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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20:55 here: OP - How did you do CIO without causing baby to vomit?  My DS is approaching that 6 month window soon.  And since he is still not STTN, I may have to do some type of sleeping training.  However, I couldn't bear any method that involves lots of crying as DS will likely vomit.[/quote]

OP here.  Honestly hard for me to remember completely since I was so sleep deprived, but IIRC after the vomiting episodes we moved from Ferber/straight CIO to a sort of sleep lady shuffle, where after I nursed DH would sit in DS's room until he fell asleep.  SLS has you start by rubbing their back til they fall asleep, then touching them, and slowly backing away and eventually out the door.  DS would fuss and cry a bit with that, but not the full on screaming that came with the first CIO attempt.  DH got as far as sitting against the wall but could never actually make it out of the room - as soon as he touched the door the real crying started.  Then he went away for a few days, and I wasn't going to ask my MIL to do that, and BTW I have another child so I couldn't do it... so I just walked out.  And as I mentioned, he cried for about 15 mins and then went to sleep.

In hindsight, the difference probably was that in doing the 'shuffle' for a while, we allowed DS to learn how to put himself to sleep.  He wasn't happy to be left alone to do it, but we also weren't asking him to do something he just didn't know how to do.  Whereas, when I tried the first time after months of nursing him to sleep, he probably just had no idea how to settle down in his crib by himself and go to sleep.

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