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Luke has never ever gone to bed easily.  Since he was born he has just been a troubled sleeper.  He was a year before he slept through the night which is totally different then the other three who sleep through the night (with a few exceptions) at 4-6 months.  But not Luke he was up ever two hours for a year and then just stopped.  But he will still scream himself to sleep.  For hours.  It was heart breaking.  Nothing worked.  We had a semi routine but with the older kids in activities then it was tough.  We were really struggling on what to do with him.  Lots of prayers on this kids behalf.  Actually I have probably said more prayers for him and for me because of him then all my other kids combined.

Fast forward to the beginning of the year.  Kids were heading back to school and Victoria could not go to sleep until 10 or later because of screaming Luke. So I did a ton of research and prayed about it and it all came back to the fact that Luke needed a routine.  So that is what we did.  We did do a few nights of melatonin and there has been some rough nights but all in all it has been mostly successful.  Tonight he didn't cry at all.  It has been great.  So much so that I am fairly certain that traveling with Duke when he can have his own bedroom to fall asleep will be much better then traveling with him last summer.  

I am looking forward to our 2016 traveling instead of dreading it. 

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