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When Mike was born, we quickly learned something important about toddler sleep routines: you can’t force sleep but you can only support it. We never wanted bedtime to feel like a fight, a negotiation, or worse… a punishment.So instead of asking “How do we make him sleep?”, we asked: 👉 “What does his body actually…
There’s a moment in every soon-to-be parent’s life when you honestly believe that having a baby won’t change your life that much. We were right there. Andie was pregnant, close to the end, and we were confident. Calm. Prepared.We told ourselves: 👉 “Sure, we’ll have a child. But life won’t stop.” And technically… we were…
In the first months of Mike’s life, things looked pretty much like you’d expect with a newborn:he ate, he slept, and then he did it all over again. His awake windows were short and simple – feeding, diaper change, maybe a bit of gentle massage, stretching his tiny arms and legs, and that was about…
If you’ve ever searched “How should my baby sleep?” or “What’s the perfect sleep schedule?” you already know: the internet and ChatGpt has opinions. A lot of them. Experts, books, charts, ideal nap windows, miracle routines, “science-backed strategies”… and then there’s real life. And real life looks nothing like a parenting manual. From the very…