LET'S GET THESE BABIES TO SLEEP THROUGH THE NIGHT, PLEASE?

When we brought Alec & Logan home - they slept in our room for the first 4 months or so. Our bedroom in Texas was huge – we had room for 2 cribs, a dressing table, our queen size bed, a small sofa, a recliner and a small refrigerator. It was the perfect set-up. We could have all the bottles we needed for during the night and plenty of room to spread out to feed, play and rock the babies to sleep. This worked for a while, until I couldn’t take it anymore! One morning I woke up and thought that I was going to go crazy. If I didn’t have a whole nights sleep; if I didn’t have a room without babies, I would not survive. So, I told Steve the boys had to be moved to their own room. Yay, we would have our room back! We’d all sleep through the night now! HA!!

Moving day came and first we had to figure the best way for 2 cribs to fit in the guestroom. The obvious place was the outside wall – under the windows. I said, “No – they cannot sleep under the windows. It will be too cold and they will catch a cold.” After trying other arrangements, we ended up with one in the corner (part of it was still by the window) and the other next to the bed. I was very excited, and a bit nervous, about them sleeping somewhere other than our bedroom. I remember very vividly that first night they slept in the other room. We fed them, got them down and went to sleep. Around 1 PM, I woke up in a panic; I hadn’t slept for that many hours in a very long time and why hadn’t the boys woken up yet? I, literally, ran down the hall into the other room, only to find two sweet babies fast asleep. They woke up shortly after that, but wow – 3 hours of sleep at one time! Maybe this was going to work – they would sleep through the night after all.

NOT! After that night, we started a new routine. We did something that other parents told us not to. We started taking one baby into bed with us, so we could get some sleep. Here is the scenario: one baby would wake up and I would go in to get him and feed him. The other one would wake up, Steve would go get him. We’d feed them and get them back to sleep. But when we laid them down; one would wake up, start crying and wake the other one up. ARGHHHH! The only way they would go back to sleep was if one or the other of us lay down with them on the bed.

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