Sleeping

Jason and I have been working on getting Malia and Michael to sleep well at night and during naptimes. We seem to have done well with the nighttime sleeping (most important one). We get 4 or 5 hour stretches between feedings at night. Once they are 9 pounds each I will cut back on the amount of time they have at the nighttime feedings in order to completely eliminate the need for nighttime feedings at all. They will help out too, with sleeping for longer stretches. Basically they will get all they need during the day, and then at night just relax and grow.

For naptimes, we are now putting them in their room for naps. We just started this today. I expect there will be some protesting these first couple of days, but that's just how it goes. We have to get the kids to realize what the routine is in order for them to go with the flow. They are napping right now in their room.

I'm reading a book about getting your baby to sleep 12 hours by 12 weeks old. I have to wait until they are bigger before I can start implementing the tips, but I'm excited at the thought of babies sleeping twelve hours at night. The book says they don't need to sleep the entire time, if they wake up early they will lay quietly there either playing with a toy or entertaining themselves another way.

When they are older, we also are going to try and see if they can sleep without swaddles. There is a lot to come in the next month and hopeful it will go smoothly.

Cloth diapers have been going well. I love love love the bum genius pocket diapers for nighttime. I double stuff them so they will soak up all the nighttime business. Then during the day we use the flip system which has a waterproof outer cover and then I just swap out the insert unless it is a poopy diaper. Poopy diapers will have the outer cover put in the laundry. I think my stash of covers is good, and Jenna and Gigi have made some new inserts I'm excited to try. When the kids sleep longer stretches, I think I can do diaper laundry every other day. Right now I do it once a day (one load) in order to get my nighttime diapers cleaned for the next night.

So that's the update. This is an older picture, because I haven't hooked up the camera to the computer. I took a really cute video that I will post later this week of the kids in their bumbo seats.