Welcome Richelle. I love all the boards on BW but this chat thread is definitely the best. It's great to have moms to vent to that have los the same age as you! It has been my lifesaver the last few weeks.
Thanks for posting pics everyone. It's so much fun seeing what everyone looks like. Naomi...I love that pic of Riley. She had so much hair when she was born! You look great too. There is NO WAY I would post the pic of me in the hospital. I looked horrid.
Erin...we haven't had the time change here yet. I think we pretty much had to follow suit with you guys and do it later. I think it would have messed up too many things with stock markets etc if we didn't co-ordinate with the all powerful US of A :wink: I don't even know what day they do go back!
Judy-I just saw your post as I was writing this (I scrolled down to look at something and voila, there you were). How many hours are the girls getting at night? 7pm til ? To give you an idea, Cole is typically getting 11-12 hours at night, and his naps are 1.5, 45 and 45-1.25 for a total of about 14.5-15 hours. IF the girls are getting 12 hours at night and 5 during the day I think that's a lot of sleep, but what do I know :?
Last night he slept 6:40pm-5:30 am and I think if he was down earlier he would have woken happy and played until 6 like the other day. I am now waking him from catnap by 3:45 for a 6:15 bedtime. I'm really tempted to say that your girls could do with two naps and an early bedtime. I experimented with Cole's bedtime starting at around 8pm. He used to go to bed at 9 or 10 so I figured 8 was a good start. It just kept getting earlier and earlier. I find if he goes down after 6:15 he wakes in the night or early in the morning.
Could you stretch your girls just a smidge (5-10 min.) during each awake time to get them to go down by 6pm? I KNOW it's crazy early and I don't know how that would work into the sched. with the other two girls. I've heard you need to have an earlier bedtime at first when getting rid of the catnap anyway.
What time do they wake from catnap? maybe they aren't tired at 7:00 when you're trying to put them down if too close to when they woke and hence not settling for an hour? coles last A time is 2.5 hours. Yesterday he was so tired and 2.5 A would have meant a 6:40 bedtime (because I let him take a long catnap-oops). I put him down at 6:10 and he settled pretty well...BUT woke at around 6:35 and cried a few minutes until 6:40. It's like he's not ready until being up 2.5 hours even if he had a 30 min. catnap. not sure if any of that helped...maybe, maybe not!
I am going to work out now on my Bowflex which has been dormant for months! I decided it's time to get back into shape
I'm going to try to do weights 30 min. M/W/F and run 30 min T/TH/Sat. I'll run when DH gets home since Cole will be sleeping
alright, I've babbled enough as usual. keep the pics coming!
Traci