Me 3 Months ago
I actually meant to write this during or soon after our encounter with sleep training, but well…it didn’t go so well and we were too stressed out and I just forgot about it. Lots of folks will tell you that it’ll work eventually and you just have to stick with it. I will tell my friends that as well, but I will also give them my story about how well…the quote below sums it up.
“Preston wins” – my Dad
Sleep training is something most parents will go through at some point. What it means varies a lot, but the result most of us are looking for is…sleep…for us. Oh yes, for the baby too, but let’s be real. It’s the glimmer of hope that a logical method will yield an expected (and welcome) outcome.
Most of the time the recommendation seems to be that it’s possible to start as early as after the baby has already been weaned off of all night feedings. There are many great books for how to do that. One that I read and found to be ok was: 12 hours by 12 weeks. Obviously that didn’t work otherwise we wouldn’t need to try sleep training and baby would be sleeping 12 hours…
Me Now
At around 15 months P’s moved off a 2 nap cycle and onto a 1 nap cycle. We never went and tried any particular sleep training method again and he still is not what I would consider sleep trained (we still need to get him if he wakes).
I feel like I may just be consigned to the fact that at some point he will just grow out of it. Every once in a while he’ll give me a glimpse that he can sleep through the night. Unfortunately it also seems that the achievement ebbs and flows based on what’s going on with his development…I’ll be honest it feels like more ebbing than flowing.
On the up side that development has made him much more interactive…and mobile. I think understands a lot more than he lets on. He is also becoming more…opinionated.
