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Sleep Training

Tucker is now 7 months old.
Tucker has never been a good sleeper.
So now we are trying sleep training, and you have no idea how much I dread it.
We have an article we are using that has all the instructions for the specific sleep training we will be doing ( I will reference it below) I watched a youtube video (which I will link below as well) of a mother who tried this method and it seems to be working for her, and we are going to give it a try. I wanted to document this because I wanted to be able to look back when Tucker is sleeping through the night, and know we did the right thing. You may be wondering what sleep training is, it can also be called the cry it out method, but ours will be a little different.
Tucker could wake from his nap at any time so I better run, but I will be on here tomorrow hopefully with an update on how tonight goes. *cross your fingers for me!*

Sleep training article: http://sleepcenter.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=60

Youtube video we watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6lWys-vj0&feature=youtu.be

-B

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