I suspect there are near countless variations on this technique that would work, but this is the way I tried, and I’m reluctant to test out alternatives and gamble with my sleep. In the past two months of sending my spirit to sleep in her room, my daughter has woken up only four times.3 This is a vast improvement over the 3-5 nights per week that she had been waking up, and I know some of that success is directly attributable to this magic.
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I started using this technique around the winter holidays, but I only have hard data from the past two months because I clear out my sleep-tracker that often. Her sleep has been steadily improving since January, barring a recent, thankfully mild, illness that kept her up all night for several days.
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