When you’re pregnant, one thing so many people will say to you is “enjoy your sleep while you can!” Totally terrifying. You mean I’m not going to sleep ever again like a normal person? When does that end? How are other parents doing it? I still have to go to work on no sleep?? That sounds AWFUL. But I’m here to tell you that it’s not totally true. There will be some nights you don’t sleep as much as you would have before you were a mom, but your nights of sleeping are not over.

I was walking with one of my new mom friends when Max was about a month old, and we were comparing notes about how our babies sleep. She told me about how her baby slept almost all the way through the night from the beginning, but since I was struggling a little bit she told me that one of her friends had told her about this book called “Moms on Call“. She told me it was a pretty strict regimen, with rules about everything from how long babies can eat, to what they have in their room, to how long their naps can be. I decided to look into it just to see what the schedule might look like since so many people told me that I should get Max on a schedule anyway, and I didn’t really know what a schedule for a baby should look like.