Nights

Oh my, didn't realise I had forgotten to update - so nights are soooo much better! I kept a 24 hour schedule for about 3 or 4 days in a row and our sleep consultant picked up on a few things. The main thing being that I was keep them up for 4 hours in the arvo sometimes as I thought their bedtime needed to stay the same every single day. But I'm actually supposed to keep them up for 3 hours max!

So we implemented those changes and yeah, things are so much better. We've had a couple of nights where one of the girls would sleep from 7-7 straight. But no nights yet where they've both done it at the same time grrrrr.

Anyway, apparently the next step is to leave them to cry for 5 mins, go in and calm them down, then leave for 7 mins, etc. And we are struggling! Just can't do it. Ava has calmed herself down during the 5 minute wait ONCE, but every other time their crying has escalated and both of them have woken up and it has taken us ages to get them to go back to sleep. So we've started dummy plugging again. Gah. Must get stronger. I really don't want to do this though. It would be fine if they only did it once a night each, but some nights it happens about 4 times each....

Well, that is the latest. Things have improved vastly but still a way to go.