For the love of sleep

I have no idea why I've placed so many teddy bears in his crib. I guess the mother in me wanted him to feel surrounded by coziness.

As you can see, the sleep training has been ticked off the to do list. An absolute success. I never thought that I'd once again become one of those people who had a good night's rest, every night. Even with all this excitement and shock (yes I'm still shocked), I've chosen to continue the sleep training research, just in case baby boy decides to through me a curve ball. As a mother, you've gotta be ready for anything, dot the I and cross those Ts.

This time I'm reading Bedtiming by Marc D. Lewis and Isabela Granic. Amongst other things, the book lists the months you should and should not attempt to sleep train a baby. Which kind of explains why the first sleep training attempt failed. And boy was it a failure. You can read about it here. Baby boy was between 8-11 months at the time and apparently that is a huge separation anxiety stage. The 12-16 months stage is listed as a good time to sleep train if you missed the 2-4 months or the 5 1/2 to 7 1/2 months. I'll tell you what, I sure feel sorry for the next baby because she/he will be sleeping solo from 2 months! I'm kidding. Well, no, I'm not. Or maybe I am. Oh, I don't know, we'll see how I feel at the time.

And the naps are good too. Using the evening routine for naps worked out great. And it must be said that all the books and research in the world cannot and will never over power the ability to pay attention to your child's needs. I think by remembering that every child is different, we can better understand what these sweet young ones need.