Faith seems to be doing better, but we had a rough night last night, because this ordeal has caused her to become very needy and clingy.  She went to sleep fine at the beginning of the night, but then woke up around 11PM.  She would go right back to sleep in my arms, so I knew she wasn’t hurting, but when I’d go to lay her down again, she would cry and sit up in her crib.  As soon as she was back in my arms again, once again, she’d fall fast asleep. This went on until around 1AM and FINALLY, when I laid her down, she stayed asleep.  But then she woke up again around 5:45, and I just rocked her and we slept together in the recliner until about 7:30.  Of course, my day was starting because Allie was already up at this point, so no more naps for me, but laid Faith back down again, and she slept until around 9AM.

I do have a question for you guys.  She now has a fever blister on her mouth and her gums on the top around her front teeth look inflamed, and those aren’t the ones coming in, she’s had them.  Is this related to teething?  I may just run her in to see the ped tomorrow.  I’ve never experienced anything like this.

Okay, I admit it.  My 15 month old babies are not sleeping through the night.  Not even close depending on how you define it.  I think their naps may be affecting their night wakings.  I’ve tried to get them to take only 1 nap a day but they get so tired it makes the day miserable.  I’ve tried adjusting their bedtime but they just wake up earlier in the morning, which throws off the naps, which leads to bad nights. 

They have always gone to sleep for naps & bedtime “drowsy but awake”.  We follow a soothing bedtime routine.  They go to bed around 7:30 pm.  White noise is playing in their room.  According to all the experts they should be sleeping well. 

So how are your babies sleeping?  When & how long do they nap?  What time do they go to bed & wake up?  Please give me any advice you can think of b/c I’m tired, they’re tired, & we’re all grouchy. 

***In my defense, since they were very young we’ve been battling severe reflux & ear infections that contributed to their sleep problems.  That’s finally all under control & we’re trying to get them into healthy sleep patterns.

Both babies are waking up during the night wanting me to hold them, and this is happening while I am alone and Steven is at work.  Last night, thank goodness Faith slept all night long, but Emma woke twice, and she is becoming quite the “Mama’s Girl”, wanting to be held and rocked.  Both times I rocked her for 5 minutes and she went right back to sleep.  I’m having trouble getting her in the bed at the beginning too, because she can now roll over and pull herself up, so she is refusing to go down.

I kind of knew this would happen once she started becoming more mobile.  Although, I’m happy and excited that she has finally progressed into rolling over and pulling up, I have to admit I miss my good little baby that would lay down and self soothe herself to sleep.  Is that terrible of me?

Anyway, I know, I know, you are asking yourself, “Why in the world is she still up past midnight?”  Well…I’ll tell you why…because I’m enjoying a little “me” time.  Tired or not, I’m gonna get my “me” time, even if it means I lose a little sleep.  So I guess I’ll stop whining now.  Thanks for listening anyway!

Jacob & Cole slept from 7:15 pm until 6:20 am without waking at all!!!! We all needed it, too. I hope this is the start of something good, but I have a feeling they were just exhausted from 2 months of poor sleep. Either way, I’ll take it!

Alright - finally, i think they are getting it - the 1st and only wake up was around 1:45. They both got up, so it double duty trying to get them back down because they were fueling each other. Finally after 15-20 minutes of patting them, i decided to just leave and let them figure it out. Sarah fell back to sleep after about 5 minutes.  Samantha though was SCREAMING/SHRILLING. i waited another 5 minutes and went in - all 3 of her binky’s were in the middle of the floor - apparently in her hysteria, she threw them all out of her crib. i put them all back in her crib, put one back in her mouth and she immediately went back to sleep.  That was it! no other wake- ups until i went in at 6:15 to get them up for daycare. Let me tell you though - it was SOOO tempting to pick them up and seperate them since they were both crying, but i stuck to my guns because i knew it would just regress us.  The funny thing with Sarah was she had stopped crying at one point, saw Greg walk past the bedroom and started screaming again - as if to see if he would come and get her. He didn’t and after just a few minutes, she gave up. LOL!   Well, I’m at work, so i’ll chat up with you girls later! have a great day!!!

Well, i think it was semi successful. they both woke at 9:30, i switched out the night lights and they went back to sleep.  They Breezed right through the typical 10:30-11:00 wake up and didn’t get up until about 2:30(sarah). After giving her a binky, she went pretty much back to sleep - some half hearted cries, but i think she realized it was taking more effort to cry then to just go to sleep. Well, once again, her fussing woke Samantha up, so from 2:45 until 3:30, i was back and forth patting her, sitting in the middle of her room. She had peed out her diaper, so i while i changed her, Greg changed the sheets. I promptly put her back to bed - no talking to her, nothing. Finally, she realized she wasn’t getting picked back up or rocked.  :(   Sarah woke again around 5:00 and was more of terror this time. i think she was ready to be up for the day. She did poop, so i changed her and put her back in the crib. she finally fell back to sleep. Samantha woke, but got back to sleep within 10 minutes.  They both then slept until the lovely hour of 8:00.  YEAH!  maybe tonight, they will just decide to sleep all the way through!! i’ll keep you posted!

So, the 2nd night after tubes wasn’t any better than the 1st - we now can pretty much determine it’s bad habit and not their ears that is waking them through the night - Sarah is pretty consistent at waking btwn 10:30 and 11:00 each night for milk. i did something last night i swore i wouldn’t do - i gave her the sippy cup in her crib - she drank 1/2 of it, found her binky and back to dreamland she went. Unfortunately, she woke samantha in all of her fussing. I tried the same with Samantha, but she wanted nothing to do with the sippy. i wasn’t surprised - she typically just wants held. So, off to trying the Ferber method. boy, she was not happy… after an hour of her screaming, i ended up in their room, next to her crib, rubbing her leg. it took her another 45 minutes of me sitting there before she finally closed her eyes. So, 1 hour and 45 minutes of being determined that i wasn’t going to take her out of the crib. Of course, a few times in all of this, Sarah fussed, but would just find her milk, drink a few sips and roll over and go back to sleep - Once both were asleep, i replaced the sippy cups of milk with water and we had a dream filled balance of the night. i’m hoping tonight goes better. NOw that i know it’s not the ears, we are bound and determined to stop making excuses for their restless nights and just train them on getting themselves back to sleep - let me tell you, they have NO problem going down for naps or going down initially at bedtime - it’s just the middle of the night waking.

I woud love to hear if any of you have some advice, or if you think we are approaching this in the correct manner?