For those who never needed CIO sleep training...

[Anonymous]

... what did you do to help your baby sleep well?

[Anonymous]

Coslept & breastfed.

[Anonymous]

I honestly think it comes down to the personality of the child. My first I had to sleep train many times over after a trip, sickness, really any disturbance. My second never needed CIO once! She is happy to go to bed and settles down right to sleep or chats and sings till she does sleep. We didn’t do anything else different, our second is just more laid back.

[Anonymous]

I think it's their temperment. Everyone wants to think it's their awesome parenting. I just got pretty easy kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I honestly think it comes down to the personality of the child. My first I had to sleep train many times over after a trip, sickness, really any disturbance. My second never needed CIO once! She is happy to go to bed and settles down right to sleep or chats and sings till she does sleep. We didn’t do anything else different, our second is just more laid back.

Yup. There is no magic formula. Every kid is different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coslept & breastfed.

Same here.

Before having a baby I'd never heard of cosleeping, but my son had horrid reflux until 11 months. Cosleeping + breastfeeding was the only way anyone -- including our apartment neighbors -- got any sleep. We started at 2 weeks and never looked back; felt like a miracle

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly think it comes down to the personality of the child. My first I had to sleep train many times over after a trip, sickness, really any disturbance. My second never needed CIO once! She is happy to go to bed and settles down right to sleep or chats and sings till she does sleep. We didn’t do anything else different, our second is just more laid back.

Yup. There is no magic formula. Every kid is different.

+1. My older DD sleep trained around a year old using the Sleep Lady Shuffle. Never cried for more than 30 min. Once she started sleeping through the night, she slept like a dream. DD2 cried herself to sleep for 30 min to an hour at least once per week for 5 months. And she still had night wakings. At 18 months she is starting to sleep through the night.

[Anonymous]

Coslept. Kids are fine. No problem when they went to their own beds and rooms.

One of my babies choked in his sleep and I am not sure he would have lived if I had not been awakened by his flailing arms. It was silent. After that there was no way I could sleep without them near us.

[Anonymous]

Daylight and outdoors every day. Bassinet in our room only at night. Breastfed at breast in the night. Never gave milk I pumped during the day in a night bottle. And near constant holding during the day for the first three months (fourth trimester believer).


Or

I just got damn lucky with both kids!

[Anonymous]

I got both my kids on a structured routine of feeding, napping and sleeping between 8 and 12 weeks. Didn’t rush to comfort them when they fussed a little. Both were sleeping 11 hours per night in their cribs by ~12 or 14 weeks old.

Honestly they might just be really easy good sleepers though.

[Anonymous]

Got lucky and had a baby who was a good sleeper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Coslept & breastfed.

+1

[Anonymous]

I didn’t do anything special...the kid was just always an amazing sleeper. I wish the same was true now in the teen years! With my second kid, I did exactly the same things and she’s always been a lousy sleeper.

[Anonymous]

It depends on the baby. Coslept with older one, who would scream endlessly without us in bed. Younger one drops off on his own within three minutes. Never did CIO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I honestly think it comes down to the personality of the child. My first I had to sleep train many times over after a trip, sickness, really any disturbance. My second never needed CIO once! She is happy to go to bed and settles down right to sleep or chats and sings till she does sleep. We didn’t do anything else different, our second is just more laid back.

Yup. There is no magic formula. Every kid is different.

+1. My older DD sleep trained around a year old using the Sleep Lady Shuffle. Never cried for more than 30 min. Once she started sleeping through the night, she slept like a dream. DD2 cried herself to sleep for 30 min to an hour at least once per week for 5 months. And she still had night wakings. At 18 months she is starting to sleep through the night.

So both your kids CIO. I don’t think that’s the point of this thread.