[shelbydog]

Sorry you are going through this. We're a Ferber family and were with both kids. They both sleep well in their own beds and always have, but I have to say - we are strict with sleeping and treat it like a "rule" in our home. We sleep trained using Ferber (it's not complete cry it out). And we did have to re-use it after vacations and illness several times, and each time it worked for us. Your child needs to learn to sleep on his/her own. Ferber teaches them that you are still there but it teaches them to put themselves to sleep.

Unless you are willing to co-sleep which is fine if that is what you want, you will have to do some type of cry it out or Ferber. At the most it took our kids 2 nights to adjust and they were back to sleeping in their own beds. If you want to PM me I'll tell you what we did.

BTW, our ped. office in PA where we used to live actually gave out an instruction sheet on Ferbering...these are excellent pediatricians that believe you are doing yourselves and your children a favor by teaching them to go to sleep on their own.

If I can help just PM me. But yes, after even a short trip or illness, they can come to depend on different places to sleep.