Sisters

My sister's Missa (middle), Bekah (right) and I

I have two older sisters who each have one son. When Austin (my oldest nephew) was born my sister Missa was just about twenty-two years old. She read some parenting books. She let my nephew cry for ten minutes each night and went in and checked on him and put him back. By the time he was four months old he was almost sleeping through the night. When my nephew Elijah was born my sister Bekah didn't read any parenting books. She co-slept with Eli until she got married when Eli was five. Eli never slept through the night until she weaned him from nursing at two years old. When Hannah was born. I read some pregnancy books and two sleep books the first was The Baby Whisperer, the second was No Cry Sleep Solution. In the end Hannh co-slept with us for over nine months. None of the suggestions in either books helped Hannah sleep throught the night until I read and followed Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child.

I'm not suggesting that The Baby Whisperer and No Cry Sleep Solution books are a crock. I think that they just don't work for every baby. I cannot tell you how many times I put Hannah in her crib and picked her up again when she cried and then put her back down. I do know that that would work for some babies. It just didn't work for our babies.