A few weeks ago, we celebrated my daughter's second birthday with a Minnie Mouse beach party. We were on a local beach vacation for the week in the midst of a 24 month sleep regression, and Camryn had been waking up every night, barely napping, throwing tantrums left and right, and acting extremely clingy and extra demanding. She spent half of her party freaking out and melting down, and as I rocked her to sleep that night, I shed a few tears of disappointment over yet another otherwise nice day being upended by the stress of parenthood to Cammie. Every tooth and every possible regression have equated to these kinds of draining days, weeks and months. The truth is, I don't have a laidback toddler, and I never had a laidback baby either. There's been little that's easy about ... [Read More]