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pickles16
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Jen
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CIO question
So I'm soooo apprehensive to do this..the reason being, I tried a mini version of it the other night, and Chels is the type of baby that can whine for an hour before there is a full blown screaming crying fest....So the other night she was whining for a bit and I though I'd let her whine and she'll fall back asleep, the thing is she whines with her eyes closed, well I let her whine until she started screaming with eyes wide open....so what do I do in this situation!!!
Thanks in advance!!!
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Posted 6/25/09 8:54 AM  |
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angnick
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Angela
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Re: CIO question
try it.
I let ds whine and then cry for a while last night
It is not easy but you can do it.
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| Posted 6/25/09 9:14 AM |
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SweetTooth
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Lauren
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Re: CIO question
for me, whining was not crying. I didn't start the clock until it was full blown crying.
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| Posted 6/25/09 10:05 AM |
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MommyAgain
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Re: CIO question
jen, i never start the clock until lits full blown crying either..i agree with the above poster..
i say, spend two or three nites with it, and thats probably all youll need..
let her whine, let her wake herself up and cry..and then start it...eventually (and the first nite may take AWHILE, but remember, no baby has been hurt from crying) she WILL fall asleep..
DS took 2 1/2 hours the first nite  1 1/2 hours the second, and then 45 minutes the 3rd..he NEVER woke up in the middle of the nite again..
and if Mila wouldnt have started STTN, i wouldve done the same thing with her!!
good luck, lemme know how it goes!!
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| Posted 6/25/09 11:44 AM |
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Blissful
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Maria
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Re: CIO question
Posted by SweetTooth
for me, whining was not crying. I didn't start the clock until it was full blown crying.
yup..... Same here.. Alexa is a whiner I don't start counting until its full blown crying. She can whine on and off for about 45 min and I don't go in.
It's SO HARD... But we had night 2 last night and already A HUGE improvement in ALexa.
Below is my sleep log for the past 2 days of CIO. I'm doing it for night and naps. This is just an example so you see how things went.
Every time you see "retime" it means she stopped crying hard or went to fussing and you start timing again because this means they are trying to self soothe. Summers Post on CIO is GREAT. I'll bump it for you as well.
Tuesday June 23, 2009
Wake up at 7:30 am
Fruit and cereal
Change diaper and 9:27 am swaddle from waste down in crib with radio on white noise
Fussed a little and rolled around and asleep by 9:40 am slept until 11:15 am (1 hr 35 min)
Nursed 11:45am
Down for nap at 1:05 pm in crib with white noise machine swaddled from below arms, fussed and cried a bit fell asleep at 1:20 (55 min nap)
Woke up from nap at 2:15pm ate 3.5 ounces
4:00pm nursed lay down in crib with white noise machine NO SWADDLE 4:15 pm check and soothed 4:23 pm and re-swaddled from waist down. 4:29 (3 min Ferber) went in soothed… still didn’t completely calm down left room 4:34pm. 4:36 pm sleeping………Woke up 5:30pm (55 min nap)
Medicine at 5:50pm
1/3 bowl peas and 1/3 bowl oatmeal 6:30pm
7:00 pm bath nursed swaddled from below arms and down at 7:36 pm…. Fussed 7:48 went in and soothed (3 min) 8:00pm asleep.
8:48pm went in 8:51 pm re-swaddled and soothed (3 Min) start at 8:52. 8:57 went in soothed hysterical crying (5 Min) retime 8:58 went in 9:05 soothed (7 min), hysterical crying. Retime 9:08 pm retime 9:11pm retime 9:12 pm 9:15 pm asleep…………woke up 4:45 am to nurse went back down drowsy but awake 5:15 am cooed until retime: 5:36 am retime 5:38 am retime 5:40 am asleep 5:43 am woke up at 6:00 am and fussed for like 3 min and back to sleep.
Wednesday June 24, 2009
Wake up 9:30am.
Bowl of prunes and bowl of cereal
Went out for a little bit
11:30 am. Change diaper, nurse and lay down in crib NO SWADDLE! At 11:47am. Fussed not bad until Noon and asleep
12:41pm woke up and fussed (40 min nap-not long enough so back to CIO)
Retime 12:42pm
Retime 12:44pm
Retime: 1:00 pm.
1:03 pm went in and soothed (3 min)
Retime: 1:04pm
Retime 1:05pm
Retime: 1:07 pm
1:12pm went in and soothed- Hysterical crying (5 min)
Retime 1:14 pm
Retime: 1:16 pm
Retime 1:18pm
Asleep 1:22
Awake 1:34pm went in nursed her back down 1:51 pm
Retime 1:51 pm
Retime 1:55pm
Took her out of crib 2:00pm
Nursed her and swaddled her from waist down at 3:36pm and put in crib drowsy went RIGHT to sleep!
4:12 pm awake in crib…..
5:00pm medicine went for a 30 min walk around neighborhood
5:45 bowl peas small bowl cereal (very tired and cranky did not finish eating)
6:00pm bath
6:15-6:35 swaddled from waist down first then nursed on both sides. Laid down in crib drowsy
No crying asleep right away at 6:40 pm
7:26 pm woke up crying
7:31pm (5 min) went in…. hysterical crying
Retime: 7:32pm
Retime: 7:35pm
Retime: 7:40 pm
Retime: 7:42pm
Retime 7:43 pm
Retime 7:45 pm
7:48 pm asleep
Retime 7:53pm
Retime 7:56 pm
Asleep 7:58pm
Asleep 8:09 pm
Woke up 3:10 am nursed both sides put back in crib drowsy but awake 3:40 am fussed for 1 min asleep
Woke up 3:46 and fussed on and off until 3:51 am Asleep 3:55 am cried out a few more random times 4:10 am asleep
Thursday, June 25, 2009
9:30 am awake. Nursed
10:00 am bowl of cereal
Playtime in nursery for about45 min
11:30 am started getting fussy. Change diaper swaddle below arms. Nursed. Laid down in crib drowsy but awake at 11:40 am cried right away 1 min then started “singing to sleep” at 11:42 am.
She is currently "fussing" as we speak in the crib for her nap 
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| Posted 6/25/09 11:49 AM |
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Blissful
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Member since 6/08 4985 total posts
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Maria
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Re: CIO question
only 8 min of fussing in the crib ( I didn't have to go in) and she is down for a nap Alexa NEVER napped until we started CIO!!!
BEST THING I have done for ALL of us!!!! She is a MUCH happier baby after just two days of this!!!!
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| Posted 6/25/09 12:01 PM |
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pickles16
Real Estate Professional
Member since 11/07 17227 total posts
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Jen
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Re: CIO question
thanks ladies, I'm such a weakling.....she's not a huge cryer, so thats why I think it kills me when she does cry, bc she doesn't cry normally...UGH, I think I may have to toughen up...
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| Posted 6/25/09 4:42 PM |
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