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[quote=Anonymous]Once my first was sleep trained at 4 months, it probably took me another month or two to regain my balance, catch up on sleep, etc, but then I was well rested and not super stressed for large chunks of his babyhood/early toddlerhood. There were things in there that would pop up (notably moving) that would stress me out again and I would be busy and not able to get enough sleep and rest, but I always came back.

We had our second when the first was 19 months. The first four months were hell. I hated every living second of it and had a raging case of PPD. But, I got into therapy, we sleep trained again at 4 months, and I'm already feeling much better. She's almost six months now. I wouldn't say I'm well rested yet, still catching up on sleep and various crap that got ignored the last few months. It'll definitely take longer to get back on top of things now that there are two. But I'd be really surprised if I wasn't back to well rested by... April?

But I prioritize sleep and downtime. We sleep train early. I'm the person who pops up on a thread every now and then saying that I only wash my sheets monthly and gets called gross. We have a monthly cleaning person and do basically no other cleaning between (also called gross). We do independent playtime. We don't make homemade baby food, Gerber purees for us. We're insane about sleep schedules and sleep hygiene for the kids. And most importantly, I have an equal partner husband who does half.

Enjoy your super clean sheets. I'll enjoy my sanity. Seems like a very worthwhile trade off. [/quote]

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