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SHE SLEPT THROUGH!!
WOOOOO! as you all know we've been doing controlled crying for 3 night now, it really hasn't been bad at all, i think she caught on on day one and it's never taken longer than 10mins to get her back to sleep. last night though..... she slept 7pm - 6am!!!!! first time in 6 and a half months that she has slept through. so, those of you who have a baby that wakes - i recommend CC so so much im in such a good mood today!
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We never tried proper CC as such but we never picked lo up when crying in cot - unless of course we knew something was wrong and we left her when crying then checked on her etc but not timing anything. Anyway it worked for us as well and now our lo (19 weeks) has been able to go into her cot in her nursery and she's sleeping fine (actually in there now having a nice nap)! She was in our room but starting to wake more during the night - she's much happier in her big comfy cotbed!
I think you should go out & buy yourself the biggest choccie cake to celebrate with!!
Really pleased for you both I'm thinking about cc but lo is still being bf so usually wakes at about 2am for a feed hes 6 months should he be able to sleep through yet?
Anyway hope it continues!
Basically the idea is that you put lo down in their cot sleepy but still awake and leave the room (or hide!) if they cry you leave them and go back after a set length of time, say 1 min to start with. When you go back the idea is to shush them and then leave again. This time you wait a little bit longer before going back to comfort them, say two minutes. You carry on like that untill they fall asleep by themselves. If they wake in the night you do exactly the same thing, that's the bit that will be harder if you are in the same room as you will have to listen to them cry!
It normally takes a few days to work, with less crying each day.