'It's the best money I've ever spent': Upscale real 広い地所 スパイ／執行官 支払う／賃金s $30 an hour to have her 幼児 son sleep trained while she spends a night away at a?$349-a-night spa drinking margaritas and eating Chilean sea bass

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A mother has 明らかにする／漏らすd that she paid somebody else to sleep train her baby - while she and her husband went on a spa 訴える手段／行楽地 vacation.

Katy Landrum said it was the 'the best money I've ever spent', even though it cost hundreds of dollars for the professional sleep trainer.

Landrum, 34, a real 広い地所 スパイ／執行官., said that she is a working mother who could not do without her 残り／休憩（する）.

She （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that the vacation with her husband Travis, 37 - where she drank Margaritas and ate Chilean sea bass - left her better able to 対処する with juggling motherhood and a career.

In a 地位，任命する on Redbook, Landrum said that she knew people would 'roll their 注目する，もくろむs', but she could not afford to let her 商売／仕事 苦しむ if she was exhausted.

Real 広い地所 スパイ／執行官 Katy Landrum, of Los Angeles says 支払う／賃金ing someone to sleep train her baby while she took a vacation was 'the best money I ever spent'

Landrum, who lives in Los Angeles, California, said that she turned to a sleep trainer because of her experience with her first child.

She wrote that she did not sleep train her daughter, who is now two and a half, until she was five months old because she 'hated listening to her wail in her crib'.

The 過程 left her feeling 強調する／ストレスd out and with 捕らえる、獲得するs under her 注目する，もくろむs.

When Landrums' son Bo was born she decided to do things 異なって.

Through a friend she was put in touch with a woman called Deb, who Landrum says has ten years experience as a sleep trainer.

And the $30-an-hour 料金 did not put Landrum off because she saw it as money 井戸／弁護士席 spent.

She turned to a sleep trainer for her second child, Bo, after not sleep training her daughter (pictured above as a baby) until she was five months old

Landrum wrote on the blog: 'When our son was born, my husband reminded me that 早期に sleep training would 利益 everyone in our family.

'As a self-雇うd realtor who 作品 十分な time, I 定期的に receive 調査s from （弁護士の）依頼人s looking to buy and sell homes, and I knew that ーするために 適切に 機能（する）／行事, sleep was a necessity.

'Our daughter is now two and a half and she's still a 広大な／多数の／重要な sleeper, so I knew we needed to do it again'.

Landrum said that this time around the 決定／判定勝ち（する） was a 'no-brainer'.

She wrote: 'It's so painful for me to listen to my babies cry, and I knew I didn't have the strength to do it again.'

With the 是認 of her pediatrician Landrum and Travis, drove two hours north to the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa and left Deb in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 at home.

For Landrum the 重要な thing is that she 'didn't want to be in earshot of Bo's weeping', she wrote.

The Ojai Valley 訴える手段／行楽地 is spread over 220 acres and is designed as a relaxing 逃亡 with citrus g roves for walking and mountains for 引き上げ（る）ing.

A night in the 1,500s- ft Sunset Penthouse cost $2,909 and it comes with a terrace, outdoor whirlpool and fireplace. Basic rooms at the spa cost $349 a night.

There are five restaurants at the 訴える手段／行楽地, where activities 含む ゴルフing, island excursions and 鯨 watching.

Landrum paid a woman 指名するd Deb $30 an hour while she and her husband spent a night at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, where basic rooms cost $349 a night

The spa 専攻するs in Kuyam 治療s, a mud 治療 from the 古代の Chumash people.

On the Ojai Valley website the spa is 述べるd as a 'Freedom Zone' which is 解放する／自由な from '独房 phones, electronics, pets and children'.

Landrum wrote that she was 'on such a high' when she checked into the 訴える手段／行楽地 as it was the 'first time in months my husband and I had been in the car without 叫び声をあげるing babies in the backseat'.

Their room was not ready when they checked in, so she changed into her swimsuit - Landrum says it was from designer Marysia where bikinis cost $150 - and got straight into the pool.

She wrote: 'I ordered a salad and a margarita on the 激しく揺するs with salt and entered 十分な 緩和 方式.

'While flipping through magazines and taking 下落するs to 冷静な／正味の off, I tried to stifle images of Bo, my three-month-old son, crying 支援する at home…

'...扱う／治療するing ourselves to a restful 退却／保養地 meant we could try to enjoy ourselves instead of dwelling on what was taking place at home.

'After a couple of cocktails, an afternoon of sun, and a few intimate minutes with my breast pump (I 捨てるd the contents), I settled into a Swedish massage at the spa.

'Over a meal of Chilean Seabass and 甘い pea puree, my husband and I didn't even really talk about what was going on at home.?

'Instead, we discussed how lucky we were to have two healthy babies and loosely planned a 未来 vacation to Mexico - we 全く checked out'.

Landrum, pictured above with her husband Travis, said that she knew people would 'roll their 注目する，もくろむs' over the fact that she paid someone to sleep train her son, but she could not afford to let her 商売／仕事 as a real 広い地所 スパイ／執行官 苦しむ if she was exhausted

Landrum 認める that she did have her moments of 疑問 and texted Deb to say she should 延期する the sleep training that night.

But Deb did it anyway and the next morning sent a 詳細（に述べる）d text of how it went.

Bo had woken up three times and cried for 40 minutes the first time, 25 minutes the next time and 10 minutes the time after that.

Landrum wrote: 'I was so relieved Deb was the one who had been there and not me.'

She and her husband （機の）カム home the next day and Deb stayed one more night to make sure Bo had got the message.

Landrum wrote that this time her son only cried once in the night, for 30 seconds at 4.30am.

Over the に引き続いて weeks Bo cried a few more times but Landrum did not go to his 補佐官, and he 徐々に became a good sleeper.

Landrum wrote: 'People probably roll their 注目する，もくろむs or laugh at me for going away and 支払う／賃金ing someone to let my baby cry it out, but I knew it needed to be done and I didn't want to put myself through the agony I experienced with my daughter.

'My mom and stepdad （機の）カム to town the day after we got home from Ojai and gave me grief because they're not 信奉者s in sleep training, but I'm a working mom and I couldn't continue to go on 存在 awake during the night.

'My days would be so much harder and my 商売／仕事 would 苦しむ if I weren't able to get a 十分な night sleep.

Landrum, pictured above with her husband, said that her son Bo is now sleeping through the night

'And you know what? It felt good to be able to tell them Bo was sleeping through the night - and that it was the best money I've ever spent.'

The 地位，任命する quickly became one of the most popular articles on Redbook.

It was also published on Yahoo where the 単独の comment was from a woman called Mandy who said: 'Disgusting.'

Landrum is 卒業生（する） from Arizona 明言する／公表する University with a bachelor's degree in 商売／仕事 Real 広い地所 and appeared on the HGTV's series Selling LA.

On Landrum's website, she says that 'honesty, 正直さ and fairness are the cornerstones of running her 商売／仕事 首尾よく'.

The website says: 'Katy's passion, 献身的な work ethic and youthful energy brings a 競争の激しい 辛勝する／優位 to the real 広い地所 商売／仕事'.

Landrum mostly 作品 with 豊富な （弁護士の）依頼人s and one of her 所有物／資産／財産s for sale is a $2.4million home in Studio City, California.

Another is a $2.5million 'bachelor pad' in Manhattan Beach that has its own roof deck.

In an interview for 所有物／資産／財産 website Zillow she said: 'I have learned that when 適切な時期s are 現在のd in your life, you have to take them with no 悔いるs.

'You can't take yourself too 本気で and just have fun everyday because life is too short not to enjoy the ride.'