CIO Support Group

[snugglebot]

I know it's hard Snugs. We did a gradual approach by eliminating feeds. What is your routine before putting him to bed? We do BLW at diner then warm bath with toys after. I then dress him and put him on the floor to play. I sit in a glider and when he comes and signals that he wants to get up, I nurse him for 10-15 minutes. He usually starts pulling off and rubbing his eyes by then. I then kiss him, say some variation of "Good night baby", put him down and wind up a musical stuffed animal, then make the room dark (we have blackout shades and put a blanket on his crib). He cries for 5-10 minutes still some nights and others he'll actually crawl into his preferred sleeping position and put his thumb into his mouth.

I usually don't have much trouble putting him to bed. Even awake, he falls asleep on his own usually. It is just the nightime wakings and now the early morning wakeups that are killing me.

Our routine - which has been since he was 3 weeks old (minus the solids) includes

1) Supper around 5:30
2) Cleanup and play until 6:30ish
3) Bath for 15 minutes
4) Slather in lotion for eczema and into jammies
5) If he is a bit wired, read a book, otherwise
6) Nurse - I have since transitioned now to a bottle of formula though. He is much more relaxed with the bottle now than the boob
7) Burp, rock and put to sleep with a soother if he is still awake, otherwise just to bed. On cooler nights, he is put in his sleep sack, warmer nights just a receiving blanket on him.

 

[Arcanegirl]

We did sleepsense but i have never stayed in the room, it does give the option not to if thats whats needed.

 

[Vestirse]

We strictly do not pick him up until 6am. He usually will wake up 15 or so minutes before, shriek to let us know he's awake, then goes quiet. DH gets him and says he is either sitting or standing looking around. However, not all mornings are so easy. He'd been doing the above for about a month, then this morning awoke at 5:30 and screamed the whole time. We gave in and went for him at 5:50. Hope it doesn't happen again.

For the night wakings, we just left him. It was difficult at the beginning, but now he doesn't wake up throughout the night at all*. Our ped kept telling us he didn't need to eat at night at his age, so we bit the bullet a few weeks later. The early waking is an ongoing problem though, definitely.

*Well, when he started teething (with the bottom two teeth) he did wake up about an hour after bedtime two days in a row. Since ibuprofen worked both times, we gave it to him everyday after at bedtime until the teeth appeared about a week after (one popped in three days, the other took another three).

 

[Jkelmum]

Just bumping this for people who maybe need it with an update ....

I cio when lily was 16 weeks old ...since then after 2 wks she sleeps 7~7 and very rarely wakes when ill but goes straight back down ..she will be two in june and cio worked out great for us

 

[lynnikins]

we CIO for 2 nights with EJ when he was younger and he learnt to self settle, now we cant just let him CIO as he shares a room with his brother so we have to PUPD with him but its worked and he trasistioned from co-sleeping and feeding through the night ( 4 months worth of this while we were moving house loads ) to sleeping in his own bed in his own room , both the boys howl a bit when they go to bed but only 5-10 min then they are asleep and they let us know when they wake up 12 hours later too its very rare we are up in the night unless they are unwell

 

[stardust599]

Anyone still here?

We did pick up put down cry down from about 11 weeks and then at 14weeks moved on to controlled crying, it worked and she was self settling for bedtime and every nap within a week. Now we've just moved house and back at square one (she's 18 weeks now).

Don't know if I have the strength to do it all again!!
xx

 

[Arcanegirl]

Still here
Im not sure who could really help as cio/cc isnt really reccomended untill after 6 months...