- It's super easy the first 2-3 weeks. Landry slept through everything. Even her loud brothers.
- 12 weeks seemed to mark a transition into tougher sleep.
- The 4 month sleep regression is very real. Landry had no schedule and didn't take longer than 30-40 minute naps for a good 6 weeks. Night wakings were more frequent. I felt nervous to sleep train at 4 months, but we began in earnest at 5 months. There really wasn't much schedule to our day. She'd eat every 3 hours pretty regularly, but the exact times were all over.
- During this sleep regression, when she wasn't napping as much during the day, was when we needed to start doing the really early bed time. Like 6:00. We were a little late to the game this time and started closer to 5 months probably, but maybe could have done it earlier. I feel like after the hit 4 months we were kind of in survival mode until she was old enough to cry it out and get on a little bit more of a schedule. Remember: A lot of these things take care of themselves with a little more age! Don't stress! Schedules and great sleeping happen closer to 6 months. It will be ok. Repeat: It will be ok!
- Graduated crying it out just doesn't work for us. Extinction or bust I guess.
- It always takes longer than I think to lose the baby weight. I feel like 3-4 months out is sort of a low, frustrating point. I'm far enough out that I think I should be nearly back to normal, but I'm definitely not. I think this round I was probably still a good 10-15 pounds higher than PP weight and none of my pants fit. I was starting to feel a little nervous that this was the new normal. But now we're a little over 6 weeks and I'm pretty much at my PP weight. I'm not exactly where I'd like to be, but overall feel much more like myself and much thinner and trim.
- My babies just evidently don't sleep through the night on their own. We were at 2 feeds a night for quite sometime. Landry had a really hard time kicking the feed between 11-1. I gave in for a long time, but we finally started letting her cry when she began waking between 10 and 11. I knew it was too early to feed and once we started letting her cry (which took a good week or 2, stubborn little thing) then she naturally started stretching to 2 and then 3 before she'd wake to feed. That's where we are now. I'm giving it another month or so and then think about trying to drop that one. Sigh.
- A good solid schedule started a little before 6 months. She goes to bed around 6 every night. It seems like she is tired and ready at that time, no matter how her naps were that day. She eats one time around 2:30 or 3 and then sleeps until between 6:30 and 7:30. Her initial wake time seems to vary day to day. Her first nap is between 8:30 and 9 and she normally sleeps at least an hour to maybe 2. Her next nap is anywhere between 12 and 1:30. This nap is varies quite a bit in length. She usually needs a third one, but it never lasts more than 20-30 minutes if she will.
- She is a little over 6 months now and starting to fight nap put downs, like her brothers did. I'm wondering if nap training is going to be needed soon.
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