CIO and the standing baby

[mlvmd]

Any tips or tricks on CIO with a baby who stands and isn't great about getting back down? DS2 just turned 7 months.

DS2's sleep is worse than it ever has been so I want to do CIO at bedtime. He has recently figured out how to stand up in bed and hangs on for dear life but doesn't seem to know how to get back down. Will he figure it out? Am I doomed to even crappier sleep until he figures this out?

[gibbinator]

Well I'm not sure about the CIO procedure, but yeah learning to stand = crappy sleep until they learn to sit. Currently I'm in baby flips onto stomach the second he wakes up but won't sleep on his stomach or roll back over Hell. So I feel ya. I just flip him back and more or less hold him down with my hand until he settles back to sleep.

[mlt]

That's a hard one. We usually would go in and lay him down without making noise, no patting, no soothing. Just grab him and lay him down and walk back out. Otherwise I'm pretty sure he would have fallen asleep standing up.

[loskadoodle]

Yeah that was a tough time for us. No advice

[lo]

I was using the Merlin suit at that age and she couldn't roll over in it, let alone stand!

[lolo]

Please read Ferber's book. CIO is not a good way for your child to learn to go from standing to sitting etc in the crib. Ferber specifically advises against this.

[magpie]

I remember this time, but it's like I blocked it from my memory. We did CIO earlier (around 6 months), but I do vaguely remember the learning to stand thing messing up sleep and having to go in and lay her back down again and again. I think it was very short lived though (a few days maybe?) because she learned how to lay back down pretty soon after. Hope it goes quickly for you too!

[jewel]

Prayer. Booze.

We sleep-trained around 5.5 months, and it was glorious heaven for about a month, and then he learned to stand CIO did not work at all during this time, even going back in to lay him down every few minutes. I quickly gave up, and went back to rocking, nursing, or doing whatever to get him to sleep.

Once he was reliably sitting on his own (at least a few weeks later), we re-sleep-trained. It hasn't been as great as it was before he learned to stand, but it's mostly working again.