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How I get my kids to sleep through the night

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  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...