The twins are now 18 weeks old and I’m still on cloud 9. Well, maybe cloud 8 – I have had some post partum depression/anxiety this time around and gone onto sertraline, but overall I’m counting my lucky stars
My oldest son was a dream baby. He slept through the night (11pm-6am) from 10 weeks and I remember having maybe 5 sleepless nights at all before that (thanks to colic). He was a chilled baby, and everyone said that there’s no way I’d be so lucky again AND it would be twice the work
These babies are a dream. From birth they were in a solid routine of feeing at 11pm, 3am, 7am every. night so I was only waking up once. It was manageable, I knew the drill with ready made formula so never once had to get out of bed to get their bottles, fed them both simultaneously and we were all back to sleep within 30 minutes.
By 10 weeks, they were sleeping 7pm-7am. 12 HOURS! Straight! 8 weeks on they are still doing that, the most they’ve woken for is MAYBE 3 or 4 nights where they’ve just had their dummy/pacifier put back in and gone straight back to sleep
They are just amazing. They’re chilled during the day too, we are all in a great routine of naps, and I’m more relaxed about when things happen. I’m much more of the belief that they will just have to fall asleep while I’m running errands
Working from home has been a miss, so sadly the biggest change is that they are starting daycare next month (just one day a week but I’m already heartbroken over it!) I struggle to find the time to reply to emails or do an hour of work during the day, and while a lot I can catch up with at night once they’re in bed, clients want meetings during the day which they’re not happy about. I often have to zoom with clients while feeding a baby and while most are understanding it’s not ideal
So, that’s life with twins. So many people laughed and said I wouldn’t cope, but here I am doing a pretty damn good job of it if I do say so myself. My boys are my life, I am SO lucky to have them and I tell them every single day that I don’t know what I did to get so lucky.
Though I don’t post much on here, you can find me over on Instagram under going.solo.mama and I’d love for you to follow me!