Sleep Baby Steps

2026-09-18

Some happened today that hasn’t happened in a few months, our youngest has slept through the night for three straight nights.

Before two months ago our youngest would sleep through the night every night, I thought this was normal, we sleep trained him well, and what not.

But that illusion of control was all broken when he started to get up once and sometimes twice a night wanting us. Usually it is just to sit in his room while he went back to sleep, sometimes we even slept on the ground in his room or in a chair next to his bed. I think he has nightmares sometimes, he is probably going through a ‘leap’ where his brain is growing, but he needed company at night.

We even let him sleep in a temporary crib in our room for a few weeks, that was hard but at least he was pretty comfortable through the night and we could shush him without getting up.

But we moved him back to his own room which has been good and for the first time in months he slept through the night three nights in a row. He gets up early still, like 5:30 or 6 AM but I am so happy to get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep. If I go to bed by 10PM I can sleep well.

I hope it continues, I hope I didn’t jinx it, because sleep is something I find hard to function without. I also hope he sleeps well, he probably functions better with a full night sleep as well.

-Gary