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The babies go to sleep around 6:30 or 7pm.

Since she was 3 or 4 months old, except under very rare circumstance, Ellie hasn’t woken up at all, unless we wake her up until morning. We wake her up at 5am to eat so that she doesn’t get cheated out of her morning meal by her piggy brother, Sam. (if she gets up later than 5am, he cheats her out of her leisurely breakfast, we’ve found)

Abby generally wakes up around 11 or 12 to eat. Sometimes she also wakes up in the 4am range, but often sleeps through until 6am after that. She’s pretty predictable.

Sam… Well, he likes to eat, you see. He will eat from a bottle, particularly if I’m not around, but he much prefers to nurse. And so he makes up for the fact that I’m not around all day, by being up half the night most nights. I’m somewhat loathe to try to train him out of this, because I know at some point he’ll train out of it himself anyway, and I know he really is hungry when he wakes up, and I know at some point I really will miss this together time with him, even if it IS two in the morning. Sigh.

The last few nights I’ve been so exhausted I’ve been having a hard time staying awake past 9 or so. But I had things to do last night, so I was still up at 11 when both Abby and Sam woke up screaming. This did not bode well for the night (Sam usually doesn’t wake up THAT early, and when he does, it usually means a LONG night for me). So, Seth fed Abby while I fed Sam and then we both collapsed into bed in hopes of grabbing at least a couple hours of sleep before the screaming began. Funny thing, though… either we were so tired we slept through it (unlikely), or a miracle happened.

Next thing we knew, the alarm went off at 5am, Seth brought me Ellie for her breakfast and then next thing I knew, it was 6am and time for Abby and Sam to eat. A new day had begun. Is it possible that I got a whole six hours of uninterrupted sleep? Could it be? And if so, how is it that I’m still so tired today?

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The babies go to sleep around 6:30 or 7pm.

Since she was 3 or 4 months old, except under very rare circumstance, Ellie hasn't woken up at all, unless we wake her up until morning. We wake her up at 5am to eat so that she doesn't get cheated out of her morning meal by her piggy brother, Sam. (if she gets up later than 5am, he cheats her out of her leisurely breakfast, we've found)

Abby generally wakes up around 11 or 12 to eat. Sometimes she also wakes up in the 4am range, but often sleeps through until 6am after that. She's pretty predictable.

Sam… Well, he likes to eat, you see. He will eat from a bottle, particularly if I'm not around, but he much prefers to nurse. And so he makes up for the fact that I'm not around all day, by being up half the night most nights. I'm somewhat loathe to try to train him out of this, because I know at some point he'll train out of it himself anyway, and I know he really is hungry when he wakes up, and I know at some point I really will miss this together time with him, even if it IS two in the morning. Sigh.

The last few nights I've been so exhausted I've been having a hard time staying awake past 9 or so. But I had things to do last night, so I was still up at 11 when both Abby and Sam woke up screaming. This did not bode well for the night (Sam usually doesn't wake up THAT early, and when he does, it usually means a LONG night for me). So, Seth fed Abby while I fed Sam and then we both collapsed into bed in hopes of grabbing at least a couple hours of sleep before the screaming began. Funny thing, though… either we were so tired we slept through it (unlikely), or a miracle happened.

Next thing we knew, the alarm went off at 5am, Seth brought me Ellie for her breakfast and then next thing I knew, it was 6am and time for Abby and Sam to eat. A new day had begun. Is it possible that I got a whole six hours of uninterrupted sleep? Could it be? And if so, how is it that I'm still so tired today?

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