sleep throught the night - again

[Anonymous]

I have a question to all mothers who have already passed through this stage: when DC had sleep regression, what usually starts around 7-8 months and later - how long did it take until DC overcame this phase and slept again through the night - without any sleep training such as CIO or any other interventions, just let it go by? just to get a perspective

[Anonymous]

should be 'through'...sorry

[Anonymous]

oh god yes please someone answer....

[Anonymous]

I'm afraid it didn't work for us for either child without CIO at about 8 months.

[Anonymous]

ditto- had to CIO at 8 months- it became a habit after awhile. Hope that is not the case for you but it was for us.

[Anonymous]

We are asking the folks who did NOT do CIO -- how long did it last before the child resumed STTN after the typical regression at 7-8 months. Eventually even non-CIO'd kids STTN, we are just trying to get an idea of when.

[Anonymous]

did not know we wer enot allowed to relpy our own experience- sorry. I apologize OP.

[Anonymous]

I did not do CIO with DS1. He slept through the night at one year. Until then he would wake up at least once a night.

[Anonymous]

14:30 here (and I'm not the OP, just a hanger-on). Sorry, really didn't mean my post to come across as nasty or dictatorial, just clarifying what I thought the question was....like OP my babe slept well UNTIL 7-8 months and then it all went to shit.

[Anonymous]

My daughter slept through until 7 months and now still doesn't at 11 months. I know that doesn't exactly answer your question, but it is what it is. Sigh...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a question to all mothers who have already passed through this stage: when DC had sleep regression, what usually starts around 7-8 months and later - how long did it take until DC overcame this phase and slept again through the night - without any sleep training such as CIO or any other interventions, just let it go by? just to get a perspective

I guess that the answer to your question is "it varies." Some kids won't sleep through the night again without some sort of sleep training. Some will. So that's why a bunch of people responded that they had to CIO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kids won't sleep through the night again without some sort of sleep training. Some will. So that's why a bunch of people responded that they had to CIO.

Like, ever? I would imagine any kid will eventually, by say age 18, not be crying for mom or dad in the night even without CIO. It's just that for the folks who went CIO we won't ever have the data on when that would have been without the CIO. I totally get it that not everyone is willing or able to wait it out without the CIO and am not judging that choice. Just, the folks who are responding that they needed to CIO are saying they did it [relatively] quickly (like at 8 months) so for those of us who are facing regressions at the 7-8 month mark and wondering what's ahead, it's just not a helpful data point for many of us. Anybody who waited until like 18-24 months or something and then still ultimately decided they needed to CIO? For folks who never did CIO and now have school age kids, when did they turn the corner?

[Anonymous]

To disagree with the PP, every child will eventually sleep through the night without sleep training, it just might not be within a time frame that you like! My first daughter slept well until 6 months and then didn't sleep through the night again until 14 months.

[Anonymous]

I have never done CIO, and never will. I just does not feel right to me as a mother.

My DS did not sleep through the night ONE SINGLE NIGHT for the first year of his life and was up at least 2-3 times a night to nurse. Faithfully I dragged my exhausted ass down the hallway and into his room to get him back down. Then wonderfully with no change in my habits when he turned a year, he slept PERFECTLY from 7pm-6am. He is now 21 mos. Sometimes we have setbacks, like teeth, illness, or something that keeps him up, but we normally have a week of misery and then he's back to sleeping like an Angel.

Personally I think all bets are off for the 1st year and babies are soooo unpredictable. They really just do their own thing with no rhyme or reason. Don't try to categorize, analyze, or rationalize, just go with the flow and it will work out by the time they are toddlers.

[Anonymous]

I've known kids that are 7 years old and still need Mom to pat their back to sleep at night. And teens that continue to have sleep problems (my cousin). So, yes, some kids don't learn how to sleep well without some sort of training. Some do....some don't. I'm no doctor but there are books that discuss these types of examples as well. The Weissbluth book has some examples in it of this. I'm not telling you that you have to Ferberize/CIO. I'm just telling you that some kids don't learn to sleep well on their own and continue with sleep issues through adulthood.