as everyone with small children knows - sleep is constantly evolving. we started out doing pretty well, but things have been challenging. our kids have always been early risers - between 6 and 6:30am. we work towards staying in rooms until 7am.
the new room situations seem to be working out well - actually better than i had hoped. mason does not seem to be bothered my maddux' crying most of the time. and being seperated from the boys has actually allowed madelyn to get more sleep. but for some reason they must be having a secret meeting each evening to decide who gets to wake up in the middle of the night and come into our room. madelyn doesn't draw that straw often, but she gets her turns. mainly it is mason and he goes right back to sleep (usually in or next to our bed). but maddux likes to go with a 5am wake up call. he was at 4:30am for about a week, but 5:15am seems to be his favorite time.
out of despiration i decided to just let him cry until 7am. knowing that it would wake up mason. mason was getting a little too comfortable with sleeping in our bed after waking up before 7am so we have started only letting him sleep on the floor next to our bed - which he does not mind at all. in fact, i had to wake him up at 8:30am on sunday so that we could go to church! he has since come into our room and laid down without making a noise. but maddux did not take as well to crying. i wake up when he does and turn off the monitor so it isn't so loud and then lay in bed listening to him cry. i do not enjoy it, but he is fine and will be better when he sleeps longer. the first day i think he cried off and on for an hour before going back to sleep. all three kids slept until 7:30am that day. the second day he woke up at 5:30am, cried softly twice and went back to sleep. i woke up at 7:45am and was the first one in the house awake! (it was a saturday.)
we are still working on it and it is a little bit of a process with figuring out getting daytime napping and early morning rising balance out but we are much, much closer than we were a week ago. and we are all a bit more rested and cheerful. love.
2 comments:
Ahhh! I remember those days. Derek used to come in and sleep in our bed and then was moved to the floor. He slept on the floor next to the bed a lot! Matt did too but not as much. Glad you are getting more sleep, but with kids, nothing stays the same for long! Love, Nana
Ah, sleep. Like you said, always changing. so happy to hear the new room set up is working out so well.
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