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[quote=Anonymous]This reminds me of my dental hygienist telling me she put her infant in a closet to sleep train him w/out waking her toddler. In her defense, it was a walk-in closet. Anyway, I'm not suggesting you do that, OP.

As a former longtime apartment dweller and anti-CIO mom (my 2 yr old co-sleeps), my personal opinion is that the kind of crying that happens in any of the major sleep training programs is really not that big a deal to your neighbor, esp. since the (presumed and hopeful) trade-off would be many future nights with no crying, instead of what happens currently (presumably, your baby waking and crying until you can get out of bed and soothe/feed). I've suffered many, many worse things as a neighbor, and I would argue that anyone who lives in a building with thin walls who hasn't had to purchase a pair of ear plugs at one point or another is darned lucky.

I agree w/ PPs who say a quick apology to your neighbor, in the context of your otherwise good-neighborliness, is in order-- the same as when you are planning to throw a party, for instance. Beyond that, it is not up to your neighbor (or any of us) to judge you, just as it's not up to us to judge your neighbor if she's had nine different boyfriends in the past year or wakes up only after the alarm has been going off for twenty-five minutes (or accidentally presses snooze and then leaves the apartment).

That said, as someone who has no experience w/ CIO, do you think it might be harder to sleep train this way if your baby can actually see you/knows you're right there? Might be a slight issue in the middle of the night, but I'm not sure-- others who have experience might help by weighing in.[/quote]

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