January 2008 Expecting Club

Okay, so this isn't meant to be a debate, so if you are against the CIO method, just skip over this post.. :)

My question is, does anyone know when it's okay to let them cry it out? My DD is such a snuggler, she seems to want to just snuggle to go to sleep, instead of falling asleep on her own. It's been such a long time since I've had such a little one in the house (9 years!), that I've forgotten when we did the CIO thing (which worked wonders for my now 9 year old).

Thanks for your input!

Holly,

We did and do CIO with my 15month old son-and will with Michael too. He is almost 7 weeks old now so we're really just now starting it with him. (I just don't have the heart to do it when they're younger than this)

We do CIO at nap/bed time basically, when we know he's fed, burped and changed. He is usually okay if we lay him down with his pacifier, but if it falls out of his mouth-get ready for the screaming! lol

Our 15mo old does really well with it too. He is usually asleep within minutes of being put in his crib at night. We also put him in his crib if he is being naughty (we went through a short biting phase). We let him CIO then take him back out, if he doesn't fall asleep.

HTH

We aren't going to use the CIO method but this might help you. We had problems putting our 6 week old down to sleep at night, she's usually wide awake when we hope to go to sleep. We have the tiny love mobile (i researched it while i was pregnant and found it was the best rated one w/ consumer reports) she stares at it for up to a half hour (usually less) and then falls asleep on her own, no crying. We also have the rainforest soother and alternate between that and the mobile (so she won't get tired of them too quickly) and both work well, the mobile works better though.

I think part of her crying was boredom..she's so used to seeing us and being entertained by us that once we put in the crib where nothing was happening she hated it. Since we started using the two things i mentioned above it's been almost like heaven :)

hope this helps.