We are in the process of trying to work out how much sleep and awake time these boys need. When they were born, they would sleep for 2hours, wake and feed and fall asleep again..... but apparently, a baby that is about 3-4months old is awake for hours at a time during the day and has longer sleeps at night...... at some point, their sleep/wake cycles change... and it seems this time is now.
They seem to like some awake time in the morning with a little nap. Benji needs a longer nap than Ethan.... and sometimes will refuse to sleep if Ethan is not with him, but Ethan will scream if he's put to bed and does not want to sleep. It's tricky!
Over the weekend we had some family visit. On Saturday we took them for a nice walk in their pram down by the water. They looked around and were awake for a while, then fell alseep. It worked well, and they were very happy most of the day. We bought them home and they had a nice sleep in the afternoon and slept well that night.
On Sunday morning our visitors were still here. The boys were both tired, but ethan would not sleep. There was a party going on and he wasn't invited!!! We decided we'd take them to the park (as our family has kids that are old enough to play at the park) The boys seemed happy and were awake for a very long time before falling asleep right at the end. We got them home and poor benji was so over tired that he would not settle to sleep and kept on crying.... nothing helped.... he finally fell asleep after about an hour of crying and being settled and crying again. That was too much awake time and too much stimulation for them, and then we had a bad evening and a bad night sleep. We have to work out the happy mediums of sleep/wake time.
On a more fun note, our boys are becoming very smiley and we've even had some laughs! They love to smile at their mummies faces and voices and also at the winne the pooh pictures we have on the wall near the change table.
We're sorry we dont have any new pics to upload.... Sal has started work and life has become busier for both of us. We'll have to make an effort to get more pics on soon.
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