The Morning After Day 1 Sleep Training

I'm tired.

Over the past two weeks or so, our girls have been getting up only twice during the night to eat - once around 10pm or 11pm and another time between 2am and 3am. Knowing this, we knew that when they cried at these times after being asleep for a while, this meant that they were hungry.

After the crying fits at 9pm last night, they slept until 11pm at which point they started crying again and so we went in and fed them. It was 100% bottled breast milk - quicker and minimizes the time we spend feeding them. They went down again at 11:30pm and actually slept within a few minutes of being put down. Fast forward to 3am when they again woke up and wanted to be fed. I nursed them, gave them top up bottles of breast milk to make sure they were full and put them back to bed at around 3:30am.

At the beginning of the night, it was Victoria fussing and crying her eyes out. Starting at 3;30am, it was Caitlyn who kept crying. Victoria started things off but she fell asleep by about 3:45am but Caitlyn cried and fussed until 4:15am, right at the 45 minute mark. She then slept until 5:30am and then she fussed on and off until 7am. She would cry for about 10 minutes, be quiet and drift off for about 10 minutes, than cry again, sleep again...on and off for an hour and a half.

We got up shortly before 7am and fed the two of them breakfast.

It's 9:09am and they're down for their first nap of the day. Napping is a whole other beast according to this book but at least I can do whatever I want to get them to sleep and that includes rocking them to sleep and holding them. One thing at a time...I am dreading tonight already.