We were exhausted and desperate
We were exhausted and desperate. Our 10 month old kept waking up every 2 hours and sometimes every hour. On a good night, he would wake up twice a night, but this would last for a few days only be disrupted by a developmental milestone or teething. He needed to feed to sleep and otherwise would cry. We had tried pick-up/put-down (epic fail) and modified Ferber with check-ins every 5 minutes lasted about 15 minutes. I found Batelle on a late-night google search, and it seemed too good to be true. I did my homework. Reviews were great, website looked good, accredited with the Better Business Bureau. We had an initial consultation, and I was cautiously optimistic, so we took the $1500 plunge. I tell you, this is worth it. It's 2 weeks later, and baby IS sleeping through the night! This isn't magic. You have to learn and work at it. There will be SOME tears, but you can always respond to your baby. They have a team of experts to help. In our case, we had multiple consultations about feeding because this was so closely tied to baby's sleep. He now eats much better during the day, and this helped our nights go better, too. The 24/7 chat is CRUCIAL. It was amazing to have an expert literally at your fingertips with an instant response when it was 3am and you weren't sure what to do. To say I'm impressed with this program is a huge understatement, and this is coming from a physician. I hope they publish their data so it can eventually replace cry-it-out entirely!