June 20, 2023

Just The Good Chat: Family of 5 Update + Sleep Training

53 minutes

#84: In this episode of Just The Good Stuff we are kicking off our series of Just The Good Chat, where Jordan and I chat about different life updates and answer some of our listeners questions. Think: even more of what you see on Instagram stories. In this episode we give an update about our experiences as parents of 3 kids ages four and under and our experience sleep training for the third time.

Here are some of the topics discussed in this episode:

Raising three children:

Tips going from 0 to 1, 1 to 2 and 2 to 3 kids

What parts of the transition to 3 has been the hardest

How we knew we wanted to have three children

How we stay connected and make time for one another

How to keep each kids schedule without interrupting another

Bed time with 3 kids and 2 parents

Regressions when siblings came

Will Jordan get a vasectomy?

Sleep Training:

Our sleep training method

What age to sleep train

Did we hire anyone to help with the sleep training

Tips to deal with the crying

When to transition to a sleepsack

How to eliminate middle of the night feedings

Is there an age it's too late to do sleeptraining?

Is there an age it's too early to do sleeptraining?

Tips on removing the swaddle

Other questions:

Tips on dealing with a baby who is colic

Tips on dealing with big toddler feelings

Limiting portion sizes for kids

Names we liked but didn't use for our kids

+ SO much more!

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