Well you will not find the answer in this one post. I hope you don’t stop reading right now, because there will be some tips. Lately, I have just been hearing too much of how my wife and I are lucky to have such great sleepers. People not understanding how our kids can take such great naps and then sleep 12-14 hours at a night, etc…
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
The only way I consider us lucky is that a friend of a friend gave a book to our friend when she was pregnant and our friend in turn recommended it to us. My wife first borrowed the book and then loved it so much we bought our own copy of “Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child” by Marc Weissbluth, M.D. around the time our daughter was born in 2006.
I will say upfront the book is not a storybook read. It is more of a textbook read and I personally would not just sit down a read cover to cover. The book is broken up into sections and I recomend that you just read the section that your child is in and preread the section that your child will be into next. The joy and curse of babies is that they are constantly changing, growing and developing. With all of these changes they will constantly be changing their sleep habits on you. Personally I felt it would be right when I got our daughter figured out, she would be doing something else. It was and still is a great joy to watch her grow into a little girl that loves her sleep.
It is my desire to post something every now and then of our journey as parents as we try to teach our kids healthy sleep habits in hopes that you may find support and possibly glean tips in teaching your kid(s) healthy sleep habits.