My fourth daughter, Rachel, was born on the second-last day of 2018. She subsequently did not sleep for more than two hours in a row until halfway through 2020. Both of these historical details were surprising because we had referred to Rachel as “Baby Dinan 2019” for the entirety of Vivien’s pregnancy and because we considered ourselves expert sleep trainers, since our three previous daughters had all slept through the night by three months old.
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