"Down" With The Green's

When your baby is diagnosed with Down Syndrome, one of the first things the doctors do is talk about all of the signature Down Syndrome characteristics and differences that your baby will have. They will talk about their almond-shaped eyes that could have sight problems. They will discuss their low set and small ears that are prone to infection and hearing loss. They will mention them having a tongue that is 50% larger making it hard to annunciate. They will say the baby will have a sandal gap toe. You will hear all about their low muscle tone and smaller build that will make it harder to hit milestones. They will also talk about them having a heart that has a 50% chance of abnormalities.  While all of these characteristics make our babies different than others, instead of seeing them as bad things, we need to embrace our babies' uniqueness and see all the positives of their differences.  We say that her almond-shaped eyes allow her to see the world in a whole new light. Those beau

  As a mom of two kids under the age of 3, I am no stranger to being woken up in the middle of the night by my kids. In the early months of my kids’ lives, I spent countless nights getting up 3, 4, or even up to 5 times a night to soothe a baby back to sleep. So today I’m going to give you a little background on my sleep training journey with my kids and the steps I have taken to get my kids to sleep 12+ hours through the night.  It wasn’t until my first baby was 6 months old that I finally hit my breaking point and decided I had to do something to get him to sleep through the night. He was old enough to where I knew he wasn’t waking up because he was hungry, and that it was simply because he didn’t know how to put himself back to sleep if he woke up in the middle of the night. This is when I began my search for sleep training methods. Sleep training is very important for getting your child to sleep through the night. The sleep training method I used was a modified version of the F