Sleep Lady Shuffle: Update

It’s been awhile now since we ended our adventures with the Sleep Lady Shuffle, so I thought some of you might be interested to know how it has been around here since I ended my daily updates.

In a word: FABULOUS.

Every night we go through our bedtime regimen of “bottle, bath, book, bed,” and every night she points to her bed as we end her bedtime story. We lay her down (whichever of us is at bat that night) and she curls up on her side, making nary a peep, and goes to sleep. What’s more, if she wakes up or has reason to cry a little at night, she puts herself right back to sleep. On the rare occasion that we have (felt we had to) leap from our bed to go up to her, she has been asleep again before we even reached the stairs.

Seriously.

I’ve even been able to use the same method (or close to it, excluding the bath) before her naps during the day. It works beautifully.

If your child has any issues with sleep, I recommend this book. You don’t have to do everything the book says because, like I mentioned in my review, she addresses mainly worst case scenarios. You can tweak her advice to fit your family’s needs, and if you stick with it, I can almost guarantee that it will work.

Try it. I still can’t believe how well it works. As my own mom said, “I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.”