Will I Ever Sleep Again?: Episode 301

The Mom Hour

Mom Hour Media

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

One of us co-slept throughout the baby and toddler stage, and let naps happen whenever and wherever. The other sleep trained and held tight to nap schedules even through the preschool years. While our differences in the realm of sleep are worth digging into, just as interesting are the shared feelings we experienced, even at opposite ends of the spectrum. We both felt judged at times; we both made choices around our social lives because of how our babies slept (or didn’t sleep). Among our combined eight kids we experienced good sleepers, terrible sleepers, and several in the middle–plus a host of “sleep surprises” that cropped up later on. Join Meagan and Sarah for Episode 301, a look at infant, toddler, and kid sleep through the comforting lens of hindsight with a healthy dose of “It’s all gonna be OK.” Enjoy!

LINKS MENTIONED:

We did a listener episode question on baby and toddler sleep, Listener Questions (Vol. 21): Episode 224(listen around the 30 minute mark)
Meagan liked The No-Cry Sleep Solution by Elizabeth Pantley, and Sarah liked Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Without Leaving Them to Cry it Out by Kim West (both links are Amazon affiliates), but we BOTH offer the huge caveat that it wasn’t about any one individual book for us; it was about finding what worked for our families

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from
0:05.2	little to grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages
0:09.0	of life, but we both know that motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share
0:12.7	tips and encouragement. And remind you that it's really all gonna be okay. We're
0:16.6	not experts. We're parents who've been there. We're not perfect. We're real.
0:19.9	Welcome to the mom hour. Hey everyone and welcome to episode 301 of the mom
0:26.5	hour. I am Sarah Powers here with Megan Francis. Hey Megan. Hey Sarah.
0:30.9	301. 301. 301. Here we go again. Another centennial. How did you sleep last
0:41.5	night? We're talking about sleep today. So I, well, when I went to bed, I fell asleep
0:46.9	and then I slept all the way until I woke up. That's the magic, right? Right. Yeah,
0:53.2	it wasn't even that it was that many hours. Actually, I think last night I went
0:55.9	to bed a little later than usual, but I did not awaken during the night, which
1:01.2	is, you know, something I could not have said in many times of motherhood. So about
1:05.6	you, you know, I almost always look over and see the clock at some point in the
1:09.6	middle. It's like our dog sleeps in our bed with us. And I'm just a really light
1:14.0	sleeper these days. But I would say last night was a very good night sleep. I went
1:17.5	to bed at a good time for me. And I think I saw the clock at like 245, but only
1:22.6	very briefly. So there was no major interruptions. I want to point something out, Sarah. I had
1:29.5	all of my kids sleep in my bed, but I told you did not, but I never had a dog sleep in
1:33.5	my bed. Interesting, except for our little jerk dog that we got rid of because he wouldn't
1:38.6	stop getting in my bed. That wasn't really the reason we got rid of him, but like, anyway,
1:44.0	would your cat sleep in your bed? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And she's abusive about it. But
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