cio is working for us....

after trying everything else, we finally brOke down and did cio with samantha - and its worked, for two weeks now.....she cries for 5 minutes and puts herself right down....

she is still not a napper during the day much but since ped told us not to wory, we don't cio then - just at night b/c it got so hard, she had a period of complete fussiness where she would get up every two hrs (and had never done that in her short life!!) but now after even the 2nd night and through this week, which is #2,, she is in this "routine" - we either get no cries or she does a few minute and stops, rolls over and goes to sleep, during the night, she rolls a little and puts herself right down...it certainly beats when i would run down the hall to pop a biNky in and now she doesn't even want a binky to sleep with!

i know its not for everyone but it worked for us, hard as it was.....i thought i would throw up but now i know its her just putting herself down...we know her cries well enough...so of course, we'd run if she sounded different or something was wrong, b/c even though she may cio, we watch her like hawks on the monitor!

i know people have been speaking about it on here...and it worked for us primarliy b/c every time we would go in and soothe her, she'd reset and start back from 0....now she has taught herself how to sleep better and dh and i are too!

figured i would add my 2 cents in on this....