Last Night Was Bad
The night before last was great. F slept 8 hours without waking, and even J only got up a few times. Last night was karmic payback; there wasn’t a single hour between 10 and 5 that I wasn’t up with someone.
I realized the other day that I haven’t slept more than five hours in a row in over a year. And, let’s be honest, five hours is a luxury. Three is about what I expect these days.
Last night was bad. I tried co-sleeping. I tried sleeping them in their cribs. Nothing really worked. Instead of going back down after nursing, F sat up in her crib and cried for me. When I brought her to bed she fussed and complained that she wasn’t in her crib. No one was happy, and I have no idea why.
I wish I could figure out the pattern, if there even is one, so I could replicate what I am doing on the “good nights” every night.
Stumble it!
and the 529 college savings accounts get a kickback.
April 19th, 2007 10:41
Searching for patterns can help, and it can be frustrating. It is sometimes way too tempting to say, “Well, co-sleeping worked tonight, so it should work every night.” But, it is so rarely that easy. It got to the point with me that when something worked, I was just grateful it worked that time. Once S cried for hours. Hours. We put a shirt with a clown on him and he stopped. That time. Whew!
April 19th, 2007 10:51
oh god love, I can so relate to this. Last night was the first night since the chicken pox that the boys have had a decent nights sleep. Before then Tommy was waking up every hour crying and in desperation I resorted to co-sleeping (I have NO issue with co-sleeping other than the impracticality of trying to do it with twins). Our childminder fears that this could be habit forming though which would leave Nate feeling left out.
I think that I may have stumbled on the solution this time though. I have upped the amount of solids that they have. They are now on a full Oatibix (the oats version of wheetabix) in the early morning, followed by toast. Fruit and cheese at lunchtime, vegetables and chicken at about 4:30pm and a snack or fruit puree at 5:30. I have also moved things around a little so that they have 8 ounce bottles at 6:30pm and 10:30pm. Last night at least, this worked – if it works tonight we may be onto something
I’ll be thinking about you later and hoping that it all works out ok!
Drop by if you want some support!
April 19th, 2007 10:58
((hugs))
I only have one and I haven’t slept through the night (like 5 hours) but once or twice in the past year. We coslept the first 6 months, which worked at the time. But once he got bigger we kept waking eachother up and I moved him to the crib. It’s still a struggle. ONCE he slept from 11 to 6, but the past three days he’s been up every 1-2 hours. I’m tired of blaming it on teething, but I can’t figure it out. Bad days follow good nights follow bad nights. It just doesn’t make sense. : )
April 19th, 2007 12:54
I’m so sorry, and I wish I couldn’t relate. Last night I had 3 hours of straight sleep with no one sleeping on me and I feel like a new person. Because that is so rare. And I also find it really challenging to find patterns. And I desperately envy my friends who said it will get better at 3 (or 6 or whatever) months and now have babies who sleep 8+ hours consecutively because that is so not our house. I hope, hope, hope you all have a better night tonight. And that there’s sunshine by you today.
April 19th, 2007 13:32
oh my can I ever relate to you too!! I’m dead tired here today and can only DREAM of a time in the future when they go to bed and stay asleep for more than a few hours at a time. I’ve had 3 kids before these ones, and they all eventually started sleeping around 2 or 3 years, but twins is such a different story in the meantime. I’m not sure how I cope during the day without sleep at night, but somehow we all get through. Hope you have a good sleep tonight!
April 19th, 2007 20:42
We had a bad night too…hopefully tonight will be a lot more restful for all of us.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned so far it’s that there’s no rhyme or reason to sleep patterns. I think I have things figured out, then they change. If I bother to predict how a night is going to be, based on a less-than-scientific assessment of a myriad of variables, I am almost always wrong. Now if I think it’s going to be a bad night then I think, well I’m usually wrong, so it’ll probably be a good night.
April 20th, 2007 09:35
Testing, testing. Will this actually work? Sure hope that last night went much better. I was at the Goodwill store yesterday and succumbed to yet another copy of “Green Eggs and Ham”. I think you already have one. Right? I just love that book so much I can’t pass it up. I’ll keep it here for when they visit (or just to read myself). The store also had “Barnyard Dance”, but I didn’t buy that one. I do have quite a stack of books to bring with me.
April 22nd, 2007 07:49
Oh lord, this terrifies me – my boys are now nearly 5 months and I’ve slept through the night once since last September when I got too big to sleep through turning over. The one night I slept was when we blew our discretionary weekly income on a night nurse who stayed with the boys in another room all night – I slept for seven hours and oh, it was wonderful. Unfortunately that’s something we can’t afford more than once in a blue moon, and my breasts didn’t thank me for it the next morning, but it was the best money I’ve ever spent.
Now – I’m lucky to get a good three hours, and I feel grateful when I do. I was hoping things will improve, but maybe I’ve got a few more months of this ahead of me …