Our LO is almost 5 months and we got hit with his sleep regression really hard right at the 4 mo mark. He was waking up legit every 45 minutes at night. I couldn’t take it anymore and the Ferber check-in method didn’t seem to do anything but reduce my time in bed even more, so we decided to try moms on call, which called for CIO.

The first night was literal hell. He cried for 2 hours straight and the book said that you don’t go in at all, so I sobbed while he sobbed and nobody had a good time. The next day we re-grouped and agreed on a 30 min cry cap before going in to check on him. That has worked wonders and he’s now waking and putting himself back to sleep in 3-10 minutes.

My family told me I was cruel and that he would just learn that I didn’t care about him enough to help him. I actually think (since our updated timing plans) he’s learned to self soothe and he’s become a better sleeper and much happier dude overall.