Have you tried CIO? Anonymous vote

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No judgements, please.

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I will probably get judged for this but one time my son was inconsolable. Wouldn’t nap, had already eaten, and had a clean diaper. There was no evidence of any pain or reason why he would be crying. I think he was just so tired but was refusing to fall asleep. So I put him in his crib and walked away to clear my head a bit so I didn’t get overwhelmed. Did a load of dishes, switched over the laundry. All while he cried away in his crib. After about 10 minutes or so, he calmed down and fell asleep on his own. That was the first nap he slept in his crib at 3.5 months and we never looked back. He sleeps great now. I know my experience isn’t what everyone else may have or are comfortable with, but kids around this age are starting to do more independently, they play on their own and can comfort themselves. As long as you are meeting their needs physical needs and loving them and showing affection, a little crying and learning to self soothe doesn’t do them any harm in my opinion.

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We aren’t comfortable with true CIO. Like another poster mentioned we do a control cry. Like we let her babble and coo in crib. If she starts a tired cry we will let it happen for 5 min then go in and pick up resettle then put her back down. If she starts wailing we go in and settle her. Everyone has to do what their comfortable with.

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We do a controlled CIO. We put baby down awake and let her babble and fuss as long as she’s not screaming. If she starts screaming we let her cry for 15 minutes max. If she goes past that I get her, hold her, rock her, and once she’s calm we start over. Most nights she goes down without a fight.

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We're currently doing Ferber method. During the day, we only went up like once or twice during the week. For nights, its a different story. It sucks hearing them CIO but it's for their own good. In a transition of a week shes been sleeping so much better! The night before we started doing it she was waking up every 3-4 hours... i was so exhausted!! So far her longest night time sleep has ben 8.5 hours! Shes been taking longer naps too! Its just so much easier! The first few days are rough because you just never hear them cry like that and you're gonna cry too! I've heard that the shortest ferber training takes 3 days, and the longest 2 weeks. We"re on day 7 and its gotten so much easier. I'm so happy and impressed with the results thus far. I wish we had done a bit more research,  but we're learning from our mistakes. And when she wakes up, she wakes up with the biggest smile! It's not all bad, I promise.

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Thank you all who shared your stories, you gave me the courage to try sleep training! and baby now sleeps for 12h in the crib

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