Controlled crying.. pt2

[bigbluehouse]

Hi all,

You may have seen my thread about my attempt at controlled crying for a 12 month old: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/sleep/3287809-controlled-crying

It's actually gone REALLY well. It started fantastic. He was going from 7:30 until 4am without a wake up and was returning to sleep until 6:30 with a simple quick visit to his room to lay him down. He even slept through on night number 3.

Since about night 4/5. He is waking at around 4 still, however he isn't going back to sleep. I go to his room and lay him down as normal, this works and he rolls over back to sleep. Or so I think!

Then, after about 5 minutes he becomes unsettled again but not to the point I need to go to his room. He does this for about a minute then soothes himself, then about 10 mins later, repeats and this goes on and on until getting up.

Thoughts???

He also never wakes up "happy" anymore. Even from naps. He used to wake up babbling and making happy sounds. Now it's always a cry?

Hi! I've just read through this thread and saw that CC is really working for you, my son is 1 in 2 weeks and is really bad at going to sleep on his own.. cries as soon as I lower him in to his cot even if he's fast asleep. Can you please tell me exactly what you've done with your little one? As in how long did you leave him then how long comfort etc? Thanks so much I'm at the end of my tether!

Hi!

We followed our bedtime routine as we always have - we made no changes.

We put him in his cot and said goodnight and left the room. We left him for one minute, then went back and lay him down and left him. We then left him for two minutes and repeated the lay down. Then three minute etc etc.

The first night it took an hour and a half and the second night was about 90 seconds and it also stopped the wake ups as we repeated this during the night.

I'm amazed how it worked and how quick. We've just reached a new little blip as mentioned above... good luck!!!

I'll give this a go, thank you so much. Sorry you've hit a blip, hopefully he'll settle for you again soon!

We had a great night!

7:45pm - 6am without a peep!

Did you give it a go?

I have found that having a good routine is key! My LO is 5 months and we do bath, story, milk then bed, and after a few days she now sleeps through 7-7 consistently.

I think the routine helps her to settle and accept the day is over and its bed time. If she does cry when i out her down its only for 20 seconds or so then she settles herself.