It's been such a long time, I've missed so many of you here! I had my twins November of last year so they're coming up on 8 months old. I feel like as a provider I used to all the answers. Caring for multiple infants wasn't hard for me at all. Now that I have my boys though I'm really struggling to come up with sleep solutions! I've totally lost my touch and confidence!!!
I'm toying around with re-opening. Probably not full capacity licensed care for some time yet but maybe registered or even just for a single family, at least until the boys are a bit older. I can't however pull the trigger on doing so until I get a grip on some semblance of a sleep schedule. I'm dying of sleep deprivation here....3 hours give or take a night isn't enough to get me through the day caring for them, much less someone else's kids!
I can't for the life of me get them to nap lately, as in they just won't settle down for anything and very rarely actually fall asleep. Bedtime isn't much better in the sense that they'll go down easier, but wake many times a night.
Our day definitely has rhythm as far as when they wake, eat, (try to) nap and go to bed at night. Evan slept really well naps and nighttime (often going 8-9 hours at a stretch) from about 3 months through 5 months and then I lost that. Kavik has never slept really well, he naturally had a very "cat nappy" sleep rhythm from the get go. Now things have escalated with him to a point where he wakes at night in full blown screaming bloody murder fits. It can take several minutes to settle him back down and it's a terrifying way to be woken up for everyone in the room! They nap in separate cribs in separate rooms, but share a crib in our room at night (with Snuza monitors and on separate ends of the mattress). No blankets, bottles or rocking, just nuks and down they go. We do have a nighttime routine of diapers, massage, pj's and bottles.
Can I get a little help here from those who typically have all the answers??! If they were in YOUR daycare, what would you do to get a grip on at least the naps? I'll tell you, being pretty gung ho about AP, CIO isn't really in my nature and I'm not sure how I'd do it with the both of them at the same time anyway. I'd take about any and every suggestion up to that but I'm not sure I have it in me to go that far.
Thanks in advance for anyone who has the magical elusive (to me) answers
Other than that I hope everyone has been well!
I'm toying around with re-opening. Probably not full capacity licensed care for some time yet but maybe registered or even just for a single family, at least until the boys are a bit older. I can't however pull the trigger on doing so until I get a grip on some semblance of a sleep schedule. I'm dying of sleep deprivation here....3 hours give or take a night isn't enough to get me through the day caring for them, much less someone else's kids!
I can't for the life of me get them to nap lately, as in they just won't settle down for anything and very rarely actually fall asleep. Bedtime isn't much better in the sense that they'll go down easier, but wake many times a night.
Our day definitely has rhythm as far as when they wake, eat, (try to) nap and go to bed at night. Evan slept really well naps and nighttime (often going 8-9 hours at a stretch) from about 3 months through 5 months and then I lost that. Kavik has never slept really well, he naturally had a very "cat nappy" sleep rhythm from the get go. Now things have escalated with him to a point where he wakes at night in full blown screaming bloody murder fits. It can take several minutes to settle him back down and it's a terrifying way to be woken up for everyone in the room! They nap in separate cribs in separate rooms, but share a crib in our room at night (with Snuza monitors and on separate ends of the mattress). No blankets, bottles or rocking, just nuks and down they go. We do have a nighttime routine of diapers, massage, pj's and bottles.
Can I get a little help here from those who typically have all the answers??! If they were in YOUR daycare, what would you do to get a grip on at least the naps? I'll tell you, being pretty gung ho about AP, CIO isn't really in my nature and I'm not sure how I'd do it with the both of them at the same time anyway. I'd take about any and every suggestion up to that but I'm not sure I have it in me to go that far.
Thanks in advance for anyone who has the magical elusive (to me) answers
Other than that I hope everyone has been well!
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