If you have sleep-trained - tell me please if this is normal??

[curlyLJ]

We sleep-trained DD reluctantly (by necessary) about 4 weeks ago as her sleep was getting worse and worse. 3 nights of CC and she was down to 10 mins crying. Then she would sometimes go down with barely more than a wimper on the odd night.

However, we are still finding that she is crying when we put her down (she's all nice and relaxed on my shoulder but she starts the second any part of her body touches the cot mattress) and she will cry for anything from 30 seconds on a good night, to 10 on a bad one. Is this normal?? I was kinda hoping we would be able to put her down and say night night and leave her to just drop off. It's not distressed crying or hysterical in any way - I go back in if it is - but she just doesn't seem to be able to do it without crying.

Have any of you got any words of wisdom on this?
Thanks!

We sleep trained months ago. Some nights DD goes down without a peep, sometimes we have 30 mins(!!!!) of groaning (if not quite tired enough) or a short burst (a couple of minutes of angry screaming) if too tired and uncomfortable. Naps usually involve one or the other. I have sussed out that these noises are her way of getting to sleep and if I go in and disturb her she gets hysterical. I am hoping that as she gets older she will just count sheep or something!

The Baby Whisperer explains about a baby's 'mantra cry' as they are getting off to sleep, so I guess it must be pretty common. HTH

If it's not the "come back to me now, or my lungs will burst" cry then don't worry. If my DS is overtired he'll do a whingey moan/ cry with a few high pitched squeals (if really overtired). It's like us having a stressful day, we're tired, but can't quite switch off immediately. He rarely does this any more at bedtime, but still does it during naps if i don't act on his sleepy cues promptly.

Thanks for the replies. That kinds sums up what she does...I guess I'll have to get used to it then!

She also does it when she wakes in the night...I check her to make sure she's OK, chack nappy, check temp etc etc and if all fine I leave her to whinge herself back to sleep again - it feels awful at the time as she can now call out mumumum - but it's that or be up and down all night. She's usually back to sleep in 10 mins unless there is something really wrong.

As for naps, I haven't dared try to get her into the cot for daytime naps again yet (she used to do it months ago, but stopped at about 7-8m) as I am not sure she would go down as easily as at night. Do you/did you use the same sleep training method for naps as night-time?

Yes, used PUPD but took/still taking much longer with naps than it did for bedtime. Think this is partly because DD doesn't always have naps in the cot and we're out and about so they're not always at the same time. The days when we are at home, she goes down ok in the cot though has been refusing her morning naps a bit lately - not sure why!