Twin mom dinner

Last week I went to a little get together with other twin mommies in the area. It was really fun and I left with a bit of a new perspective on parenting twins. After talking with all the other mommies I realized I was the only and I mean ONLY mom who doesn't keep their littles on the same schedule pretty much no matter what.

I started out this way. If one ate both ate, if one was up both were up and somewhere along the way, maybe around 4-5 months, I just kind of let them pave their own path. We ended up with Zoe waking up around 7am, Nora waking up around 8:30am. Thus, naps were occuring for someone ALL day long around here, bedtimes were spanned about an hour and a half and if I ever needed to leave the house someone was always missing a nap and fussy! I was always feeding one and having to write down who ate when because Zoe would eat at 7, Nora at 9, Zoe again at 10, Nora at 12....see my point! :) 

Anyway, I left that dinner and decided that I was going to take back my life, even if just a little bit! Who are we kidding, I won't ever truly have my life back with two soon to be three baby girls (and I wouldn't have it another way I might add) but I decided a change was in order! 

Zoe is completely over 3 naps a day and is pretty much the easiest baby on the planet. With no work, no sleep training, nada, she sleeps 12-13 hours a night, naps from 9-10:15 and again from 1-3:15. She then happily plays until 6:45 and drifts off to sleep without a hitch. Nora...umm bless her little heart. She is more of a spirited soul! I forgot to mention that Nora was insisting on a 5 or 6pm nap for about 20 minutes lately and wakes up and stays up until 10:00pm! Not ok when Zoe is out cold by 6:45! So I decided that I was going to keep Nora up and make her skip her third little nap. Hoping that she would just go to bed at an earlier time and be more on track with Zoe. 

Well, it was a miraculous thing and it actually worked. Nora powered through and skipped her third nap and went to bed the first night at 8:45 then 8:00 and last night went down at 7:30! I have been stretching her to keep her up until 1pm so she naps later and the past couple days she napped until 3:00 and was perfectly fine until bed. However, staying up until a 1pm nap is still a little hard for her. :( 

But the past three days I have had 9-10am and 1-3pm TO MYSELF!! Like, rush to wash bottles, brush my teeth, do my work out, fold some laundry and then sit on the couch with a cup of coffee and watch Duck Dynasty TO MYSELF time! This is a far cry from the serial napping, baby always up, baby always needing something while the other was being fed or put down! It's been great and I think Nora will catch on here completely in the next few days and be able to easily make it to her 1pm naptime! 

So thanks twin mommies for the reality check!! I think I needed it!! :)