Sleep training - Day 3
posted on: 09:37 PM September 09, 2007
Hard to judge if this was a good day or a bad day. It started with A-star waking up every hour from 4 to 6. At 7, the day officially begins, so we were already behind, fatigue wise. My wife rescued me by watching the kids between 7 to 9. So, typical day for new parents right?
At the grocery store, both boys refused to go to sleep. I'm scared that they are developing a sleep immunity to travel. At home, that sick-ish feeling my wife has, along with what i thought was a blocked duct, is probably Mastitis. She needs to sleep and i start to break into a mild, desperate sweat.
Both sets of grandparents call, expressing a desire to come down to see the babies. It's like they telepathically sense danger. My parents come and take the ever alert A-star for a walk and depart (My wife had put B-boy to sleep). My wife's mom stays to make us dinner.
Dinner occurs at a time most people would actually have dinner. We usually have dinner after the Boys have gone to sleep for the evening. My wife and her Mom scarf down food and Grandma offers to hold A-star while I eat. I usually hold A-star and eat a breakfast bar at this time, so I'm easily tempted. A-star awakes. After 45 futile minutes. it's bath time anyway. Still fairly typical.
After story-time, A-star gets drowsy way before B-boy, so I put him in the crib. Finally, the punchline: he's asleep in 5 minutes. Okay, he wakes up 5 minutes later, but he puts himself to sleep in 5 minutes. And, all right, we put in B-boy later and he cries for 40 minutes before sleeping (we think he kept crying because he saw us checking on A-star), waking up his brother, who cried for 20 minutes before putting himself back to sleep. And, okay, so A-star woke up after 10 minutes, before falling asleep again after 2 minutes.
5 minutes! Now we just have to get our whole day in order.