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[momof4babies]

This is way overdue, but now that the kids are back in school, hopefully I will have more time to post. Summer was really busy filled with trips to the pool, Disney World, Hershey Park, the sprayground, and lots of little day trips

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[yummy4mummy]

Oh wow Happy birthday to all your kids, and yay for going back to school, maybe it will give you some time to work on this sleeping through thing

[momof4babies]

Kennedy is currently sharing a room with Madison. We will be expanding the room soon, so maybe being a little farther apart will help. We have a sleep sheep which has a stream, whale, wave, and rain noises; we have been playing around with that. It was working for Kennedy for awhile, and then just stopped one day. However, she also did this with her pacifier; one day she loved it and literally the next day she wanted nothing to do with it. This was when the trouble really started since now she wants nursing to take the place of the pacifier

[yummy4mummy]

Yeah here they have "sleep school's" which is basically a place you can go stay with your baby, and it has trained midwives and what not and they help you to get the baby into a routine and sleeping through. And by babies i mean like when they are waking alot at night still at 9 months.
One of the things they talk about is when the baby cries don't go in and pick them up try to soothe them without picking them up, as they will then think, i cry, mum picks me up, and therefore cry to get what they want. Also they say you should leave the room while they are still awake, like settled but not asleep as they have 2 different stages of sleep, a deep sleep and a light sleep and if they stir during the light sleep and realise you're not there, they will come to rely on you being there in that part to self settle, and so forth. If what i'm saying is making any sense at all. But you will get it, and in the end the professionals don't have to listen to their baby cry all night do they? So you have to work out what works best for you guys.

[momof4babies]

I wish that we had sleep schools here. Although I have trained 3 of my kids to sleep, she really has me at a loss of what to do. I have exhausted all possible ideas and have even bought some sleep books to help me. The only thing that gets me through is knowing that it will not be forever, and the fact that I don't have to wake up and work.