I shouldn't say that, I still have relatively good sleepers. They love a good three hour nap even still. And I still get at least three naps out of them in a day.
At six adjusted weeks (12 real) my twin girls "slept through the night". We started our bedtime routine at this time ... play on the mat with M&D, bathtime, bottle and straight to bed awake. It worked very well even from the first night. At that time they would go to bed around 9pm and wake up at 5am for a very quick bottle and back to sleep until 9am. Twelve hours people.
Where in the hell did that go? We are four months adjusted now, bedtime has been moved up to anywhere between 7 and 8 but they've discovered how to roll over to their backs and it has completely disrupted their entire nights and naps. We're up three or four times a night. They awake at five am but its for the day now, if I can get them to go back to sleep its for never more than 45 minutes until after they eat again at around nine-ten. We do practice "graduated extinction" waiting five minutes, then ten minutes and so on. However they very rarely return to sleep after 5 am.
Is this normal?? Am I going to have 5am raisers? I can't handle it. Mommy just can't handle it. Daddy can't handle it when Mommy can't handle it.
The rolling over has also disrupted naptime. I put them in, they roll over and giggle at me. At times she's soooo tired she's rubbing her face into the blanket and crying but she STILL rolls over.
And being the amazing mother that I am, I've taught them "crib to sleep". They refuse to be rocked in a chair or in a swing and they won't even sleep in the car if THEY don't feel like it. I thought it was a good thing, they were always put to bed to sleep, I mean HELLO! I have TWO, I can't rock them to sleep, I would get nowhere. I would die. But then, times like now, I wish I could rock the little tired baby to sleep.
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