Thankful Thursday

Seemingly not too long ago we had some major sleep issues in our house. Norah would scream (a terrible loud screeching scream) the second we would lay her in her crib. If we did manage to get her transferred into her crib without her waking up it wasn't long before she noticed and freaked out. She was only 6ish months old and so I wasn't comfortable with letting her cry it out and so she ended up in our bed A LOT which is something I never planned for. When she was about 8-9 months old she started to get better but was still waking up 3ish times a night and it was exhausting. 
That doesn't sound too thankful though. My thankful part is that she now sleeps and for the most part sleeps well. We put her down in her crib awake for both her nap and for bedtime and rub her back for no more than 5 minutes (most nights) and she's out and stays put. She is sleeping from about 7pm-6am depending on the night and while I'm pregnant so even if I slept 15 hours a night I'd still be tired - I'm thankful for a normal sleep pattern. 
When she wasn't sleeping even at a year old and several of our friends had infants sleeping through the night it was frustrating and it felt like we were doing something wrong. Maybe we should be letting her cry it out? No, we weren't really comfortable with that - especially because even when we left her in her room for only 2 minutes at a time she got so worked up she would throw up and after changing her sheets multiple times we decided it just wasn't for our family (or at least with her). We still felt like our daughter was out of the norm and that we were doing something wrong. 
Then we did some research and discovered it is very common for children to not sleep through the night until 2 and sometimes not until 3-4. A lot of it depends on if they are prone to fully waking in between sleep cycles. Some children sleep right through that sleep cycle transition, other's don't. 
I'm thankful she does now :)
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