I asked parents how Trixie Tracker had helped them. Jena, proud mother of four boys, wrote to let me know how Trixie Tracker gave her the information she needed when trying to address her son’s chronic sleep and napping problems. Here’s what she said:
Nico is my 4th son but the first one whose sleep was so out of whack. He slept 8hrs/night straight for the first 5 months but hardly napped and when he started napping, his night times went awful.
I started tracking him at 7 months using TT so I could see any patterns developing, see how much actual sleep he was getting, and have records to back up what I suspected. By 20 months, even my pedi had to agree that he was not getting an average amount of sleep and that it was time to start delving deeper into things and we were referred to a developmental pedi. After talking to him and a behaviorist pedi, we were finally referred to a sleep specialist neurologist. I was able to show him our records for months so he could see the patterns (or in our case, the lack of them) and how long it would take to put him down at night.
He was able to see what our problems were and see that we really had done everything behaviorally that we could do and recommended putting our son on melatonin. With that, his average sleep has gone from 9hrs/day to almost 10½hrs/day but none of that would have been nearly as easy to get done if I hadn’t had all the records right at my fingertips to show the doctors at every step of the way. My son is much happier now that he gets more sleep and we are as well.
I really can’t imagine trying to have kept a sleep log on my own to be able to show the doctors what we were dealing with so TT has definitely been, if not a life saver, a sanity saver for me.
Parents almost always know when something is a little off with their babies, but sometimes it’s hard to for them to put their finger on it. That’s where Trixie Tracker really shines. It connects the dots and shows you the patterns because it’s impossible to keep all that information in your head – especially if you are sleep deprived.
I’m glad Trixie Tracker was able to back-up Jena’s parental instincts so she could help her son and get her whole family back on a good sleep schedule. Jena, thanks so much for sharing your story.
