Synchronization of Us

After such a lovely day yesterday we had such a horrendous night with the girls, it was one of the worst nights I have had since having Eilidh – at least the first few nights after she was born I was expecting it.

7.00pm – Wonderful start to the night, both girls sound asleep and sleeping in there own beds. I go for a bath.

8.00pm – Eilidh wakes up thus waking Rebecca up, I get out bath to deal with Eilidh and DH takes Rebecca. Eilidh is really upset and finally settles after taking some teething tablets and a feed and goes back down. Becca goes back down ok

8.30pm – Becca wakes up but goes back down again

9.00pm – Eilidh wakes again, feeds and goes back down. Give her some calpol.

10.00pm – Rebecca wakes and is so fussy and restless and will not settle without us there.

11.00pm – Rebecca finally goes back to sleep but is so restless and moving constantly. Me and DH try to go to sleep.

12.00pm – Becca wakes for a feed

1.00am – DH takes a turn with Rebecca as I had barely slept as she wouldn’t stay still. He moans about It so much (in his sleep) that im unable to get back to sleep.

2.00am – Becca wakes again, she is burning up and seems wide awake, I take her through the living room and give her calpol, we curl up on the couch.

2.30am – Rebecca is just starting to go back to sleep when Eilidh wakes up again. I wait to see if she will settle but after about 5 minutes starts crying so go and get her and give a feed while Rebecca plays. She goes back down with some fussing.

3.00am – Yet again Becca is about to drop off when Eilidh starts crying. Take Becca to DH, even though she is crying for me tell him he just has to deal with it as I need to deal with Eilidh.

3-5.00am – Eilidh is not happy, she has more calpol and teething tables (which help for 10 minutes or so. We change her nappy, feed, walk the floor, sing, rock………, everything but she is miserable and will not go back to sleep. Eventually around 5 we both fall asleep on the couch.

5.15am – She wakes up again and feeds, I put her down and she settles for a few moments before waking and fussing. I sit through the living room but after about 10 minutes she has stopped fussing (she never cried though, just babbled unhappily). I FINALLY GO TO SLEEP.

7.00am – DH comes through with Rebecca, im so tired but thankfully he sends me back to bed and deals with the kids.

Im up at 9 with a screaming hungry Eilidh, thankfully I managed to grab almost 2 hours during naptime. Both girls have such runny noses today and Becca is running a fever. Im pretty sure both girls are teething – Becca got like this when she was getting her eye teeth and it looks like Eilidhs top teeth are about to break through. Of course after taken a 3 hour nap during the day Eilidh refused to take an afternoon nap and went to be a 6pm.

Its now 7.40pm and both girls are sound and im about to head for a bath, I just hope tonight is better. Cannot cope with a night like that again.