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WIO

  • These are the Moments I Would Lose to CIO

    Dear Daughter, Your head rests against my collarbone, soft milky breath synced up with mine, and skittering across my chest. I could pull you out of the wrap and lay you down in your own space. But instead I’m letting… Continue reading

  • Tear-Free Self Soothing at Ten and a Half Months (Wait it Out Method)

    Dear Daughter, It is 5:47AM. I am awake because you are learning how to self soothe. “Learning how to self soothe” usually means a caregiver is camped outside the closed door of baby’s room during “Cry it Out”.  Since we’re… Continue reading

  • Why So Needy, Baby? Yesterday You Were Fine Sleeping Alone

    She needs me to hold her today because she didn’t need me to hold her yesterday and now she wants closeness to make up for the closeness she didn’t need yesterday because the day before yesterday I held her and… Continue reading

  • What the Books Don’t Tell You About Infant Sleep

    Amazon shows 2,262 search results for a search for “sleep training”. Book after book, gadget after gadget. Things to make noise, things to make light, things to wrap your baby up in cloth that imitates your arms. What the books… Continue reading

  • Nine Hundred and Twenty Nine Nights

    He did not sleep through the night for nine hundred and twenty-nine nights at the beginning of his life. He slept snuggled up to me, sleeping in short bursts of time, nursing in-between, and needing me close for comfort. And… Continue reading

  • Sleeping Like a Baby

    Dear Daughter, You are eight days from being ten months old. I get asked all the time “How does she sleep?” and I smile and say that you sleep exactly as you should, which means that you rouse easily and… Continue reading

  • Time to Memorize You

    Dear Daughter, Nine and a half months have passed since I first held you in my arms and touched each tiny feature of the little face I had wondered about for the nine months that you grew into existence. Bedtime… Continue reading

  • I Never Dreamed That I Was Not Alone

    When my third child was three months old I wrote “The Wait it Out Method of Sleep Training“, a letter to reassure my daughter that in the future if she chooses to not use “Cry it Out”, she’s not alone… Continue reading

  • Sleep Associations and Sleep Regression

    Dearest Daughter of Dastardly Sleep Deprivation (And Ultimate Cuteness), Here we are at seven months of age and up to our ears in what is usually called “sleep regression” and which is typically attributed to a parent allowing their child… Continue reading

  • Sleep and Wake Again

    Dear Daughter, Mellow, sweet daughter of mine who hardly ever cries, you are the calmest of all our children. From everything I have heard, you should be easy to train to sleep as you are not quick to cry and… Continue reading