Sleeping through the night

Sleeping. Next to weight, it's probably the most common topic between moms when they talk about their children. Everyone knows someone whose baby starting sleeping through the night right away (my niece was one such baby), but what about the others? There are so many sleeping training techniques, and advice about when to start, and what to do.

My son did not start sleeping right away. In fact, he slept 45 min to 2 hours at a time up until he was about 6-7 months old. Then he started sleeping about 4 hours at a time. But that only lasted a short time and he was back to 1-2 hours at a time. In the last 2 weeks though, he has finally started sleeping.

Did we start leaving him cry? No. Did we do anything different? Not really. Well, okay, yes we did. We finally thought about giving him a stuffed animal to sleep with. And now he has 2 small bears he cuddles while sleeping. And his sleeping starting to turn around as soon as we gave him those bears. Why did we not think of it earlier? Don't know, but better late than never.

Especially since he slept right through for the first time last night! And I mean through as in 7:30 pm to 7:00 am! Woohoo! And the two nights previous, he only woke up briefly once around 4 am each night. So as someone who has not slept a full night in over 14 months, let me say that I am excited to finally get to sleep. And so happy that my son has learned to sleep all night, without having to use any sleep training. Now I guess I will need to learn to sleep through...