Cry It Out Method - West Mifflin,PA

i have never read a book about CIO, but my general feeling is take those philosophies and insert a good healthy dose of common sense. if he's up at 6:30 it's because he's done sleeping. go ahead and get him up when he wakes up.

what the? What are you talking about?
You think he has a clock in his room and can tell what time he is supposed to wake up?
If he's up......he's UP!
Go and get that poor baby. There is no "final wake up" that I have ever heard of.

I have never heard of CIO having anything to do with a wake-up time. It's all about falling to sleep which is pretty much all about a full belly. Babies don't wake up at exactly the same time every morning or nap on a perfect schedule. When he wakes up, he's hungry. Don't leave him in there crying until it's "time to get up". He's old enough to fall asleep on his own, but not old enough to "wake up at a certain time" or "lie quietly until 7am if he wakes up a half-hour early". ? I may have read the question wrong but letting a child sooth themselves to sleep on a full belly at night and for naps is not about perfect scheduling or wake-up times.

Sleep training is for nighttime. You decided that 7:00 am was when you wanted baby to awake, but baby isn't sleeping til 7:00. Change your expectations. If he isn't waking up at 5:00, you're doing good.

Babies can't tell time. He doesn't know it's half an hour until you want him to wake up. Are you really going to let him cry for thirty minutes?

The cry it out method does not include forcing the kid to stay asleep until 7. If he's waking up at 6:30, then that's when you need to let him get up.

Eventually he will sleep later. You are doing very well at this point if he is making it through the night until 6:30, and you will HARM him if you force him to cry for half an hour in the morning after he has slept through the night.

Whoever told you he was supposed to sleep till 7:00 is WRONG.

Babies can't tell time. They wake up when they wake up. If he is waking up crying, that means he is dissatisfied in some way - hungry? Wet diaper?

The "cry it out" method, from what I teach (I teach early childhood at a local college), is for getting kids to fall asleep, or fall back asleep. If your baby is waking at 6:30, do you really want them to cry themselves back to sleep so you can wake them up a half hour later? That seems silly. When you have a baby/child, say farewell to sleeping in!!

Where would you get the idea that you are not to get him out of bed until 7?

If he got a good night's sleep, he is crying because he is awake and ready to get up. Get up a half hour earlier and let him start his day! As he gets older his schedule will change - he will sleep later, then he might get up earlier, eventually a pattern will be established, but I always felt like as soon as I got to know my son's "new" schedule, he hit a growth spurt and it all changed again.

I recommend the book Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. I learned a lot about infants sleep habits and how they change as baby/child grows and goes through the different stages of early childhood. VERY HELPFUL, in my opinion.

Good luck.

No, do get him up at 6:30. He is ready to get up for the day. How would you like to start your day crying for 30 minutes? Besides, you really won't be able to sleep with a baby crying anyway. I don't believe this method is to dictate just how long they will sleep, only to have them learn to go back to sleep in the middle of the night. 6:30 is the morning for a baby, just get up and cuddle, feed him, enjoy the day with your precious one. He's hungry, rested and wants your attention.

N.,
Everyone has a big opinion on whether to let babies cry. I'm not a believer. I think it's okay to let them fuss for a minute, or 5, to see if they will go back to sleep, but I feel mostly babies need to feel safe and loved. Mostly babies cry because they are hunger, wet or something is uncomfortable.
Just my opinion.

Wake up time is wake up time. If he wakes at 6:30am he is likely up for the day, so there is no reason to let him cry. He's not going back to sleep at that point. My boys had some crib toys which they would play with when they woke up before they would cry for me, and a sippy cup with water.

I don't know who told you to leave him in bed until 7, but that person is wrong wrong wrong. CIO is meant to get a child to sleep on their own. CIO has nothing to do with wake up times. If your child wakes up at 6:30, go get him and start your day. If your child wakes up at 5:30, go get him and start your day.

You will damage him if you make him lay in bed in the morning and cry. Poor baby is wet and hungry.

Why aren't you going to get him at 6:30 when he wakes? When your baby gets up for the morning, you get up.

I did the Ferber method with babies #2 & 3 and they are great sleepers. All my kids get up every day between 6-7. I don't make my babies cry in their beds until I'm ready to start MYday--I get up when they are ready to start THEIRS.

since your child wakes up crying cio might not be for you.
He's hungry when he wakes up. and babies don't have a "standard " wake up time. With him sleeping more at night he's going to sleep less during the day. But at 6 months you are looking at a growth spurt. maybe now is not the time for CIO. The biggest issue with CIO is that everything from illness to milestones will upset a baby's sleep schedule. So everytime this happens you have to do cio again. Babies will sleep all night when they will. you can't make them do it.

You need to do more research on CIO. And talk to your pediatrician to see if its a good fit for your baby.

If you are not feeding him during the night he's probably waking up starving so he's going to cry until you get out of bed and feed him.

Most babies wake up during the night at this age, for months and months after this age actually. If he's going to bed really early then his wake up time is not what you are trying to get him to do.

When he's done sleeping he's done sleeping. He's only 6 months old and he isn't going to sleep on your schedule. He's going to sleep on his own body's needs and then wake up.

Well the more time I have been a mommy the more I learn there is good and bad in everything and probably no one method should be followed completely, but using a mix of a lot of ideas works well. You said that the CIO approach works well at night, awesome, do night, it is the right time for that approach, bc it's working :). Now something I have for my little dude is a mobile that is set to come on when he cries, so if he cries out at night or in the morning, his music turns on. So maybe that would help yours calm down in the morning. But six months is tiny, so I imagine that he is probably hungry and if he were mine I would go and get him up and feed him, he might even go right back to sleep for a couple hours if you try that. My second was like that, he woke about sixish, and knocked right out for a couple more hours. So knowing your child's sleep habits is key, and you will learn them more and more. Also, just know that his sleep habits will change several more times in his first few years of life, so I find that giving some acknowledgment to that is so helpful. By three my first totally stopped napping and it wasn't worth a war to me when he clearly wasn't tired. My second is 3.5 and still naps 2 hrs daily bc he needs more sleep. My little guy is17 months but he moved to one long nap at about 14 months. So do what works! Learn from the books, but if one idea doesn't work for your child, chuck it and try something else till you hit on what works best for you. Number one rule for parenting in my 'book' is follow your heart ;)

Why would you not get him at 6:30? He is hungry and needs to be changed. Do not make him wait. That is mean. I am not a fan of CIO.

IF he wakes up at 6:30 crying. it's time for you to get up with him him...he needs you. I believe the cry it out method is used for babies who will not fall asleep for more than a few hours after 6-9 months old. For example, my 5 month old would wake up every morning at 1 AM and I would immediately respond by nursing him. I finally stopped running in the minute he began crying and waited, maybe 10-min. or so...and he stopped and fell back asleep until 6-7AM.

When your child is an infant and in the early years, *you* adjust your wake-up schedule to theirs, especially if it is such a reasonable time as 6:30 in the morning. Like the other moms said, he's wet and hungry and parenting is a 24/7 gig. Good luck.

If he wakes that 6:30 am that's fine. It's just about getting him 10-11 hrs at night without a feed.

Thank you all for your responses. They were very helpful! : )

You can't do it all at once. Get the nighttime sleep done first, then work on the naps one at a time.

What time do you put him to sleep at night? Does he wake at all between then and 6:30? It's very possible that he's not ready to make it to 7:00 and you'll need to get up with him at 6:30. It's hard to say without knowing the full schedule, but 6:30 is a pretty realistic time for babies and young children.

If you do decide to stick firmly to 7:00, you will need to come up with a special morning wake up to help him realize that it is different from the other times you're letting him cry. Maybe you walk in, open his curtains and say "good morning, sweetie. It's 7:00. Time to get up" in a very cheerful voice.