Bayus is so funny. Around 8-8:30 every night, on the dot, he wants to nurse with low lights and lullaby's and he's down for the night (nursing in his sleep about 2-3 times). My other two could be out till all hours of the night, fall asleep anywhere or not fall asleep but still be happy as clams. Bayus isn't fussy per se but he wants to nurse for like 2 seconds (if we aren't in the right enviroment) and then falls asleep- off and on and off and on he goes until I actually take him to bed for real.

Anyhow it has been funny to me to look at the clock every night and see his own little pattern emerging. I'm not sure how this will affect our usually activities once they get going again but we'll do what we can.

So what patterns did your little one come with?

Sarah

mine came with the pattern that he wants to be latched on 24-7 :)

oh..but he's sleeping great at night..which i'm enjoying...right next to me...but sleeping soundly most of the night...

Mine will stick with a pattern several days in a row, then change a little bit. He likes a long morning & afternoon nap already (2 months), but in the sling & then at 7:30pm he's fussy until I'll lay down with him on the couch. Its funny how they have their own ptterns already!

A major upside to this predictability is that for 2 nights in a row now I've been able to get all 3 kids down and asleep at the same time before 9pm. Do I win some sort of award? Or maybe the quiet free time was my reward :)

I am not a scheduled person so this has all been rather interesting and funny to me to watch unfold. We'll see if this is a long term preference of Bayus' or a short lived thing

Sarah

A major upside to this predictability is that for 2 nights in a row now I've been able to get all 3 kids down and asleep at the same time before 9pm. Do I win some sort of award? Or maybe the quiet free time was my reward :)

I am not a scheduled person so this has all been rather interesting and funny to me to watch unfold. We'll see if this is a long term preference of Bayus' or a short lived thing

Sarah


me no likey you :lol: you are blowing me away with the ease of the transition from 2 to 3 kids! Ellery has no schedule..heck Cody won't stick to one either! :lol:

My other kids have no schedule but they are really laid back for the most part so I can impose various schedules at various times and they are generally cool with that. I finally figured out how to get them to go to sleep in their own rooms without me staring at them until they fell asleep (aka I can put them to bed and go onto other things). First I was thinking the room needed to be dark, then they didn't like that so we went thru various degrees of nightlights. Now I just tell them that if they lay down quietly without playing then they can have the light on completly, I just come back half an hour later and turn it off as they are asleep then, but if they are wild- playing and talking then I have to turn the light off. Anyhow so we do jammies, tuck in, pray and sometimes read their chapter book (just finished Charlotte's Web this morning) and then I leave the lights on and remind them of our 'deal'. It works most of the time and the nights it doesn't dh goes in and lays with them.

Bear in mind I have barely been left alone with all 3 of them yet (just a few hours here and there), I haven't taken them all out yet by myself, and my sink is perpetually full of dirty dishes (though this is not a new development).

Sarah

A major upside to this predictability is that for 2 nights in a row now I've been able to get all 3 kids down and asleep at the same time before 9pm. Do I win some sort of award? Or maybe the quiet free time was my reward :)

Sarah


go enjoy your husband!!

Bear in mind I have barely been left alone with all 3 of them yet (just a few hours here and there), I haven't taken them all out yet by myself, and my sink is perpetually full of dirty dishes (though this is not a new development).

Sarah

:lol: I remember my first day alone with them!...I was so nervous I wouldn't be able to handle it. But I did. You will too!!! You should see my house, it's a disaster! Clutter, mess, dirty dishes, laundry...pretty much everywhere. But Ellery's happy! :)

:lol: I remember my first day alone with them!...I was so nervous I wouldn't be able to handle it. But I did. You will too!!! You should see my house, it's a disaster! Clutter, mess, dirty dishes, laundry...pretty much everywhere. But Ellery's happy! :)

sigh...............that makes me feel better :) I need more than a live in housecleaner- I need a live in clutter cleaner too!

Sarah

>I need more than a live in housecleaner- I need a live in clutter cleaner too!<

:D Well, I don't have a live in one, but I did hire a housekeeper & organizer to be here 12 hours a week. Of course my dh has been gone 8-8 everyday for the last month so virtually no help & I started watching another little boy during the day, too.

HA DON'T WE ALL??!! :lol:

Sully wakes up around 11 ad is up til 2AM -WORKING ON OUR 5TH DAY OF THIS :sleeping:

Traynor (18 mos) took awhile to develop a rhythym. He likes to nap between 10-11:00 am and he is ready to sleep sometime between 7-8:00 pm. All three kids are usually asleep by 8:00. :happy: The exception is that he and I have to be alone with no other voices, if he knows anyone else is in the house and awake he'll keep himself awake too.

That's great that you had the late evening to yourself! That quiet time is such a blessing.

Hey- I just checked in here to see if any of you mamas had graduated yet, and look at all of you. So, after one quick peek I'm addicted again. :)

Anyway, Sylvie has a pattern, and really seems kind of down for the night most evenings by 4:30 or 5:00. She wakes to nurse and potty (we're doing natural infant hygiene) but then is right back to sleep. Kind of weird. I think this staying home 6 weeks thing is making me more in tune to her, and it is giving her a chance to find a rhythm.

we were wondering what you named that wonderful daughter of yours!