Sleep Training Update

Haillee

Night Sleep Chart

Date	Bedtime or Waking	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Crying Time	Total Time
9/15	8:37pm	8:42	8:54	8:57 sleep			20 min
	9:33pm	9:40					7 min	27 min
9/16	8:00pm	8:10 sleep					10 min
	8:00 pm	8:45-9:00 crying					15 min	25 min
9/17	8:08	8:09 sleep					9 min	9 min
9/18	8:23	8:26					3 min	3 min

Sebastian

Night Sleep Chart

		Check in	Check in	Check in	Check in	Check in
Date	Bedtime or Waking	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Crying Time	Total Time
9/15	8:37pm
	9:32pm	9:40					8 min
	2:25am-2:30	Feeding
	4:55am	5:00	5:10	5:28-5:39			44 min	52 min
9/16	8:00 pm	8:10 sleeping					10 min	10 min
9/17	8:08 pm	Sleep
	5:50 am	5:55 am	Diaper change				5 min	5 min
9/18	8:23 pm
	5:45am	5:50 am	Diaper Change				5 min	5 min

I only included the results from the night time sleep training. I didn't include the daytime naps. Those are supposed to take a while perhaps two weeks. I believe that the days are the most difficult. My children respond to naps by pooing. I've always had to do a diaper change in the middle of the morning nap. Oh well.

Hey at least I feel more rested. I think the sleep training is also for Jerry and I. We now have all this time on our hands. As you can see by the charts the nights are getting better and better. Plus, we don't get them up until 7:30 am. So we have time in the morning to sleep a bit and wake Alisiya for school.

As I type the nap training seems a bit out of control. Haillee and Sebastian are in the room crying, better yet screaming (Haillee), their hearts out. I feel really bad for them, then I remember that I now can eat my lunch in peace or better yet, I just get to eat in a decent time and then everything seems worth all this fuss right now.

And now I'm off …..to where…..lunch of course.

Sleep Training

So now we are knee deep in sleep training. The twins had a great schedule until about 3-4 weeks ago. We're still not sure what happened.

What convinced us to sleep train? I never thought that I, yes I would allow my child to cry themselves to sleep. It's usually referred to as Cry It Out (CIO). I just couldn't imagine letting my children cry in the dark and be in tears if they only needed to be held or their pacifier put back in. The final straw was Sunday. We had just finished watching SNL and just as we said "Goodnight" the silence was broken. Not by one baby, but by two. Jerry had to go to work on Sunday, which he usually doesn't have to do, so I being the temporary Stay at Home Mom (SAHM) would put the babies back to sleep. They only wanted to cuddle and be held. Well I held them until 2:30 AM and then I put them in their cribs while I sat in the chair in their room. Still not content Haillee cried and cried. I tried to keep her quiet so I didn't wake everyone else in the house (at least I said that by 3:00 AM I just wanted to be rescued). They both were still up and they did so until 4:30AM. While thinking (not so clearly) the next morning I got to thinking there has to be a better way. Right?

Out came my Sleep Easy Solutions book and I announced that we were going to visit another meeting the 6PM meeting was far too late, b/c tonight we were going to begin SLEEP TRAINING. Well that night Jerry and I mapped out a definite night time routine and did the dry run. They woke up at 4:30 am the next morning. Did I mention I hadn't finished reading the book and once we put the twins down on Sunday I realized that we did it wrong. The routine was right but everything else was way wrong.

Monday night is another night. Another chance to get it right let the saga begin.


....Did I mention that I'm nervous now that I realize that I'm supposed to let my children CIO. This book isn't so cold turkey cruel. We are allowed to visit the kids, only one parent per visit for moral support. (HA!) No more than 30 seconds and no touching, no re-inserting pacifiers, no contact at all. Strictly verbal communication.

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Pool Party

We went over friends of Jerry's house and the kids had a great time in the pool. We enjoyed ourselves as well. Of course Alisiya was the last one out. Thanks Mark & Patty.
 

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