Ferber. Tried at six months and it wasn't the right time for us so we stopped after a few nights. It worked very well when he was 9 months and he has been STTN since. (Maybe an odd wakeup here and there).
Post by maebyfunke on Jun 27, 2014 14:28:22 GMT -5
Ferber at 1 year. It worked like a charm. He cried for about 25 minutes the first night and was pretty much sleeping through at 1 week for both naps and night time. We were lucky that he took to it so quickly and easily; I expected it to be a nightmare for me.
We Ferbered at 18 months to get him to go to sleep without me lying on the floor next to him, and to eliminate the off-and-on night wake ups he was still having. It went really well. Night 1 was 55 mins of crying, night 2 was 30 mins, night 3 was 5, then a few weeks of whimpering. He's been a great sleeper every since. We're all SO MUCH HAPPIER. He is a much better kid with a full night's sleep, and we're better parents. Win-win.
I will definitely sleep training earlier with hypothetical kid #2. I'll wait until I think they're not teething, and do it. Probably 9ish months I think.
Post by dulcemariamar on Jun 27, 2014 14:39:10 GMT -5
We did it at 9 months but it didn't work because we tried to move her from our room to her bedroom and ST at the same time. Big failure.
So we did it again at 12 months. CIO no checks. It took about 4 days. We also did naps at the same time. We moved her about two weeks later to her bedroom after we came home from vacation with no issue.
The main reason why I am glad we waited until she was older to ST was because I knew that she could go the whole night without eating. If I had done it earlier, I would be dealing with night feeds or the doubt that she might be hungry. You can ST when they are younger but for me it was just easier to do it when she was older but I would have totally done it earlier if I was dealing with multiple wakeups.
Small t/j: is it possible to ST while still sleeping in the same room? We probably have a month or 2 left of living in a one bedroom space but I feel like STing is the only way I'll get him into his crib.
Small t/j: is it possible to ST while still sleeping in the same room? We probably have a month or 2 left of living in a one bedroom space but I feel like STing is the only way I'll get him into his crib.
We did, I guess informal CIO at 5 months to get her down to one 4am wakeup (to eat, she goes back down as soon as I put her back in the crib). The longest she cried was 12 minutes, so we never did any checks and whatnot.
Ferber - We did 3, 5, 10, 15 minute checks the first night. Took about 45 minutes to fall asleep. Second Night - checks at 10 minutes, about 20 minutes to fall asleep. Third night he fell right to sleep.
I think that we really just lucked out and sleep trained at the right time. We changed several things about his routine and it must have just clicked. He was about 6 months, 1 week.
Naps - he suddenly didn't want to nap on me anymore so I put him in his crib and he just went to sleep.
Things that worked for us - Wubanub - this was suggested by a friend, I laughed it off, but we got one at a shower and it worked. My kid's main problem was the pacifier staying in his mouth. Once he could reach it and it didn't roll away he was set. We also started really getting serious about solids, we started setting a much earlier bedtime (8:30).
In a matter of a few days he went from up 6-8 times a night to sleeping 12 hours straight almost every night. It was amazing and I still go to bed every night thinking that this might be the night that he stops sleeping so well.
Ferber - We did 3, 5, 10, 15 minute checks the first night. Took about 45 minutes to fall asleep. Second Night - checks at 10 minutes, about 20 minutes to fall asleep. Third night he fell right to sleep.
I think that we really just lucked out and sleep trained at the right time. We changed several things about his routine and it must have just clicked. He was about 6 months, 1 week.
Naps - he suddenly didn't want to nap on me anymore so I put him in his crib and he just went to sleep.
Things that worked for us - Wubanub - this was suggested by a friend, I laughed it off, but we got one at a shower and it worked. My kid's main problem was the pacifier staying in his mouth. Once he could reach it and it didn't roll away he was set. We also started really getting serious about solids, we started setting a much earlier bedtime (8:30).
In a matter of a few days he went from up 6-8 times a night to sleeping 12 hours straight almost every night. It was amazing and I still go to bed every night thinking that this might be the night that he stops sleeping so well.
Post by purplecow0206 on Jun 27, 2014 18:14:10 GMT -5
We're on day 6 of Ferber, and it's working pretty well so far. Last night, she only woke up twice, and fell asleep in the evening in 25 minutes. Tonight was 20 minutes. I think we had a bit of a backslide because I came home after her 4th day of Ferber, so it was a little different. I really think she was up as long as she was (about 45 minutes) the first time last night because she thought I'd come in. H was on that check, so I was out of it. She may not have even woke up the second time but we checked on her at 4:00 and she woke up, ate, and went back down in about 15 minutes.
She fights sleep like crazy, so I'm not surprised it's not taking as quickly as it does with some people.
We tried Ferber a few times between 8 and 11 months. Did not work. We now cosleep and we're all so much happier. I no longer believe in sleep training.
Is it too late to hijack? How do you know if it doesn't work?
We tried it at 4.5 months (one night!) and she cried for 3 hours straight and we only gave up at 6:00 AM when it was the normal time for her to get up. After that night, we basically threw in the towel and said we'd try it again when she was older. This time, the longest she cried in the beginning was 40 minutes before she settled.
Post by buffysummers on Jun 27, 2014 19:59:05 GMT -5
We did CIO at 8 months. I knew if we tried Ferber the checks would only piss her off more. Night one was 25 minutes, night 2 was 10, night 3 was 5, and night 4 she fell asleep right away. We only did it at bedtime, and she STTN for the first time night 4. It was AMAZING.
Post by carolinagirl831 on Jun 27, 2014 20:07:36 GMT -5
We did it between 6-7 months for going yo bed, we started with Ferber but really we has to do CIO with 60 mins as our limit. She cried to the 60 min mark for a week. We had yo redo it after traveling around Christmas and we had another week of and hour crying, but then she got it Really it worked great, dd is a great sleeper and has no issues with bedtime and has consistently STTN since 10 months
Post by cincodemayo on Jun 27, 2014 20:29:12 GMT -5
We tried at around 5.5 months and it was a disaster, mostly on my part. He just seemed so hysterical and I couldn't handle it. I bet he never cried more than 15 minutes. We tried again on a whim at 7 months and we never got STTN but he did ok for about a week. The 8 mo. sleep regression hit and it all fell apart.
Tried AGAIN at 9 months. Worked ok, took 4 nights and still no STTN. A tooth started coming and surprise surprise it fell apart again. My kid is so sensitive to any chsnge in sleep, like I let him fall asleep in the carseat one time and it takes a week to get his naps better again.
Tl;dr: we've tried many times. It's a work in progress.