After 5 days of CIO...

Both of my girls are now sleeping 10 hours stretches!!!! :a_smil09: I have actually been getting up midway to check on them and make sure they are still breathing. They are also taking a 1 hour nap in the morning, a 2 hour nap late morning, and a 1-2 hour nap in the afternoon. And they are pretty much on the same schedule. Its Amazing!

CIO has changed my life, my girls go to bed in 15 min (rather than a 3 hour battle), DH and I have time for ourselves again, and I am getting to sleep longer than 2 hour stretches. I feel like a new woman, and a better mommy because I am actually not exhausted and I have the energy to play with my babies.

No swaddling and No Binkies is also working out just fine, they don't even seem to miss it!! :banana:

 

Yeah! I am soooo happy for you and hope to have your success one day! ;-)
Enjoy your SLEEP!!!

 

WOW!

Congrats!!! Yay for sleep!

 

YAy!!!!!

:banana: Hooray!!!

We are in the middle of CIO. Lastnight, being Day 2 the boys slept right through the night!! I was craving a good nights rest for weeks now!!!

My boys started STTN at 9 weeks but 2 vacations and their circumcision threw everything off course!!! They were waking up about 8-12 times a night....it was sooo tiring for DH and I and was putting a huge strain on our relationship. Am glad we have some normalcy again!!!

Congrats Kyrstyn!!!

 

Congratluations! And great job sticking to it- CIO is so hard, but so well worth it! Enjoy your new found time!

 

YAY!! :Clap: I'm so happy to hear you had good success with it. Great job!! :good:

 

:banana: Congratulations! That is awesome!

 

Wow, that's awesome! And really nice to hear because I think we need to start this with my 8mo tonight!

 

Kyrstyn, that is fantastic news!! :clapping: Way to go Momma! :hug99:

 

Wow! Congratulations!

 

Oh that is awesome!!! :clapping: You must feel great!
Its encouraging to hear how well it goes since I am still deciding whether or not to do it. My girls are so close to sleeping through on their own that I just keep hoping I wont have to CIO. They'll get up once for a few nights then get up 3x then go back to only getting up once. Everynight I go to bed wondering if this will be the night!

I am so happy for you!!

 

GREAT JOB buddy! We just did CIO and Maeve and Will are doing great! GOing from 6pm-6:30am.....Will doesnt make a peep, but Maeve makes noises/fusses at about 4:15am every morning. I just go in and replug pacifier and she sleeps until 6:30am/7am!

Then it is off to the kitchen and the highchairs where they drink their bottles and I feed them some rice cereal and some fruit!

YEAHHHH for routine and normalcy So happy for you! Keep me posted! xojillian

 

Want to come to my house and show me how it's done ? LOL!

I'm so glad it worked for you :banana: ! Congrats!

 

You rock! WTG Momma! :Clap:

 

CONGRATS!! :a_smil09:

 

That's awesome!!! Enjoy your sleep! Now if I could get one of my girls to stop waking up, I'd be right there with you!!!

 

Congratulations. I am so proud of you for following through with CIO. I am too chicken to do it but I am getting to the point also where they are wearing me down at night.

 

Congratulations! I'm so jealous that you've been able to stick to it. Five days is not that bad! Okay, maybe I'll try again....maybe. Send some of your good CIO vibes my way.

 

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Enjoy your sleep!! CIO is the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but also the best in the long run!!

 

Congrats! Thanks for the update! It's good to finally hear a good story about CIO.
We are on night 4 of CIO! Doing good so far. Not going into detail YET! Don't want to jinx it!
jen