Patrick was a horrible sleeper. I hardly ever put him down, I was never away from him and he slept in our bed until he was 18 months. He was still sneaking into our bed when he has 5! Now he sleep walks (last time he grabbed a bottle of wine off the counter) and has to read a book to fall asleep. He never learned how to self-soothe (no pacifier or anything, I was his pacifier). High maintenance.
Keith was seriously baby wise. He slept in his own bed at six weeks. Not only that, he slept through the night! This wasn't "sleeping through the night" as in 4 hours, he slept for 9 hours and I would have to wake him up in the morning. And he would take great naps. (now we are learning that he has a ENT issue but more on that some other day). He learned how to self-soothe early and that was fantastic. Lovely baby.
Now we have Lauren. You would think that I would have it figured out but I don't want to figure it out. Neither of us is racing to get her to sleep in her crib. She has no real set schedule. She often naps for hours in her car seat. She catnaps most days and then one day will take a three-hour nap (fat stores!). She is our first pacifier baby and that has positives and negatives. Bottom-line: she's pretty high maintenance. So sometimes she falls asleep while she's nursing and I stay in one spot for extended periods. sigh.
