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1. He can fall asleep on his own just fine, but wakes up a probably twice a night, sitting up and repositioning himself or rolls around like crazy. He sleeps about 11 hours at night and naps once a day for 2 hours.

I'll combine points 2 and 3 of us. We're still co-sleeping (someone save me, please); and he has zero interest in sleeping on his own. So him sleeping in his own bed would fantastic. Sucks having him sleep in the middle between us. He's a heavy roller when he sleeps so when he's not inbetween us, he will roll off the bed. Sigh. This has happened several times when we've placed him on a queen sized bed. what the heck.

1. Where are your LO's now with sleep? How many times do they get up? How many hours do you average?
We just went through a rough patch with sleeping but it's been about a month of good. She goes to bed at 630 ( I know, it's crazy early, but after reading a bunch of stuff, I figured she was getting overtired and that's why she was sleeping horribly. 90% of the time she wakes up at 3 and needs a diaper change then I throw her a bottle and she typically sleeps until 8am. She's always required a lot of sleep. She takes 1 - 1.5hour nap around 1230. I'd like to get it to a 2 hour + nap as she's so tired by about 6 I could easily have her in bed by then.
2. What are your next steps in their sleep journey? I really need to get rid of the bottle.. but it just makes everything so easy! I throw her in her crib with a bottle and she never makes a peep until she wants up ( from a nap or for that diaper change.)
3. When are you planning to transition them to a big girl/boy bed, if you haven't already? I'm waiting as along as humanly possible to get her in a big girl bed. I know that's going to be a disaster!

@Kemma: haha! Good plan.

@.twist.: C has a paci called Nubbies and I'm dreading having to take it away.

@Grace: I just stopped feeding C at night by saying "Let's cuddle" or "Sleep time only, no milk" . It took about three nights of crying wake ups where I had to rock her for like 5 min, but now when she wakes up at night it's usually because she is still half asleep and goes back down easy!

I honestly cannot complain about sleep, she's a rockstar with that (brushing teeth, on the other hand, is a whole different story!).

1. Where are your LO's now with sleep? How many times do they get up? How many hours do you average? STTN and has been for quite a long time. My DH came up with a routine that works for us. When she starts looking tired (we have no set bed time, which is probably a bad thing), we turn off the lights, say good night to the Spike sticker above the light switch, turn on her noise machine, and put her in her crib with many kisses and hugs. She almost immediately puts her thumb in her mouth, but it pops out soon after she's asleep. In her crib are a taggie blankie, little shaky bird from a play set, her sleepy time Elmo, and her Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother aquarium, which has apparently been discontinued . God help us if that thing ever breaks. She goes right down and is usually asleep very quickly. Sometimes she'll wake back up, turn the aquarium back on, and go back to sleep. The only time we have a problem is when she's pooped, then she won't go back to sleep for obvious reasons!

2. What are your next steps in their sleep journey? I guess start working on setting a consistent bedtime.

3. When are you planning to transition them to a big girl/boy bed, if you haven't already? If we have another LO, she'll probably be at a good age to transition to a big girl bed at that time. The crib's working well for us right now.

Edited to add link to TRU Baby Einstein Sea Soother. Amazon says discontinued: http://www.toysrus.com/buy/sound-and-light-soothers/baby-einstein-sea-dreams-soother-90609-12482416

1. LO STTN 11-12 hours in his crib. Occationally he stirs, but goes right back down when I talk to him over the monitor. He takes a 1.5-2 hour nap at 11 in his PNP, he has never really done naps in his crib. I have been lucky, LO has always been a good sleeper.

2. Nothing soon, either transition naps to the crib, or transition to A big boy bed. I hope to not do either at least unil I have another baby, and we have not started TTC yet. a later nap might be nice, but we plan to just follow LO's cues on that.

3. No time soon. Waiting until 3 appeals to me, because that is when I would feel comfortable with him roaming the house unattended. We hope to have another baby before then, so that might necissitate an earlier transition. Also, LO is a climber, but he likes his crib, and sleeps in a sleep sack, so that might delay climbing out of the crib.

1.DD's sleep improved drastically once we stopped nursing (October). Now, she STTN every night from 7-6:30ish. And at the end of our bedtime routine she excitedly says "nigh-nigh" and goes down without protest!
2. I'm thinking of weaning out the white noise, but our floors are so darn creaky that I'm not sure it's a good idea while we are still in this house.
3. When she tries to climb out of her crib!? I'm pregnant with #2 (due in Sept) and we are prepared to buy a 2nd crib if DD continues to be the sleep champ that she currently is.