My first child was the type of baby to scream instantly if you set her in a bassinet so it was 8 months of barely functioning on 3-4 hours of sleep. (Hell) 😩

With this one we were blessed with a much more chill baby that wouldn’t instantly resort to screaming when we put him in his bassinet. He didn’t LIKE being put in it but he was calm enough that night after night of me working with him, I got him to a place where he’d not only sleep in it but was also only waking up once during the night. My husband had been sleeping in the guest room so he could take our baby early in the morning as I stayed up, soothing our son into liking the bassinet. We finally felt confident to bring my husband back into our bed and for a whole week everything felt back to normal/perfect.

Nothing changed in our routine during the day but suddenly we are back to square one. I have no idea what happened but I thought I’d finally done it. I had one of those elusive babies I’d heard about that goes down in their bed at bedtime with no trouble. It’s so discouraging but I guess here we go again. 🙃