Midnight has become my new "morning"......

kiki408

My girls (2 weeks old today) sleep SO WELL during the day. I have to wake them for feedings, even! However, as soon as I put them on their backs/sides in the PNP at night, everything goes to hell. They dont cry, but they're super restless. Grunting ,whining, fussing, rustling around, etc. Of course, me as a worried mommy, gets absolutely NO SLEEP due to their apparent discomfort (for lack of a better term).

To be honest, I dont mind that much.....I know it wont be like this for long and I'm SO in love that I overlook the sleep deprivation, but I would like some suggestions if you have any.....

Anyone else? They also sleep well propped up in their Boppies, on my chest, and even in their PNP during the day. Night time is a whole different story.

WW (or did)YD?

LoveTravel

I haven't had that experience with the boys, hopefully someone will be able to offer suggestions...I know one of my friends who had a singleton tried to keep her baby awake during the day, but in your case you have two and from the picture another child so that might be hard to do....I just wanted to say GL

Rinnie

I feel your pain.  I went through the same thing with my twins.  Although you seemed to have a better attitude about it then I did.

I used to sit on the floor in front of their bouncy chairs and just cry and be exhausted.  I would just pray for them to sleep for like 20 minutes together so I could rest my eyes.  I had to put them in the bouncy chairs because I was so tired I was shaking and I was afraid to hold them.  I was also still recovering from my c/s.

I also had another child but mine was only 20 months old when the boys were born.  My days were long, but my nights were even longer.

They slept like logs during the day and then once I was ready to go to bed they were wide awake.  They would then take what I called cat nap from like 12 - 7 or so.  They would maybe sleep a total of an hour or two and not a once or together!

The first month or two were heck for me as I was lucky if I got about an hour or two asleep a night.

I put the boys on a 3 hour schedule.  Every 3 hours without fail I would wake them up and change their diaper and then feed them and then change their diaper again.  I know the first month I wasted a lot of diapers doing this - but it was winter and cooler and it would wake them up to eat.

I would then try to keep them awake for a bit - not long about 20 minutes or so if I was lucky.  I would then bundle them back up and let them sleep until the next 3 hour mark if they wanted.

After the first month - I tried to put them in the swing, bouncy seat etc... for some more stimulation.

I also noticed that they lost it around 6-6:30 each night - so we made their bedtime around 715.  I guess around 6 weeks or so we started a bedtime routine and they would start to sleep until 11, then 12 and etc...  I would then go up to bed as soon as my DD was in bed which was 9.  And try to get some more rest before they woke up for their feeding.  They were like clock work - every 3 hours!

Around 13/14 weeks they would STTN.

I EBF the boys and they were always feed at the same time.  I had no time to pump so there wasn't an option for them to have a bottle from anyone else.

At night if 1 woke up, I woke the other up and feed them both.  It wasn't till 13 weeks we noticed that it was the same baby that kept waking up so we waited until the weekend when DH was home to help if it went wrong.  I only nursed the one baby and he went right back in the crib.  The other slept till 630 am.  Then they were both up and ate again.  By 14 weeks both babies were STTN.

 I had to get them on the same feeding and nap schedule and at almost 1 year old they still go down for a nap together and are still BF at the same time.

GL!