Mama is Sleepy!

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This post is all about sleep.  Beautiful, wonderful, snug as a bug -in- a rug sleep!  As a parent, we all know that the days of sleeping like a baby are pretty few and far between once you have a baby (I'm pretty sure the person that coined that phrase did NOT have a baby)... I was inspired to write this because I had a friend ask me recently how I was able to get my kids to sleep through the night when they were babies. 

I desperately wanted to pretend that it was easy, that I had little sleeping cherubs nestled in their cribs that would sleep from 7-7 at 6 weeks old... I have heard of this happening before, but it was 100% never in my house.  I literally laughed at the question because the truth is, my kids never slept through the night...Like... ever.  My oldest, slept in a bassinet in our room until he was 7 months old. #firsttimeparentproblems.  My daughter, our second child, was a little better, sleeping in her bassinet in our room until she was 5 months old...#winning...😆 

We swaddled,  read every baby book,  tried every sleep training program we could that didn't include crying it out...(that method has worked for many many other parents with great success, and there is absolutely no judgment for those that prefer that method but letting our babies cry it out, just didn't work for us.)  No matter what we did, our little "cherubs" couldn't care less that we needed them to sleep through the night so that we could be functioning humans the next day.

Since our kids are a lot older now, sleeping has thankfully improved, but I became curious as to what was out there that could help these helpless sleep-deprived moms and dads that my husband and I were not so long ago!

In my search, I came across something called "BabySleepMiracle"   I really appreciated all of the info and advice and wanted to share it with you!  (Just a heads up, the link above is an affiliate link, so I may earn a small amount of commission when you click it) There are many programs like this out there, but I enjoyed their concept and reading the testimonials from the parents that have had great success using it!  I hope if you're reading this, you find it helpful in your quest for a good night's sleep or find it worthy enough to recommend to a zombie... I mean a mom or dad in need of sleep! 

 Check it out and leave your feedback and or comments!  Thanks for reading!

 Cheers!
Mom Sassy

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