Spill the Baby Tea with Helen: How We Got Our Baby to Sleep through the Night

Nov 2, 2022

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We started sleep training our little one at nine months, and it has been a bittersweet journey. For his first nine months of life, every single night we held him in our arms, rocking him back and forth, dipping him up and down, snuggling him until he found his way into a comfortable nook of our arms to fall asleep in. Our hearts were heavy to start the sleep training process – would he ever fall asleep in our arms again? But we were ready to sleep more than a few hours (usually 2 to 3 hours) at a time. We recently hit the 10-month regression and he’s been pulling himself up to stand in his crib so it’s a whole new ball game now! But for a whole month, our little one slept 10-12 hours straight each night. In this episode, I share how we got our lil bubs to fall asleep independently, putting him down fully awake in his crib between 7-8PM, to waking up ~5:30-7AM, i.e., through the night.

I am so proud of our little boy for learning to sleep on his own!! I remember thinking how difficult those sleepless nights were. On us, and on him. But I wouldn’t trade those 9 months for anything <3

Here are a few shortcuts if you’d like to hop to a topic that interests you!

[00:53] – My Giggle and Drool of the Week

[04:04] – Sleep is a hawttt topic in the parenting community!

[05:55] – How was our baby sleeping before we decided to train him?

[08:18] – Recommended age to sleep train and why we decided to

[13:05] – Sleep training methods

[16:45] – TakingCaraBabies’ plan

[21:12] – So, how did it go for us?!

[30:11] – What is his schedule like now?

[31:10] – Benefits of sleep training

[32:27] - Summary of what to do for those interested

After you’ve taken a listen, let me know in the comments of our IG post if you related to this episode in any way. Did you decide to sleep train? Did you decide not to? Have you had an unsuccessful sleep training attempt? Did you have a super sleeper right off the bat?!

As always, thank you for allowing me to share my personal journey with you all. I have so much more to learn and would love to continue connecting and learning from all of you out there.

I hope you enjoy!

#SpillTheBabyTea

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Host: Helen Wu

Editor: Victoria Cheng

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