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This weekend made me realise how much the Baby Sense book meant to me, and I just have to say thank you!!!

We went away for the long weekend with another couple. Susie is just over a year and their baby is 10 months old. I followed Baby Sense with absolutely every thing right from Susie’s birth. The other mother also read the book but decided that the “routine” will not work for them. There were days during the past year that I doubted our routine: Shopping could not be for longer than an hour (only during awake times and with feeding and driving deducted). We never took Susie with us to a busy restaurant in the evening and made her fall asleep with a bottle under the table (she was placed in her own familiar bed at home happily awake). This meant that we spend most of the first year at home or with close friends and family. The other couple had a ball of a time and travelled the country, went to music festivals, and had very late nights in pubs (their baby did not change their world at all). I thought I was doing this baby thing all wrong until this weekend….

Susie loved it at the sea during her normal awake times. When it was time for her nap, I would calm her and put her in bed with her white noise cd (this blocked out all the new and strange sounds). It took me less than a minute and we could continue having fun. In the evening she would go to bed with her slumber sack around 6:30 and sleep through the night until 6:30 the next morning. What a bliss! The other couple struggled for hours to get their baby to sleep. Eventually they would give up, and keep the baby awake for another couple of hours, guessing what could have been wrong - hunger, nappy, wind? Their baby was over stimulated and cried a lot. They could never relax and just have fun with us.

I realised that our first year at home was worth it. I understood Susie, and she felt secure. Everything continued as normal and we could relax and have fun with her.

Thank you Baby Sense