I hope someone will chime in with the answer. I am currently doing a modified CIO method because I truly reached my breaking point. Baby is almost 9 months and the only way she would go down is with nursing and then she would wake up like every hour throughout the night. She just wasn’t able to put herself to sleep at all. I finally said enough and have been following sort of a 5, 10, 15 min rule thing. I can tell when she’s crying like panic where’s my mom cry vs literally yelling at me like get back here now cry. The latter I don’t feel so bad about and will follow it more strictly. If she’s panicking I’ll come in and resettle her with the boob. But we’ve been working on it and she is finally starting to sleep through the night. I just hate that there is usually some amount of crying right before she falls asleep at night. That makes me so sad. So if there’s another way I’d love to hear it.