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

Just the Good Stuff

#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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