Sttn without CIO

If you got your baby to sleep through the night without using CIO what method worked best for you ?

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Tbh...time. I just follow his lead pretty much. I def don't go to him as soon as he makes a sound cause sometimes he just falls back to sleep without me, but if he continues, then I'd get him. He pretty much goes back to sleep right after eating, so I guess it's not that bad.

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How old is your baby ?

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Same as PP. Nothing else worked and I didn't want to do CIO. He STTN on his own at 8.5 months. I was going to do the sleep shuffle method by Kim West but didn't have to because one night he just decided he was ready.

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White noise machine and a sleep sack. She needed to feel enclosed but not swaddled. And both of these things I introduced at 5mos after she moved from my bedroom to her crib.

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co sleeping is what worked for us. both kids sleep straight through the night.

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Both of my kids were STTN at just a few weeks old and I NEVER had to CIO with either of them. I just followed their cues and when I saw a pattern develop with their eating and sleeping I ran with it and started to create routines around those patterns. At 6 weeks they were STTN from about 9:30-10 to 8-8:30am. Around 8 weeks they switched to 7:30-8pm to about 7:30-8am. As soon as they STTN without needing a bottle that was the LAST time I gave them one.............even if they happened to have a random night where they woke up.

ETA - DD was in her own crib as 12 weeks, DS about 6-7 wks old. Both had sound machines in their rooms and used a sleep sack.

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My first sttn at 11 weeks on his own. I didn't do anything.

With my second, we did CIO around 6 months because she just wasn't going to do it on her own. It was very easy and quick!

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Time

My ds didn't sttn till over a year old

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Both kids it was time... My DD is 6 months and she has just recently in the past few weeks has been giving me consistent nights where she sleeps through.

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My DS is 5 months and he slowly slept through the night. He was up every 3 hours from birth to 2 months old, then from 2 to 3 he was up only once a night and then STTN the night by 3 months.

We set a pattern starting around 8 weeks, stuck to it and he fell right into it. We take him a bath around 6:30-7, he has a bottle, we read him a story and I put him to bed after that. He is usually in bed by 7:30 and he falls asleep on his own within 20 min. Sometimes he has trouble and I go in and he holds my hand to relax. I so far haven't had to pick him up to get him to sleep since we started the pattern.

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Btw, when I say sstn I mean like 4 or 5 hr uninterrupted stretches.

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CIO was the only way we got DS to STTN. He is now 20 months and in full out sleep regression mode with a cold. I have literally not slept well in over 2 years!

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DD was STTN at 10 weeks old without CIO. No method used but we did have her sleeping in our room in a bassinet. Not sure if that helped.

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We've been co sleeping but the bed is too small and she's kicking and waking up every hour or so probably because I disturb her. I think she needs her own sleep space.

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Swaddling (can't say enough about the Woombie! They have a convertible one so you can have baby's arms out but their body still swaddled) and white noise worked wonders for all of our 3 kids. They STTN at 3 weeks, 5 weeks, and 2.5 weeks respectively. I highly recommend Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp. That really helped us. We used his white noise CD too.

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She's 5.5 months ,isn't she too old for the swaddle?

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Nothing.
1st-6 weeks
2nd-10 weeks
The 2nd I had more problems as he got older and had to do things for him to go to bed (bringing him back to bed for a few nights without speaking and just walking away) but it worked.

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co sleeping is what worked for us. both kids sleep straight through the night.

This.

Both of my kids were STTN a little before 3 months old.

Are you actually able to get any sleep with them in the bed? My DS will only sleep on my belly the few times I let him sleep in our bed and I find it so uncomfortable to sleep on my back. Plus, he is all over the place.

I'm not going to lie - some nights were rough. We would all be tossing and turning trying to find a comfortable spot. However, we were in a Queen size bed. Once we got a king size bed it made a world of difference.

DS was like your DS - always had to be ON me one way or another. I just went with it, he eventually would move into another position.

I think you get use to being kicked and prodded all night long because we eventually stopped waking up from it all. I know a lot people don't like having their kids in their bed, but we love it. I think DH & I are now the ones who don't want them out of our bed