What is your baby's sleep like now and how old are they?
What no-cry solutions/techniques did you use?
Just curious. 
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LO is nearly 6months. She can fall asleep on her own with a pacifier but not inside her crib. if I put her in our bed while she is sleepy and give her a pacifier she will fall asleep and then I transfer her to her crib. Its not ideal but its a start. ON days when she is fussy I might have to rub her head or her cheeks, that makes her really sleepy for some reason lol.
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We haven't done CIO per se, but I do let him cry a little bit before he falls asleep. He never cries for more than a few minutes and then falls asleep on his own in his crib. I used to nurse him to sleep but haven't done that for the past few weeks. He will be 5 months next week. He still doesn't nap very long (usually 45 min to an hour in the morning and then 30 mins the rest of the day). He goes to bed at 7 and is usually in his crib for 12 hours with 1 or 2 wakes....one long stretch usually of at least 7 hours sometimes 8 or 9. When he wakes at night, I see if his fussing turns to actual crying and there is usually one instance overnight where he goes back to sleep on his own.
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My LO is 14 months. She was naturally an awesome night time sleeper. From 2 1/2 months she slept 12 hours straight, no nap training needed.
Nap time is a different issue though. She was an awful napper. She needed movement to sleep and I would have to walk her in the stroller, do car naps, put her in the swing, etc and she'd still fuss herself to sleep. Until magically at 8 months DH put her in her crib one day and she went straight to sleep. Since then, she's been a good crib napper too!
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@winniebee: Wow, his sleep has gotten awesome!
I ask these questions because my LO's sleep is slowly deteriorating... yet AGAIN.
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@artbee: Wow, that is awesome about the switch at 8 months!
I usually get LO to sleep in the swing too, and then am able to transfer her to her crib after she falls asleep. -
Both my girls were non-CIO. Lala is 2 yrs 4 months and sleeps through the night. She started doing that at around 20 months or so... but it wasn't until I nighttime weaned her that she stopped waking up. Her wake ups were annoying but she'd always go back to sleep right away if she got some breastfeeding in.
M. has been sleeping through the night since about 3 months old with a little bump at the 4 month sleep regression.
We learned some stuff with Lala and became very very consistent with M. which seems to have worked like a charm. I think I might have a blog post about it.
I did glean a few things from Elizabeth Pantley's "No Cry Sleep Solution", but ultimately just went with our own plan
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@Mrs. Jacks: I would love to hear more about this! I am always interested in hearing about alternatives to CIO, as my educational background has led me to be a bit skeptical of it... but hasn't offered any other approaches!
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@mjane: I'm way behind on my blogging but I'll try and add it to my list.
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olive just turned 1 and she wakes up once a night. she goes down beautifully for naps though since 8 months when we nap trained, but she didn't cry so i don't consider it cio.
at 8 months she was still waking up 3 times a night, and until very recently she was waking up twice a night... although a month+ of travel and sickness did throw her off.
anyway she's at 1 wake up now, but it's on the verge of sleeping through the night! some nights she does 6:30pm - 5:30am, wakes up for a feed and goes right back down until I wake her up at 7:30. she likes to sleep in.
i just waited it out and think she will drop that final wake up on her own soon.
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: That's lucky! My LO is such a light sleeper. If I blink too loud she'd wake up. I could never ever transfer her.
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We were going to start CIO at 4 months but we got lucky and LO started sleeping through the night at 8 weeks. She is now 40 weeks and has woken up twice at night since then...she was really sick both times. I am currently reading the sleep books because I want to be prepared if things suddenly change or if our second LO needs to do CIO!
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: I've cursed myself in sure!! His sleep is by no means predictable but it's decent. Lay night he slept 645-1045, ate, then slept til 630. So these days I can't complain about overnight sleep.
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My son is 2 1/2 years old and has been a really good sleeper and napper since he was an infant. My DD is 10 weeks old and she's sleeping through the night already. Last night, she slept from 9:30 - 8:30a without one wakeup! Not even sure if that's healthy or not! lol. My ped said to just let her sleep. But I feel like I should feed or something!
I didn't use CIO methods but I did use the baby whisperer method which involved very gentle sleep training techniques.
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@banana: so you can have two kids who are good sleepers! thank goodness. everyone keeps telling me that my #2 will be an awful sleeper!
We didn't sleep train and DD started sleeping 11-12 hours at 8 weeks. I don't think I used any particular method but we did put her in the crib, in her own room, after a few weeks and I think that helped because we didn't react to every noise that she made so she learned how to put herself back to sleep.
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Baby X is 11 months. He started sleeping through the night most nights about 6 weeks ago. We did a little pick-up-put-down, to help him learn to sleep in the crib (and not in our bed or in our arms) around 4.5 months. Also, around 6 months, Baby X started being able to put his pacifier in his mouth on his own, and then his sleep got way better, but he was still waking 3 or so times in the night.
What helped him start sleeping through the night was:
1. DH & I learning not to respond unless Baby X was insistent-- we stopped responding to sleep cries and learned only to respond to legitimate "I need someone's help!" cries.
2. moving to his own room at 7 months (he had been our room until then)
3. giving him Tylenol at night when he's teething-- and paying more attention to when he's starting a round of teething. I didn't want to medicate for teething, but really, he's in pain and this helps him sleep.
4. a glass of wine before bed (for me!) and a late bed time (for me) a couple of nights in a row. I ended up sleeping so hard and not hearing him that there may have been an accidental CIO-- I can't be sure-- but he couldn't have been crying that hard if so, so it's hard to say what happened or how it happened, but we have all slept a lot better since then. -
If you're referring to sleep training to teach your LO how to fall asleep on their own, we've fortunately never had to do that as our LO has always been great at putting himself to sleep at night. In the early days, after nursing, I would just pass him off to DH and he would put LO into his crib less and less drowsy. There was absolutely no crying. Now he is wide awake and smiling at us before going to bed and he falls asleep in 2-10 minutes.
We did do CIO for a nightwaking that LO picked up on vacation at 4 months. It took one night of crying and one night of fussing and it was over. He is a great sleeper now at 7.5 months but we are very into schedules and routines and prioritizing his sleep.
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13 months, still 1-4 night wakeups to nurse, nurses from 15-60 minutes each time. Yeah. It sucks. Also, I've just started losing my supply, either due to pregnancy or just bad luck. So that means that she wakes up at 4, nurses on and off (which I can't sleep through), but can't get full enough to fall back asleep, so then is up at 5. So I've been up since 5 today.
It sucks. I'm very opposed to CIO, but my husband and I tried one instance of her crying with him over night. 20 minutes of hysteria later, and I just nursed her. I don't think that it would work even if I weren't opposed to it, which I still really am. But if I get sleep deprived enough, we may try again.
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We never sleep trained or did CIO. LO is 16 months. He sleeps 11-12 hours a night with no wakings, and takes one nap (1.5-3 hours).
He did not STTN until about 12 months; months 9-12 he generally woke up once, and before that, usually twice.For the record, I *kinda* tried CIO to get rid of that one persistent wake-up, but he seemed to be the kind of baby who would cry himself into a frenzy. So it wasn't worth it to me, and I figured he would probably STTN on his own fairly soon. And he did, thankfully. A solid routine and the fact that he's now weaned also help a lot.
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