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I was there. This is why LO got moved to his crib and room. We had a rough few weeks but he almost immediately started sleeping longer stretches.

Ooooh, this was us. I'd nurse her to sleep and put her in the RnP. If I was lucky I'd get a 2, maaaaaybe 3 hour stretch (super rare), then I'd nurse her and try putting her back. She'd be up within the hour and I'd then just bring her into bed out of exhaustion. She'd sleep with me and basically be latched on ALL night long. We'd wake like, every hour to resituate/switch sides. It sucked.

At 6 months I sleep trained (Ferber CIO) and did the crib transition all at once. It was a rough couple of days to start (with a regression about 2 weeks in), but now she goes down with zero crying, and, for the most part, only has one wakeup around 12-1 to eat (she goes down super early, at like, 6:00-6:30). We ARE still struggling with some super early wake ups, but I figure we'll get there eventually!

@MrsCastro: Tonight is night 29 (since we started). It's been just about 2 weeks that she's gone down without a peep. I'd say the first 4 days were pretty rocky, then it was decent, then she had that like, 3 day regression from hell and like I said, we've had about 2 weeks of pretty decent sleep!

It really wasn't a transition at all. I did it all at once...I felt bad, but had no other option, I was at the end of my rope.

@MrsCastro: Oh no problem! Let me know if you have any questions or just need someone to vent to, I know how awful and isolating it can feel (especially when everyone seems to have an opinion in what you/your LO "should" be doing...).

For me CIO was a last ditch effort, I of course didn't WANT to do it, but we both needed it. I felt like I was in so deep and trying to address each problem to make it a gradual process seemed impossible (try keeping her in the RnP longer each night until she wasn't in bed, move the RnP into the nursery, then move her into the crib, etc). Yeah it may have worked eventually, but I felt like I had already sunk so much time, effort, and myself into her sleep I was just done. Selfish? Maybe, but as I just plopped her in her crib and walked out, it was SO worth the handful of shitty nights.