It was a classic story: I had long beautiful luscious hair during pregnancy and even longer beautiful hair during the first two months postpartum. I was tricked into feeling good about how I looked. I was shedding some weight with the help of breast feeding and my kid hadn’t started pulling at my hair yet, so when it was clean, it looked pretty good. And then, around 3 months PP, all hell broke loose. From what I heard after frantically reaching out to all my friends, my story is not unique BUT what I’m here to share is a few tips I found (and used religiously) to help combat the…

So I want to begin with: if you’re here to pass judgment on our decision to sleep train, I understand BUT remember we are all entitled and should make the decisions that WE feel are best for our children and families. That is the beauty of parenthood, you make the rules (obviously safe ones, duh). Our decision to do a modified sleep training was not made easily or hastily. It took months of sleepless nights, research, conversations with my husband, prayer, and ultimately decision making. Before I was a parent, I wasn’t entirely sure how I felt about the “cry it out method”, and looking back, its funny because I’m…