Cry it out?

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Anyone tried CIO yet? We didn't do it until 4 months with my daughter, my son is nearly 3 months. I kind of want to try it... 🤔 curious if anyone else has tried it yet and if it worked?
Edit - I should clarify that I follow the "graduated extinction" method where you check in with baby after short periods of time which get longer until baby falls asleep (or you give up), and only for naps and the initial night sleep. I always nurse back to sleep if baby wakes up in the middle of the night. That's what we did with our daughter at 4 months. So we're not doing the "just leave baby to cry until they fall asleep thing."

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I let her cry for 5 minutes before going in at night. But I never let her cry to fall asleep. We rock her for naps and bedtime. If we need to do any form of CIO we will wait until 6 months.

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Absolutely NOOO CIO until at the very minimum 6m. It really shouldn’t be done at all. No sleep training until 6m. Under 6m especially at 3/4 you can definitely do some mental and emotional damage to baby.

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Also. Sleep is developmental. You can’t force baby to sleep that young. You can’t train baby to sleep that young. 3m is still a newborn!!! Baby cries for many reasons.

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CIO isn’t meant for babies under six months. Due to the lack of understanding object permanence. Infants especially those under six months cry when they’re in need anything over five minutes can be detrimental.

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My husband let my 13 week old cry for about 10 minutes last night while I was working out and she ended up falling asleep. I think we’re going to start officially sleep training soon. We waited until 8-9 months with my first and I’m so ready to do it sooner with this one.

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Yeah no. Never did for my oldest either. If he’s crying it’s for a reason is how I see it. Even if it’s that he’s just sleepy and wants to be held. But I’m not going to just let my kid scream bloody murder for 30 min or whatever

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Following

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My girl is only 11 weeks and still in a bassinet in our bed. I tried her on her crib one night thus week and she only lasted 1 hour. Once she’s ready for her crib then we will start thinking about some type of gentle sleep training. In an ideal world babies would all sleep through the night by 4 mo, but the reality is that sleeping that long all alone is a learned skill and some just need more time than others. Once mine is down to 1-2 wakings a night I’ll feel like a new woman!

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Maybe not quite yet.  You're prob gonna get bashed for cio but we did it with our first and will eventually with this baby.   I modified it a little but with our first and will with our second as well.   But I'd prob waot until 4mo or even a little longer but you know your baby and when they're "ready"

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We let ours cry for 15 mins once (kind of on accident because I told my husband to grab him and he didn’t realize) and he fell asleep but hasn’t doesn’t it since. We’re going to try the Ferber method in about a week 😬

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