Collecting all the necessary items for a trip away from home can already fill your mind with an anxious to-do list and then, you have children. That list is now a million pages long and you begin to think… but wouldn’t life just be simpler if we stayed home. Not only are you worried about all the things to pack, you now have the worry that your little one may not sleep away from home.

Stating the words "Sleep Training," out loud first felt a bit odd when speaking to friends and family when beginning this journey. In my 23 years of life never once had I met a family who had talked about, implemented or encouraged Sleep Training. Shoot, I do not think I even knew that sleep training was something that even existed. Let's be honest, I had absolutely no idea.

Your 14-month-old has been sleeping through the night since you sleep trained at 6 months. Not only were you receiving 11-12 hours of nighttime sleep, but you were able to lay your little one down for two naps a day receiving a solid 1.5 hours of rest from your baby with each nap. Then, all of a sudden, the last two weeks things have been a disaster. Your baby is now protesting their first nap and not falling asleep the entire 1.5 hours they are in their crib. They then, become overtired and are crashing hard for their second nap and it is difficult to wake them up. Once bedtime rolls around they begin to either protest, or crash immediately and then, have night waking’s.