I have been doing sleep training with Aya for the last 3 weeks. My son is 22 months, been a horrible sleeper since birth; waking up every two hours for 22 months, co slept with us, would have milk in a baby bottle 4 times a night. I wanted to try sleep training so many times but was so scared it will be super tough on him, he’s a very emotional baby, and we travel quite a lot, so was rly scared about this step. He’s very attached to me as he sees only me most of days, and when we travel the change of scenery makes him more attached.
I discussed all of this with Aya and told her how guilty I felt for starting to sleep train and move him to another room, but to be honest, I physically couldn’t handle it anymore, I really felt that not taking care of myself and having him extremely reliant on me is not the answer.
What’s amazing about Aya to be honest is she gave me my slow sweet time in this transition! With every stage whenever I felt that I needed more time to stay closer to him she’d advise me on how. And the most important thing is that she explained something I didn’t expect we CAN do during sleep training: is to soother our babies! No consequences when they’re frustrated or emotional especially at the beginning stages.
The approach was super gentle and the flexibility I had with my son during it and how we altered things was perfect. I can’t thank her enough!
And I understand how a lot of mothers are so scared to do this ! You can ask Aya how many time I postponed it 😅🫠 but I’m such a calmer mom now and a better one for that !