For months, bedtime took three hours. Every. Single. Night.

Jacqui had seven-month-old twin girls and every evening felt like survival. One baby would finally fall asleep, the other would wake. Just as she settled one, the other needed her again. Night after night, she wondered if this was simply life with twins.

In this episode, Jacqui shares what those evenings really looked like, the exhaustion, the constant second guessing and the feeling that she was doing everything she could, yet nothing seemed to help.

She talks about the moment she stopped collecting random sleep tips and started understanding what was actually happening biologically. Why babies wake between sleep cycles. Why bedtime had become such a battle. And why having a consistent plan changed everything, even with two babies, and how sleep training them changed her life.

Sophia also shares on this episode about the safety behind sleep training and the impact of sleep deprivation on new parents and their babies. Sophia explains how sleep training a baby in isolation of their routine is often the reason families fail, seeing sleep from a much bigger perspective and working on infant routines is so important.

If you've ever spent hours trying to get your baby to sleep, felt trapped by bedtime battles or wondered why your baby just won't settle, this episode will make you feel a whole lot less alone.

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