I had to stop obsessing over my baby’s sleep schedule for my own mental health
?Marlo has been sleeping in her crib for over 30 MINUTES. I feel so alive…. Wait, do you think she?s still alive"? I sent my husband this text in a fit of disbelief when our daughter was 10 months old. She wouldn?t nap for more than 20 minutes when placed in her crib, so we?d spent the entire winter taking turns babywearing her for three back-aching 90-minute naps a day. Which means we spent the winter doing little else but obsessing over our baby sleep schedule and napping our daughter, no matter the weather.
This is not how I?d imagined my mat leave. I?d pictured my friends and I, all home with new babies, bringing our bundles to the brewery, strolling them to the farmers? market, and forming our own team of tiny, unsynchronized swimmers at the community pool. And for the first few newborn months, we were lucky: Marlo was a shockingly good sleeper who slept from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. most nights and snoozed not only through brewery visits, but also through two cross-Canada flights and the house-rattling renovations next door.
But then, at around four months, she started to fight sleep as if her UFC belt were on the line. I knew this was the four-month regression, when her sleep cycles would change forever, waking her up every 90 minutes or so. It was now my job to teach her how to self-soothe through those wake-ups and put her on a proper sleep schedule.
So I dutifully read all the baby sleep books, usually when I should?ve been sleeping. (?Sleep when your baby sle...
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