OMG you guys!
The babies napped in their room today, not on me!!!! This is day two of attempting this and holy $#*% its working!
The blackout shades are drawn, and I have a fan on for white noise. I swaddle and feed them until asleep (rock or bounce if necessary), then put Delia in the Amby, Elsie in a bouncer in the crib. They both actually stayed asleep through transfer! This morning Elsie slept for 45 min, Delia for 3 hours (!) until I woke her up to feed. I actually got to hang out with Emma some, and folded four baskets of laundry. And made and ate lunch without someone crying!
Elsie went down for a second nap in the Amby in the afternoon and also slept for 3 hours, which allowed me to cook and feed Emma and me dinner (while Delia snoozed in the sling) and then do bath/books/bed stuff since Lonnie worked late. If this continues, my life will be revolutionized. Emma almost never napped for longer than 45 min, until way past 12 months old, so this is fab. It is exhausting to try to keep any sort of schedule and mesh the babies' and Emma's in any sort of manageable fashion, but if this becomes a reliable way to get them down we can then work on timing later...
Posted by Lindsay on August 29, 2008 at 10:15 PM PDT #
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