It’s 4 am…
She’s crying.. Again
I looked at the clock, hoping, praying that it was after 5 am…
My heart sank….
It’s not even midnight yet and she’s already up…
I knew it was going to be long night, but at that point I was so used to being sleep deprived, stressed out and borderline depressed that it almost felt normal.
It was hard to think back to the way life was before we brought our beautiful little girl into the world.
I love her so much, but these sleepless nights were killing me slowly.
At this point she was just over 4 months old and just when things seemed to be getting better with sleep, it started to get a lot worse.
Two night feedings turned into 3…
then 4…
and before I knew it I was waking up 5 to 6 times every single night to feed her.
And every time she woke up she screamed at the top of her lungs.
So I’d walk into her room, half-awake, half-aware of what I was even doing and feed her just until she fell asleep.
And once she did it was terrifying putting her back in the crib…
what if she wakes up I thought…
I can’t feed her again…
I’m empty and that’s the one thing that calms her down enough to go back to sleep…
The outlook was bleak to say the least.
We read hundreds of articles searching for a solution…
We wanted any advice that would lead us in the right direction.
We read books. Searched blogs and forums online.
Asked friends and family.
But the answers we found weren’t helpful at
We kept hearing reasons for why she wasn’t sleeping. She’s colicky, high needs, strong-willed and other titles for the problem.
But nobody had a solution to our sleep problem.
Just what you like to hear when you feel like your whole world is crashing down around you and you’re too tired to even know what to do about it.
You see, we’re the type of people who see a problem and want to solve it immediately, before it becomes a big problem.
I’m a go-getter who doesn’t like to hear there isn’t a solution.
…because there’s always something you can do, some action you can take that will make things better, or at least move them in the right direction.
But we were lost with no idea of which way to turn.
And being first time parents we’d never experienced anything like this before.
Flash forward two weeks after we finally found a solution.
Now, she’s sleeping through the night…
10 hours last night, 12 hours the night before.
We go through our bedtime routine. Bath, story, goodnights…
At 7pm.
Sometimes she fusses for a few minutes, but then quietly goes to sleep.
All.
By.
Herself.
Anymore its rare to hear a peep out of her until 8am the next morning…
Our life is finally back to normal…
We have time to make dinner together…
To sit down and actually have a meal without rocking our screaming little girl in our arms.
And I’m getting sleep again… a good solid 7 – 8 hours every night.
Being a parent is fun, just like I’d imagined before those long sleepless nights.
I finally feel like I’m in control of my life again.
What seemed like a train-wreck 20 days ago has been like a dream ever since.
The reason I’m telling you this story is because I want you to know there IS a way to get your baby sleeping through the night.
Even if you feel like there’s no hope.
Even if you’ve tried everything you know to try.
If it worked for our little girl, it’ll work for your baby too.
I’ll tell you exactly what we did to take our girl from waking up 4-6 times every single night to sleeping 14 hours at a stretch in a minute.
But first I need to know you’re serious.
Some of the details of our story are too personal to share here on this website.