Started CC lastnight - support needed!

[MmeButterfly]

Sorry to start on a negative but if people who disagree with CC feel they need to stop me carrying it out - i just need to let them know that i know the case against it but have tried lots of alternatives but feel that this is the way for us despite it being intense and stressful.

I won't change my mind and start another plan now as i feel it would really really confuse my 6 month DD. She is beginning to pick it up and has gone from settling in an hour to settling in ten minutes.
She only woke up twice in the night and so we're already seeing improvements.

If anyone else has been successful with CC - and it is CC i'm doing not 'crying it out' i could really do with hearing some positive stories. I know this is the right thing to do i just need to know there are MNers out there who have reached the other side!

Sorry if this sounds really defensive! I know this topic raises blood pressure for all parents.

Good luck. T'aint easy. Hope it works quickly.

It's no fun, is it? Good luck, here's hoping you won't have to do it for much longer and you'll all be getting more sleep...

Cheers Stark - you're really not wrong. Its sooo hard but it does seem to be working (fingers crossed).

Thanks Inmaculada.

We are fans here. We tried No Cry (didn't work) Baby Whisperer (uncontrolled crying!) and finally moved to controlled crying. DD sorts herself out faster without us. To be honest, I don't go in at all anymore. She takes a long time to settle for naps but the crying is weak and intermittent so I stay away. At night, except for one feed, I leave her too it. She cries so much less if I don't go in there.

(This doesn't apply in case of illness, teething, etc.)

It's hard, and it was hard trying things that didn't work. There are people that disagree with it but DD wasn't sleeping well enough for her health we didn't do it because we want an easy life. She cried, but we are the parents sometimes we have to do things that aren't pleasant. We aren't going to let her stay up all night and we don't let her eat candy for breakfast.

She had a really good night - only woke at 4am when i fed her. She did eventually settle again an hour later - that was a tough stretch but she slept again then until 7.30am. Just put her down for her nap and that took 25 mins for her to settle so another tough one. But, she went to bed lastnight and only took 10 mins to settle.
I think we're getting there. I think we probably have a better routine preceding bedtime than at naptime.