Knowing how I function, I knew that my babies HAD to be on a schedule. It started right when they came into this world. I feed them at the same time, every 2 hours which quickly became miserable. One is made to sleep longer than an hour at a time, seeing it took an hour to feed both of them. They say that a baby shouldn't be on a schedule at this young age, that person clearly didn't have two! The benefits of being determined to get them to sleep through the night has paid in my favor. After just one month my little ones were sleeping 8 hours through the night, now hitting up to 9 if I'm lucky. They know when night time is. I made sure that in the first month of their life to not let them sleep more than 3 hours at a time during the day and stop feeding at 9-10pm. If they woke up during the night I would wait 5 minutes to let them try to soothe themselves to sleep. If they were still screaming their little heads off I would put their favorite binkie in their mouth, rock them and then tip toe out, as if they would wake to my foot steps.
Now we put them down around 9pm, with a bath every other night, lathered in their lavender lotion, a last fill of a bottle, sweet words from mom and dad, and then put down to either let them coo or fall right into dreamland. We can be the loudest in the house with their door wide open and they will sleep straight through all the noise! I am SO blessed. An amazing person gave me the greatest advice, "Make as much noise as you can with those babies, they will learn to sleep through anything!" He was EXACTLY right!! I STILL can't believe I am so blessed to be a mother of two.
Sleeping babies = One Happy Mama.
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