Accidental Cosleepers

This photo makes me laugh sooo much.  Not because it's just plain funny (because it is), but because I can totally relate to it as of late.

When I was pregnant, I didn't really think much about co-sleeping.  I won't get into details of my opinions right now on the topic, but I will say that I think that there are safe ways to cosleep, and I think that there are very unsafe ways to cosleep.  I think that you have to really prepare and research before deciding for yourself what is best.  Because I didn't really think about it much/research a whole lot about cosleeping during my pregnancy, that isn't what we chose to do with our boys.  We did however, have the boys sleep in a little "sidecar" crib that hooked onto the side of our bed for the first few months.  So we did cosleep in a way, I guess. 

Recently, we have become official cosleepers.  I don't know why, but our little Foxx has decided to no longer sleep peacefully through the night.  He goes to bed around 7, but somewhere between 10 and 2 he will wake up, and refuse to go back to sleep unless he is in bed with us.  We have tried rocking him back to sleep-he immediately wakes up when we lie him back down in his crib.  We tried letting him cry it out-that only made him scream worse, and in turn wakes up Judah.  We tried to let him sleep on us for a little while, and then lie him back in his crib-again, he would immediately wake up when we lay him down.  So Foxx now sleeps with us after he wakes up in the middle of the night, and has done so for about the past 3 weeks or so.

I can't say I'm upset about it though, I know it's only temporary, and I love the closeness and snuggles.  He either sleeps on my chest, or flat on the mattress next to us, with pillows on either side, in case he decides to roll.  Neither of us move much in our sleep (or we don't when a baby is in the bed anyhow), so worrying about rolling on top of him hasn't been an issue.  (I think there is a subconscious warning to my body that a baby is there!)  We all get more sleep this way, instead of being up and down all night with Foxx.  Judah hasn't had any sleeping issues, but he'll occasionally come join us an hour or so before it's time to actually wake up.    

I don't know what the cause of this night time waking is.  Maybe teething...both boys are getting their top 2 teeth (Foxx is actually getting 3 coming through on top).  

Accidental Cosleepers.

Anyone else's babies start waking up in the middle of the night around 9-10 months?

Lately

It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I'd just give an update of what our lives have been like lately...

I've been working a lot.  One extra 12 hour shift a week really doesn't seem like all that much, but I feel it.  It makes it worse because it's another day that I'm away from my boys.  That being said, I try and make the most of my days at home.  It's hard sometimes, because I'm super tired, but that's the life of a mom right?  

We haven't had much of a winter here in Nashville, I think I've only worn my heavy coat once or twice.  It feels like it's already in the early days of spring. I'm not complaining!  Today, it was around 70 degrees and sunny with a little breeze.  AMAZING.  Judah had a post-op urology appointment this morning (more on that later - all is ok, for now), and afterwards, we went to have a picnic at Centennial Park.  We got our favorite, Hog Heaven, and ate with our boys on a blanket on the grass.  

My boys are the cutest twins ever, right? Glad you agree. 

The boys have taken to food now, and we've started making our own baby food.  It's so much fun!  I have a whole list of food combinations that I plan on making here soon.  I'll do a separate post on how we do all that later.

And you've heard me brag on how much we like cloth diapering, well this morning just further proved our preference of cloth over disposable.  I stripped all of our cloth diapers today, so we had the boys in disposable for most the day.  This morning, a little while after Judah woke up, he smelled funky, so I went and changed him.  As soon as I unzipped his sleeper, poop emerged everywhere.  Like it went all the way up his back, up to the top of his shoulders.  I'm not even kidding.  His sleeper was covered.  He was kicking like crazy, getting poop all over his arms, legs, and my arms, legs and some how my bottom?  Anywho, I ran him straight upstairs and gave him a full on bath.  

All the way up the back of that sleeper!

Guess who can stand up on their own?  (while holding on to something, of course).  They love the pack and play.  They will sit in their, play with each other and with their huge stuffed animals, while laughing at us looking at them from outside the netting.  It's super cute.  

And about teething:  Foxx now has 2 little teeth popping through, right on the bottom front!  He is taking teething like a champ.  He is just as happy as ever!  No need for tylenol or cold teething rings, or baby orajel, he's a rockstar!  Judah still has no teeth to show for all his drool that covers our house, but I expect some to show up any day now!

  

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