Sleep Training Part 2

It's been four months since we cracked down on sleep training.
I am happy to report Max now sleeps 8 hours straight at night! Yay!

We continued to use our secret weapon: Taylor Swift but slowly phased her out, today we sing along to three nighttime lullabies and then off to bed. We also introduced a nighttime snack. Dinner is usually around 5:00pm and it was hit or miss whether he was actually hungry at that time (he by no means is a picky eater but if he isn't hungry he wont eat). After shower-time Max has a snack of either a banana, yogurt, applesauce, or milk and graham crackers.


Up until a couple weeks ago he was still occasionally waking at 1:00am, and then one day he was playing in his crib while I was putting away clothes in his room I turned and we was straddling the rail! I put him back in the crib to see if he would do it again and he did! This time I had to capture his escape. (*Tears) He was already getting pretty tall for the crib and now he knew how to get out. I knew this transition was coming because J transitioned to a toddler bed at the end of August (both are Jan babies). So after a couple photos and a quick laugh 24/7Dad busted out his trusty tool box and removed the rail converting his crib to a toddler day bed.

We remembered J was a wild sleeper and even the guardrails on her toddler bed didn't keep her in. Now that we had hard floors we were really concerned about Max falling. We folded up an extra comforter to supply some padding and we used a Pinterest hack of putting a swimming noodle under the sheet to create a makeshift rail. And although the first night he fell, he hasn't since, but then again he isn't a wild sleeper either.

Another concern during our sleep training was now he can get in and out of bed will he stay there. J would pitter patter to the door see us and run back to bed giggling when she didn't want to sleep. So far not an issue at night, his afternoon nap on the other hand is hit or miss if he stays in bed, but eventually he will nap.

Since removing the rail his sleep patterns improved when we feared it would be lost. So my tip is if you have a bad sleeper, routine is key. Find what will soothe your child like Taylor Swift did mine, and be patient he will soon be a big boy and will figure it out on his own.