Everyone talks about a schedule. Make sure you get your babies on a schedule. Stay on a schedule. These are the things I heard once the babies were born. And let me tell you, it's one thing I cannot accomplish. This is very annoying to me as I am a perfectionist and have always accomplished every goal I set. It's like I said before, this is the hardest thing I've ever done. My oldest child was a breeze. I don't remember having the issues with her that I have with the twins. From the day we came home from the hospital, I have tried to get them on a schedule. It is so hard. And I really can't stand people who make it sound so easy.
It's kind of a double edge sword. I need to get out of the house to remain sane, but I need to stay home to keep the babies on their schedule. When I have to take them to a doctor's appointment or Miranda to something, the whole schedule thing gets thrown out the window. And trying to get them back on "the" schedule is difficult.
I don't know about you, but my twins wake up at different times every day. It ranges from 4am to 6:30am. My loving husband is sweet enough to get up with them in the morning. He feeds them and changes them. Then he let's them play. I feed them breakfast, depending on when they ate their bottles, around 8:30-9:00. After breakfast, I try and lay them down for a nap. Most of the time, they play in their crib before they fall asleep. At the current time, Oli is doing much better at falling asleep at nap time. Isi, not so much. She is needing to be rocked to sleep. I'd rather rock them than listen to the scream. I know this is not the thing to do, but what do you do?? So they wake up from this nap to eat another bottle. They play for several hours and have lunch. After lunch, they play more. Around 3:00 we have another bottle and then if we're lucky, another nap. They wake up about an hour and a half later. Play...play..play and it's dinner time! We have dinner and get cleaned up. Then it's play time again. It's about 6pm now. Steve and I finally have time to fix our dinner and hopefully eat before the girls get grumpy and start crying. After our dinner, it's bath time. We bathe them and give them their last bottle for the night. Well except Isi. She'll be up again in a few hours for another bottle. Finally the day is over and we put them down for the night. This is in a perfect world!! I wish it were this easy.
I'm hoping by their 1st birthday they will have an easier time going to bed AND sleeping through the night! Wish me luck!
