"Finally Finally Finally.... After about 1.5-2 months, I can share our success stories.
Regina started to sleep very badly from 4.5 months of age, waking up more and more at night, not to mention 30-45 minute naps and re-sleeps during the day.
I was always betting on something, must be the heat, must be the teeth, must be the development of movement etc etc etc, I read everywhere that this is how it is, you have to survive this period...
Okay, I put up with it, I waited, but after months the situation didn't get any better, in fact it only got worse, my mood was terrible all the time.
I had looked at your site before, but I didn't dare to write, I was afraid it wouldn't work for us.
Then came the time when I decided that I didn't want to survive this period, but to enjoy every minute of it, because we moved into our house together, and I didn't feel that overwhelming happiness, I was so sleepless and exhausted.
My day was about nothing but putting the baby to sleep and sleeping. I had had enough of what I was becoming and we visited me in early October.
After 2 hours of talking, we got the sleep plan from you. It was Tuesday, but we didn't start until Friday.
I started, but in about 10 days not much changed, Regina strongly objected to the changes, as she used to sleep cradled and then next to me.
Despite all this, our little girl seemed to be able to sleep for several hours at a time, but she didn't seem to be accepting the new methods anytime soon.
That's when we got Dad in... Dad had a better result the first night, we had 1-2 sleep-overs, but on the third night something always happened.
In the meantime, his teeth started to come out, his movement started to develop, so a few things made the programme difficult, so that we wouldn't have an easy job.
Once I wanted to give up twice, I was ready to accept that we couldn't do that, but my father didn't want to hear about it.
I often drew strength from the success stories they shared.
Then you suggested another method which gave the expected result...
Regina started having more and more sleepovers, and this has continued ever since. We soon saw that she could sleep when she wanted to and fall back asleep on her own, the problem was often putting her to sleep, she was a willful little person who stuck to her routine.
Since then, there are more and more nights when he falls asleep in a few minutes, there are one or two occasions when he is more tearful or harder to put to sleep, but fortunately they are becoming less frequent.
In the meantime, another set of teeth comes in and we have definitely entered separation anxiety.
Many times even now we go to bed with the expectation that he will wake up 100 times, even though we have had sleep-over nights for 1 month.
It's amazing how clever he is, I hear him wake up twice, sometimes he cries, but he goes back to sleep on his own.
Before, I could never have imagined that he would go back to sleep BY HIMSELF.
Daytime naps are also evolving, with more and more quiet naps, but we are still working on these.
Well, a 100 words is worth a 100 words, thank you for helping us teach our baby, who used to be rocked to sleep, put to sleep with a pacifier, fall back to sleep and wake up many times, to sleep well and fall back to sleep.
Without your help, I would be in the camp of sleepless and constantly stressed mums."
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