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By Cassi Tyler
I had always co-slept, at least partially,
from the time I brought Jordan home from the hospital. At
first, he started out the night in his crib and when he got up,
I brought him into our bed. When he was 4 months old he
started getting up a lot due to teething pain, so I just co-slept
with him full-time. My husband was having a problem with
this as space was limited, so we bought a king size bed and that
helped my husband deal with it. When Jordan turned 12 months
old, my husband once again started complaining about Jordan sleeping
with us as Jordan was still getting up a lot at night to nurse.
So we decided to move him into his own room, but we wanted to
do it in a gentle way that didn’t involve crying it out. I
also wanted to cutback on his night nursing as he was getting
up 3-6 times to nurse and I wanted to do this as gently as possible.
What we did was put away the crib, why waste time in trying
to get him to sleep in it. We then child-proofed his room,
put our old queen mattress on the floor and a gate at the door
for safety reasons. I also accepted that this wasn’t
going to happen overnight.
We kept his usual bedtime routine and I nursed him to sleep as
usual. I would go into his room with him when he woke up
and nurse him back to sleep. I gave him a couple of days
to get used to not being in our bed and then I started cutting
back his nursing time, telling him as I unlatched him "It’s
okay to roll over and go to sleep". Sometimes this
worked and sometimes I had to continue to nurse him. In
the beginning, I was in there most of the night but as he got
used to this new nighttime arrangement, he started sleeping longer
stretches and I rarely had to stay in his room to get sleep. By
the time he was 17 months old, he was only getting up 0-1 time
a night, which was much better than the 3-6 times a night.
When he was around 22 months old, we bought him a twin bed and
moved the queen mattress into the spare bedroom. He slept
in his new bed without it changing his pattern. Around this
time, we also wanted to change his going to sleep routine to one
where he didn’t nurse to sleep. So what I did was
nurse him to the count of 10 on each side, rock him and sing to
him. I then laid down with him in his bed until he fell
asleep. He accepted this and will now go to sleep by himself
in his room some of the time, which is okay, he is only 2 years
old and is still learning independence.
There are times when he does come into our bed, such as when he
is sick, when his teething bothers him (he is getting his
2 year molars) or when he has had a bad dream. He has no
problem going to sleep in his room after the nights he is in our
bed.
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