5 minutes now and no crying at all. If he does wake up at night, it's b/c there's something wrong (teeth is the main problem).

@MarieJ: I would say that CIO is not right for every baby. DH doesnt do night wakings because he gets up early, so he left the sleep training up to me and just followed along with the plan I set down. So yes, he did help. I would say the longest she ever cried was 30-40 minutes. Most of the time it was less than 10. She goes down every night without too much fuss and even if she doesnt sleep right away, she sits and talks to herself. No crying. It is hard to do and it takes a commitment, but it worked well for us. I would say its worth a try. Just remember, if you do try it, to stick to your guns and keep going for at LEAST 3-4 days. The first few are the hardest.

We went from 2-3 wakings to none. She sleeps 6:30-9/9:30am.