A BIG secret

A little secret that I would love to share with any family suffering from sleep loss... The wonderful Nancy Birkenmeier at St. Lukes Sleep Center! She specializes in kids sleeping habits and truly was a god send and apparently a legend in and around the STL area.

 As most of you know from previous posts, we have been working with Carter on his sleeping issues and one month later we are finally at the end if the tunnel. Our little guy is no longer drinking milk in the middle of the night, no longer sleeping on the couch and is spending each night in his room...ASLEEP! No wake ups, no calling for mommy; he is just asleep in his bed, snuggled up and dreaming sweet dreams!

To our surprise, it did not take long nights of crying or restless nights. All it took was the two step process that was reccomended to us by Nancy: Part A: telling Carter that we were out of milk for a couple of nights (to stop the middle of the night habit), and Part B: then telling him the couch was "broken" so he wouldn't want to sleep there. Once those twosteps were completed he was sleeping in his bed all night long with the door shut!

He has been doing so good over the past 6 weeks it is so hard to believe that we ever had a problem. Now there are still nights that he might wake up; but he never leaves his room and he stays pretty much asleep from 8 (8:30) pm till about 6:30 (7:00) am.

What a change this has made on everyone in our house, most of all Carter!!

Here is an article I found on Nancy before we went in to see her. It reaffirmed to me that we needed to do something, and with her help we have accomplished a HIGE milestone for Carter!

 http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/relationships-and-special-occasions/parenting/aisha-sultan/when-children-won-t-sleep-parents-get-desperate/article_7f0e08cf-4ff5-569a-9970-2121379b9c26.html

To all my mommy friends who aren't getting sleep and have tried everything in the book, I HIGHLY recommend Nancy to anyone!!!

Till next Time

J