how your evenings could be…

Let’s make evenings great again

Let me paint a quick picture for you of bedtime in my household. When we tell our two children that it’s bedtime, they don’t fight us, because they expect it. Because it happens at the same time every day, their bodies are already producing melatonin getting tired. We cuddle and read stories for a little while, the simply lie them down in their bed, give him a kiss, leave the room, and don’t hear a peep from them until twelve hours later.

My husband and I then enjoy a nice 2 to 3 hours of adult time relaxing and connecting. We don’t have anxiety or insomnia when we fall asleep because we’re confident that our children will not be up all night. It’s been this way since they were about 3 months old.

Ever since they were given the opportunity to practice their natural ability to put themselves to sleep on their own, we haven’t had to drive them around around at 10pm, sleep on the floor outside the door, or perform a 20 step ritual including replacing the pacifier, bouncing them, then standing on our head to get them to fall asleep.

I know what you’re thinking…

“Well lucky you, you have a “good sleeper”. The rest of us just aren’t so privileged.” Actually, I know of many, many families who use the same sleep technique who all have the same result in their homes, without exception, with each of their children. There’s no such thing as good sleepers or bad sleepers. Babies past the newborn phase need long, uninterupted stretches of nighttime sleep just as much as we do.

This can be the reality for you! I’d love to work with you to achieve this for your family, too.