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Sleep, Glorious Sleep!

Yes, my girls are wonderful!  They are sleeping through the night!!!  I've almost have them sleeping without their dreamfeed.  They go down at night between 6:30-7 and I feed them 2-3 ounces at 10 and they sleep until 6-6:30.  I'm hoping this week to totally drop their dreamfeed but not too quickly as they are just getting over a cold.  All said, it's so nice to have sleeping babies at night!

FACTS:  The Twins are 13.5 pounds born at 33.5 gestation, now 4.5 months old.  They have been sleeping through for about 5 weeks.  We still use the Miracles Blankets and white noise machine!

Oh, Ms. Small!

Meredith F. Small is an anthropologist at Cornell University and is also the author of "Our Babies, Ourselves; How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent" just came out with a new article, Should Babies be put on a Schedule.  Check it out. 

The clearly study shows the benefit of a schedule is a well rested happy mother but yet she rebels to say that baby "neurologically unfinished" and need to be on top of Mom.  If the babies are "neurologically unfinished" as she says they need direction!  Oh, Ms. Small, direction of a schedule meets Mom and babies needs!

Helpful Help

What kind of help do you need?  This is often a question I am asked.  It will depend on your comfort level and whether or not your husband or other family is available.  With a singleton you can learn to manage on your own but help is nice to lighten your load.  With twins, you can manage on your own but your energy level will depend on if you are breastfeeding and if you have other children.  It would be best to know you have a night or two break.  With triplets help is quite neccessary.  The average feeding can last as long as an hour and a half.  This only leaves you with an hour and half of "down" time which isn't much. The lack of sleep with any baby is exausting but with two and more babies it's very difficult.  Do all you can to prepare yourself for the up coming changes.

Help is: Meals, Cleaning, Sibling Care, Errand Runs, Laundry, Helping with a feeding.

Make things simple: Have in the home bottled water, paper plates and cups, paper towels, prepared fresh veggies and fruit, high fiber foods, frozen meals.

Baby Cries at 2 A.M.? No Need to Get Up

By EILENE ZIMMERMAN

Published: July 13, 2008

SLOGGING through endless nights with a newborn baby has long been a parenting rite of passage. But for some dual-income parents, the arrival of the night nanny is making those 2 a.m. interruptions a thing of the past.

Demand for overnight nannies — also known as newborn specialists — has been growing, especially in the last five years and largely in major metropolitan areas, said Wendy Sachs, the co-president of the International Nanny Association and the founder of the Philadelphia Nanny Network. “People have moved away from the places they grew up, and they don’t have family down the street to help them out,” she said.

The trend reflects changing attitudes about child care. Parents no longer see outside child care “as bad for kids or neglectful on their part — child care is seen as a necessity, not a luxury,” said Christine Carter, a sociologist who directs the Greater Good Science Center, an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley. “If it is good during the day, why wouldn’t it also be helpful at night?”.....http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/jobs/13starts.html?_r=2&oref=slogin