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I cannot believe I have to do CIO now.
I forgot how awful this was with Drew. I remember with Drew it was 27 minutes of screaming hell one night and that was it. Cody has been our amazing sleeper forever but since he was diagnosed with an ear infection and then followed with a double ear infection, this has been hell. One of us has had to lay on his floor until he is sound asleep and then sneak out every night. He is sometimes waking thru the night and doing it again. So, here I sit, 20 minutes into the screaming and everything has been thrown out of his crib and he is still standing and screaming. I have to do this, right? 
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Re: I cannot believe I have to do CIO now.
Um, no? I'm not judging because I know it works for people, but I don't think I could ever do CIO. There are alternative sleep training ways out there if you're interested - No Cry Sleep Solution, Dr. Sears, Baby Whisperer to name a few... Good luck!
Looks like we will have to look into these tomorrow. Every kid is different. While I was putting Drew to bed, my dh gave up and went in and did our routine. Oh well, hopefully this is a short phase.
I haven't sleep-trained yet (not sure if I'll really need to... though eventually I'd like baby to STTN, but feel we still have time for that...) but I have looked into other methods - mostly No-Cry Sleep Solution - Pantley has parts of her chapters right up on the website. They seem to be more work than CIO, but while Ferber and other CIO methods work really well for some kids (my sister has had a lot of success with it, for example), I've talked with some parents who tried it and their baby just kept crying and crying. Of course, maybe they weren't doing it "right", but like you said, different things will work for different children.
Are the ear infections gone now? I wouldn't CIO until he is healthy again. DS has a double ear infection right now, so we are holding off on getting back to good sleeping habits. I'm having similar issues with him right now, up a lot throughout the night, having to stay in his room until he is asleep.. its not easy.
CIO when we do it.. its not easy.. but each night it gets better. What sucks for us is the past 2 months.. we CIO... get a somewhat normal sleeper.. and then he gets sick.. and its back to doing it all over again!
he probably doesn't understand why you won't pick him up if you are in there. Maybe in an interval stage at this point since now you've been in there every night.