Confessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries
Confessions of a Sleep Consultant; The Jett Diaries – Ten (and Eleven) Months
After 11 long months, the dust has finally settled. We have achieved what I refer to as 80/20, or the best chance of balance you will find when it comes to baby sleep. As I recently blogged about, there are soooo many variables to baby sleep; a thousand (or more) reasons why they won’t sleep…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Nine Months
Well, 9 months; more swings and roundabouts… Jett is standing (assisted), crawling upstairs, laughing, dancing, clapping, kissing, mimicking simple movements and noises, and very generously shares his food with others (by attempting to feed them). By day (even despite cutting his fifth and sixth tooth simultaneously), he is the most delightful, easy-going, angelic, delicious, happy,…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Eight Months
Things here have been pretty tough over the last month (or more). And I don’t just mean dealing with the normal sleep regression in the clutches of the (typical groundhog-day) colds, teething, milestones, growth spurts, and leaps. I’m not talking about the “bad habits” you can overlook because “they’re only little for so long”. This is confessions of…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Seven Months
It has been a pretty intense month. More teething, more colds, more milestones. Considering we are currently in a ‘sunny’ patch with respect to the wonder weeks, then I can only assume that my bad habits, hectic lifestyle, teething pains, and the frustration of trying to crawl, is to blame for our current state of sleep…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Six Months
Ok…. So I know I said I was moving Jett into his own room. Well I did. What I failed to mention though, is that I am now sleeping on a mattress in his room. Not out of necessity, not out of habit, not out of (his) separation anxiety. Nope; for no other reason than…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Five Months
For young babies, symptoms of developmental leaps, teething, and illness (and their affect on sleep) can be frustratingly similar, blurring the boundaries of which point each one begin, and where they end. Often confusion sets for us as parents, and how we *should* respond to them at these times. This sums up my experience of 5 months rather…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Four Months
Just when many of us finally feel we are getting some predictability with sleeping patterns…. BANG! Along comes the Four Month Sleep Regression! In Wonder Weeks terms, this also equates to Mental Leap 4: Events (which starts between 14.5-19.5 weeks). If you are going through this, you may find some comfort in knowing that this developmental leap is Universal. Frustration,…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Week Twelve
Many will claim that things magically get better from the three month mark. I don’t know if it is so much as magic as a lot of long nights, early mornings, and blood, sweat and tears in the process; literally! The main improvement I notice as the weeks go by, is Jett’s consistency with night sleeps. I…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Week Eleven
What’s new this week you ask? Three month growth spurt, and mental leap 3; which has seen us regress to hourly wakings overnight, irritability during the day, and lots of baby wearing! I’m also noticing increased drooling and clinginess, so I wouldn’t be surprised if teeth are imminent! My mantra (as always): this too shall pass! Regardless…
Read MoreConfessions of a Sleep Consultant: The Jett Diaries; Week Ten
Finally…Spring has sprung! It’s been a loooong, cold Winter, so I am incredibly grateful to have had some sunshine over the past week to make me feel human again. We took Jett on his first beach trip, where he sunned himself in the glorious weather, and felt his tiny feet in the sand for the very first time. After ten…
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