We welcomed our fourth baby and first son, James, into the world last February, and he has just been the happiest baby!

Rather than being the “easy” last baby, however, he struggled with sleep from day one. We never had any intentions of co-sleeping and really weren’t comfortable with it, but we didn’t have another option the first several weeks of his life. He was not able to lie flat to sleep without making an awful grunting or choking noise for the first 12 weeks of his life, so we had to hold him upright for all naps and through the night.

In this podcast episode, I share all the details of those first 12 weeks, as well as the next several months of a roller coaster of sleep, as we continued learning more about what was going on (hint: airyway issues!).

I share about how tough those sleepless nights were and how that impacted us as parents and as a family. I also share about when we finally got the green light to sleep train him!

Next week, I will share about what it was like to finally be able to sleep train him at 9 months old, and exactly what that process looked like for us.