Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Sweet, sweet sleep
The boys both slept for 8 hours straight last night! (At 9.5 weeks old, it's about time!) Translation: I got to sleep for 8 hours straight last night! Well ok, I briefly woke up once early in the morning, baffled by the silence, just to check and make sure the boys were still there... Anyway, I can't even begin to explain how happy I am! Previously they only slept 3 to 5 hours at a time, and rarely simultaneously. As an added bonus, they were both in their crib the whole time (they have been known to be averse to sleeping in their crib). And they fell asleep at 1:30 am- a full hour earlier than usual! And we didn't even have to feed them formula to get them to sleep, which is what the nurse had suggested. What a huge answer to prayer. Let's hope the boys keep this up!
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Ok, just for the record, this never happened again until they were about 2 years old. Looking back through these old posts, we're realizing that they don't exactly accurately depict our life at the time. I was trying to be positive and didn't want to worsen the situation with negative confessions, and therefore excluded some of the less pleasant details of life with insomniac, colicky, reflux-ridden infant twins! In reality, they only slept 2-3 hours at a time (thinking back, even 5 hours high, although maybe they did sometimes) until they were about 6 months old, and they didn't start sleeping through the night on a regular basis until they were about 2.
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