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[quote=sybersus]We Ferberized at 7 months.  There have been some regressions, and when that happens, we go back and re-Ferberize.  It was very, very hard to deal with middle of the night wakings, and at first my DD cried 2 hours.  We followed the numbers in the Ferber book -- went in at 3 mins, 5 mins, and 10 mins until she eventually fell back asleep.  Is your baby hungry?  If so, I would recommend te chapter in t he Ferber book about getting them to stop eating in the middle of the night first and THEN go to the intervals.  Basically, you have to deal with the hunger first or there really is a reason for them to be crying.

The thing that helped me through the crying was remember what Ferber says -- if you give in and go while they are crying, then you have actually made the problem worse; they now are more likely to cry to get what they want.  It would have been better to go in right away and nurse.

FWIW, it took 2 nights to successfully Ferberize the first time, and now when she regresses, it almost never takes more than one night (knock wood).[/quote]

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