There is the age old argument of SIDS and kids and don’t get me wrong it is a very scary thing but I also believe in doing what you think is right for your child and that your child is going to do what they want no matter what you do.

I no with SIDS they say that bub has to be sleep on their back but I couldn’t stop my first three from rolling over, they were all side sleepers or tummy sleepers no matter how many times at night I would change them they would still end up back the other way 🙂 and believe me there was many of nights where I sat with my hand near their nose to make sure they could still breath and they could they always left their head on an angle

You also always have the arguments on co-sleeping with your kids but by gosh if you haven’t slept in a few days and the only way your baby is going to sleep is with you then I would do it, correction I have done it with each and every one of my kids at one stage or another. I personally thinks it a preference you see there are some people out there who roll and move a lot in there sleep and don’t really recognise if someone else is next to them so of course with people like this it is dangerous but there are also people that once a little one is next to them they don’t move or they are hyper-aware of that child being there. I am lucky and I am one of those ones that just don’t move once a little human is laying next to them, you see once they are asleep I’m asleep and I wake up in the exact same position as before haha I must say with a very dead arm but I have gotten used to it 🙂

There is also the debate on dummies and once again it’s a preference. I have had dummies with all of my kids my first 2 girls had one for about 4 months then didn’t want it anymore, my son had it for 18 months then we cold turkey’d him and took it away and he hasn’t asked for it since and our youngest has one now and I have had all the nurse around say it is a God sent with her so do what you think is right not what others think you should do.

My next thing to do with settling and oh I no there are people out there that will get angry but once again it was my choice, each of my kids have had a snuggly. For my eldest she for some reason attached to a blue nosed lamb that she was given for her 1st Christmas at the age of 4 months and she never let it go again, she still has it now but doesn’t rely on it anymore like she used to it’s more decoration than anything. My second was about a year old and she got a stuffed lemur and she started to snuggle with that and then later got a wombat and she sleeps with both of them now. Our son as I have said before is obsessed with horses and you see my nan passed away 15 years ago but before she went my last present from her was a large stuffed my little pony and I have kept it up so the kids couldn’t get at it but when I was packing up the house my son saw it and instantly attached and now sleeps with it each night with it right next to his head, it even shares a pillow with him haha and my youngest has a a really bad habit but for her it’s a comfort as the doctors have said of hanging on to her ears so we gave her a soft raccoon toy that she clings to instead of ripping her hair out and it has worked, she also has a singing teddy that helps keep her asleep as she can’t stand the quiet

I have also found and have had many strangle looks for this that white noise is an amazing tools to help settle a child. Now when you first hear it it will drive you crazy but once you see the effects I never turned back. Now for a lot of people that don’t know what white noise is, it literally sounds like static but it is supposedly similar to noise that they hear in the womb. You can download on app on your phone or just turn a radio change over to channel with no service and you will have the noise that could very well change your life 🙂

I would love to hear if you use any particular methods and please remember these are chooses you make, I am just writing about the ones I decided to make, but I am no doctor and as many would know some doctor’s wouldn’t agree with what I have chosen to do but they were my decisions to make 🙂

Talk again soon CC ❤