What are you GLAD you did, and would definitely do again?

[Charlyfrog]

I'm glad that I also persevered with bf.

Glad I adopted baby sign language particularly for manners - we too didn't "baby talk" - we implemented please and thank you right from the beginning (DD#1 always looked confused when people would say, 'ta' when asking for something from her, say 'please' and she'd respond! )

......and finally, routine routine routine. Yes we did,for want of a better phrase, controlled crying as well as routine feeding. Not a popular thing I am very much aware and yet no negative side effects here! Both girls are fantastic eaters and sleepers - DD#1 sleeping through at 8/9 weeks and DD#2 sleeping through at approx 3&1/2 months. Hard work yes but so worth the pay off


ETA: just wanted to qualify the controlled crying too......we'd never let the girls go longer than 10 minutes at a time and less if they reached a peak in that time We never let them cry til they fell asleep exhausted. Always checking checking checking but generally, they'd only ever need one check and then off with noddy they went to play You just get to know your baby's cries iykwim and being on routine made it even easier to pick up their behaviours and what it'd mean