Overnights alone starting Saturday....

masked_rose86

My DH is a medical resident so he will be doing a 30 hour shift every 6th day, need to sleep at least 6 hours following so I will basically be on my own for 2 days and an overnight when that happens. 

Scared to death since they are only 9 1/2 weeks and DH has been helping me every night tandem feed them.  I usually feed them around 9 (down by 9:45), 1:45 (might take till 3). 4:30/5, and if I am lucky they will go down for another 1-2 hours. 

I tandem feed during the day too with the help of setting one down on the couch next to me then putting her on the nursing pillow after I get the other situated on one side.  Unsure if I can accomplish this transition at night without jostling them too much and making them hard to put back to bed.

 Ugh, and this isn't the worst of it....DH will have 2 six day stretches of only overnights starting in May (around 12 days total), 2 four day long conferences out of town in the next two months, and then in June he is on call (like May) every 4th day.

Ugh....I don't know how I am going to survive the next 3 months.  I love my girls but they are super fussy/cry often in the afternoon and evenings especially....though it also happens some mornings too.  I'm in the process of trying to eliminate milk/cheese/yogurt to see if it helps (day 3 so far and not sure).  If only the girls had more awake/happy times this would be easier!  I am praying they get happier soon but the pediatrician warned me it might be several weeks at least till it gets better around 3-4 months old.

 Oy..... 

 

Vrbka

I'm no help as I haven't had my babes yet but do u have the rock N plays? I hav heard many swear by these when feeding together! I bought two so I will see when time comes! Good luck hope things get better soon for you!

jalaiaa

DH is a firefighter and works 24 hours every third day. He went back to work when the boys were 2 weeks old. My mom initially stayed with me to help out. I think I tried to do it on my own the first night but was a mess come morning. Anyhow, somewhere around 8 weeks or so we stopped waking the other one when the first needed to nurse and I found that they both would go a lot longer than I thought. Pretty soon they were both just getting up once around 3 or 4 am and it made things a lot easier and mom stopped staying over with me. So you might want to try not waking the other one and see how it goes. Good luck. There is a light at the end of the tunnel.