There's a New Star in Town

It has been a long time since I have posted anything to this blog; probably over a year. But I have a good reason. Sleep in our house became effortless for us all. At 11 months old we used the Ferber method on Claire and she responded wonderfully and very quickly. From that time on, she slept like a dream. 8:00 pm until 7-8:00 am. We have had minor bumps in the road, a few rough nights here and there, but overall she turned out to be a great sleeper. Last year at this time I was in my first trimester of my second pregnancy and I was enjoying getting a good amount of sleep which was certainly needed. I slept 8-9 hours at night and took a nap when Claire went down for her morning nap. What bliss!
Her good sleep habits suffered a minor glitch once there was a baby in the house, but overall she kept right on being a good sleeper. I was sure that my newborn son was going to develop good sleep habits right from the start. After all, I was now an experienced mommy. Boy, was I ever wrong.
When Lucas was 4 months old, I was making small talk with a mother of another 4 month old (about our babies, of course). She commented on how her little girl was sleeping straight through the night until a week ago when she started waking for a feeding at 3 or 4 am. She didn't get any sympathy from me since Lucas had been waking about 4 times each night since we brought him home. It was then that I realized that my 4 month old was still sleeping like a newborn. No wonder I was so exhausted that by 2:00 pm I could hardly muster the energy to tell Claire no for the hundredth time that day. The time of living life as a zombie was supposed to be a distant memory by now. Not an everyday occurrence. I knew that it was time to make a change.