Sleepless In Carleton Place

Last night was Kim's birthday and she commented on how it would be nice to sleep more than three hours in a night and how she was jealous of me because I always got up with the second waking baby (almost always Lukas) and she got the first.

You see, the nightly routine is like this:

~10-11pm - feed and get boys ready for bed.

~2-3am - Sean wakes up for eating, and usually takes about an hour to eat and get back to sound sleep.

~4-5am - Lukas wakes up for eating and is usually back in bed after 30-45 minutes.

~6-7am - Sean wakes up for morning breakfast and I'm getting ready for work so Kim takes over.

So when Kim gets the first baby to wake up, she sometimes only gets 3 hours of sleep before and after. I on the other hand typically get 5-6 hours of sleep in one block.

So last night being Kim's birthday I agreed to get the first baby (most likely Sean) and let her sleep longer.

So in bed at 10pm. Good start. Sean wakes up at 2 on the dot. I stumble out of bed, get dressed, grabbed the grunting baby, change him, feed him, rock him to sleep and try to put him back in bed at around 2:45am. No way dad, he replied! So we went back downstairs and I was so tired at this time I tried sleeping on the couch with him. It works and we drift off.

At 3:30 I wake up with sore shoulder, neck, back... not fun. But Sean is soundly asleep and goes back to his bassinet easily and I drift off in my own comfy bed again.

Lukas starts waking up at 4am and I wake up too. I don't get out of bed but have to wait for Kim to wake up and get him. She finally heads downstairs with him and I drift off again.

Until 5am when Sean wakes up looking for some more food. Groan! I really stumble out of bed this time and barely navigate the stairs to the living room. As I feed the poor boy I fall alseep and Kim has to poke me to burp him. She takes over after seeing what a wreck I am and I go back to bed, turning off my alarm as I can't handle getting up at 5:45 this morning.

Needless to say, I'm moving a bit slower today than usual.