I’ve no clue on any sleep ideas. If I did, I’d have a daughter that sleeps. However, already I can tell there are major differences between my two girls and have a feeling that what did/didn’t work with Julia will/will not work with Hannah. Here’s to constantly learning and growing with the kiddos!

I also spent lots of time fetching his pacifier and putting it back in his mouth so he would go back to sleep, it quickly worked, but then I had to get out of bed so many times to give it to him I woke up more at that point than when I was feeding him in the middle of the night. I figured it soothed his mouth because of the teething.

The better idea that I was afraid of trying was to take that thing away. Now that he doesn’t have it anymore when he wakes up he usually figures out how to go to sleep without my help, unless something is wrong.

I think teething had a lot to do with our sleep woes, hopefully Johnny will sleep better after they come in.

I really thought I had the “sleep thing” sort of figured out after the first two….my story was similar to yours with the first two. Madeline got to “cry it out” at an early age, mostly because she was crying anyway and it was for our sanity that we had to lay her down and let her cry. And eventually she did learn to cry herself to sleep — which she did almost every night even until she a bit past 2 yrs old.

Erik would fall asleep nursing so much more often than Madeline did, and woke up seemingly hungry in the middle of the night for so much longer than she did…and then when we tried to let him cry it out, it was hard to let him go for as long because we were concerned for waking up Madeline and bothering our duplex neighbors.

Then along came Kai — who started sleeping through the night at six weeks with no sleep training, and is still very good at putting himself to sleep without even crying most of the time. We only occasionally have to let him cry it out, and he falls asleep pretty fast when we do. Huh? It is still so surprising to me that he has turned out this way because I didn’t really do anything too different with him than with Erik at the same age, yet he is a much better sleeper.

Erik is definitely the worst sleeper of the three, and is still apt to wake up in the middle of the night (light sleeper) or have a hard time falling asleep at night (like tonight, where he has been disciplined multiple time for getting out of bed or crawling in his sister’s loft).

I think there must be some personality/physical component of this whole sleep thing, because I feel like while what we did with them as infants was each slightly different, they are all such different sleepers that there has to be more than just our actions shaping how they sleep!