Ironwardog said:

My wife used to work at the UNL daycare center and she said we are working on independent sleep right away. Thankfully he’s isn’t colicky so it was pretty easy to start right away. She said they used to want to strangle parents who never worked on it and she doesn’t want to put our daycare provider through that. I have a feeling it isn’t as cut and dried as she thinks it should be lol

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Soooooo truth be told my daughter slept in our bed until probably early last winter some time. My wife is a special ed teacher and has some pretty rough days, and her postpartum was rough as well, so that combo wasn't awesome. My daughter was very colicky the first 6 months and my mother in law was over a lot at night those first few months to help with that. It was our plan as well, that battle was lost pretty early on. I can't remember the exact situation that flipped the switch for me, but one day during during this last winter I kinda just fuck it and was like, I'm cleaning out the crib we had at the time, and I'll sleep on the floor and just wear it until she's sleeping in her own bed. I just remember knowing before hand that my wife was going to have a hard week, and I knew getting our daughter in her own bed would help them both sleep, so that's what started it. A few months go by, we get her a new bed too, and bam, she's sleeping in her own bed, most of the time through the whole night. Wish I would have done it years ago now and just dealt with it, but hindsight is 20/20.

Ironwardog said:

My first, and so far only son (we are planning on one more), is 2 months today. I want him just to get to the point where he sleeps through the whole night but then slow down after that. Thankfully he’s down to getting up just once a night rather than three times a night when we first brought him home. It’s amazing how much bigger he already is than two months ago!

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My kids have slept through the night since around 3 months old. We attribute most of that to baby merlins magic sleep suit.