What are they doing??? (sleep question)

Ruby_Tuesday

They all STTN twice last week for the first and second time ever.  Then things deterioriated from there.  Yesterday they got up super early and then took a brief morning nap and a long afternoon nap from 12:30-2:30 (is when I woke them) but then they were up until bedtime at 6:30 which may have left them overtired, idk?  I ended up going from room to room to room from 8:30-12:00 last night while they woke up again and again. 

They are doing the same thing today.  They have been down since 12:30.  I told the nanny to wake them at 3.  I can't take another night like last night.  I kept getting them back down and they kept popping back up a half an hour later.  Ugh.  What are they doing?

Eriksgal

I have no advice!  But I wanted to ask you do you have the three of them in speparate rooms?  We are trying to figure out our room arrangements right now.  We do have three bedrooms we could use-upstairs or we were considering having our formal living room downstairs converted into a nursery so we don't have to go up and down the stairs (our room is downstairs).  Just wanted to gte your thoughts-sorry to hijack!

Ruby_Tuesday

No problem Eriksgal.  We started out in one room but they were waking each-other so we separated them, but now I think they are waking eachother through the walls!  I hear & read that most babies sleep through their siblings fussing but not mine.  I think most triplets can share a room successfully.

Haven1

Ruby_Tuesday:

long afternoon nap from 12:30-2:30 (is when I woke them) but then they were up until bedtime at 6:30 which may have left them overtired, idk?

I'm not much help beyond, yes, awake for four hours is far too long at 5+ months.  That's the absolute longest mine can be up at 9+ months. 

Eriksgal

Thanks!  I guess we will see how it goes and make alternate arrangments if need be!

blondek8

My guys pulled all kinds of weird nighttime wakings and weird daytime nap stuff right before they started STTN consistently, which was right around the same time as your 3. They STTN 2 nights in a row, didn't nap great either day and then didn't STTN again for another week and a bit. Then they just did it one night and we haven't looked back. Naps are a little effed up lately around here and we do get up in the night to replace soothers (sometimes no times and sometimes up to 5 a night). I'm of no helpful advice here ... I just babble. Good luck to ya and I hope they keep STTN. It's pretty awesome.

ETA: Awake times for mine between naps are max 2-2.5hours. Sometimes if H is around we can push it to 3 if their schedule is a bit off before bedtime but they are a hot mess if we do.

Ruby_Tuesday

Haven1:

Ruby_Tuesday:

long afternoon nap from 12:30-2:30 (is when I woke them) but then they were up until bedtime at 6:30 which may have left them overtired, idk?

I'm not much help beyond, yes, awake for four hours is far too long at 5+ months.  That's the absolute longest mine can be up at 9+ months. 

But if I give them another nap at 4:30 they will practically be waking up at bedtime.  They usually wake from their third nap at 4.  Maybe I should just let them take a late third nap and push back bedtime.  Who would have thought a nap schedule could be this complicated.

Ruby_Tuesday

blondek8:

My guys pulled all kinds of weird nighttime wakings and weird daytime nap stuff right before they started STTN consistently, which was right around the same time as your 3. They STTN 2 nights in a row, didn't nap great either day and then didn't STTN again for another week and a bit. Then they just did it one night and we haven't looked back. Naps are a little effed up lately around here and we do get up in the night to replace soothers (sometimes no times and sometimes up to 5 a night). I'm of no helpful advice here ... I just babble. Good luck to ya and I hope they keep STTN. It's pretty awesome.

I'm going to cling to this shred of hope.  They are getting to be so fun during the day.  I just wish I was rested enough to really enjoy it.

 

ddub09

Could you put them down at 12:30 and let them sleep as long as they want? If they slept until 3:30 then it would only be three hours of awake time.

curlygurl

Ruby_Tuesday:

Haven1:

Ruby_Tuesday:

long afternoon nap from 12:30-2:30 (is when I woke them) but then they were up until bedtime at 6:30 which may have left them overtired, idk?

I'm not much help beyond, yes, awake for four hours is far too long at 5+ months.  That's the absolute longest mine can be up at 9+ months. 

But if I give them another nap at 4:30 they will practically be waking up at bedtime.  They usually wake from their third nap at 4.  Maybe I should just let them take a late third nap and push back bedtime.  Who would have thought a nap schedule could be this complicated.

I agree with the others that they're probably getting too much awake time between their naps and bedtimes. I was dealing with this exact scenario about a month or so ago, and like you, I was worried that waking up from a nap at 4:30 was too close to bed time and would mess everything up. But what I found was that even when my kiddos would sleep until 4:30-5:00 pm, they were still ready for bed at their usual bedtime, which is 6:30ish. Well, 2 out of the 3 were. But I was still having tons of problems with one of my boys going down and staying down each night. It would either take 2-3 hours each night to put him down or he'd go down easily, but then he'd wake up anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours later, then be awake for 2+ hours. It was driving me batty!! I finally decided to try putting him down for the night 30 minutes earlier going on the theory that he was just too overtired/overstimulated, and voil?...my life changed!! Even when he naps until 4:30 or later, my boy is ready for bed at 6. On the few nights that I've tried to put him down a little later, it's taken him a good 2 hours or more to fall asleep. All that to say...maybe you should try doing a slightly earlier bedtime to see if that helps. Mine now go down between 6-6:30 pm and generally stay down untilanywhere between 5:30-7:30 am! It's heavenly!!
Also, do you use white noise with your LOs? My kiddos NEED their white noise to fall asleep and it helps to drown out the noise of crying baby/ies when the others are asleep. We keep ours on the ocean sound and turn it up as high as it'll go!
Sorry this turned into a novel! Hope there's SOMETHING helpful in here! GL...

Ruby_Tuesday

Thanks curly.  I'm going to consider what you wrote and try to watch their sleep cues closely. 

We do use white noise but it's in the form of a fan in each room and it's a constant hum.  I was thinking about switching to a white noise machine with ocean sounds because the sound changes and may mask other sounds better (and I can turn it up).

gumiberg

omg Ruby, that is one of the best siggy pictures that I have ever seen on TB! love it.