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In this episode number 230, I'm chatting with Jen and Robin of Sleepy Cues.

We're talking all things sleep and there is so much grace.

I think people think you just sleep train and our approach is that we want to set the kids up for success in the sleeping arena.

So even from the time that they're born you can help shepherd your kids sleep.

So I think the word sleep train, cry it out.

Those are some trigger words that I think when parents, moms in particular hear them, they already feel oppressed or scared.

We try to show that there are so many ways you can shepherd your kids sleep where they don't have to cry it out.

They don't have to cry at all if you don't want them to.

I think it was the first night I brought my oldest son home from the hospital and I was up multiple times that night.

I thought is this the rest of my life and I could not have any perspective that he would ever sleep all the way through the night.

I'm here to say he's 13 now and he does.

But in those years between I know as parents we are desperate for help and I so wish I had Jen and Robin coaching me through how to read the cues of my kids and to adjust my parenting around each individual kid to help shepherd them and good healthy sleep habits.

My prayer is that as you listen to this episode before you even do that you would stop right now that you would ask the Holy Spirit to direct you what is for you and what is not for you with so much parenting information out there.

Sometimes we can think everything's for us and it's not and I'm knowing that God will direct your steps and if you are needing more help please go to the show notes and connect with Jen and Robin.

So honored to share them with you and even a lot of our conversation centers around infants and establishing these sleep patterns we do address your toddler questions about waking up in the middle of the night and six to eight year olds who struggle to fall asleep because of anxiety before we jump into all the practical goodness.

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All right let's get to my chat with Jenna Robin here we go.

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