This is definitely worth writing down for posterity! Here's our current schedule, which centres more around mammy and daddy getting sleep then the demands of the poor twins!
8pm-1am: I go to bed while Sean does the 10pm feed on his own
1am: We both do the feed together, which takes half the time
2am-7am: Sean goes to bed while I do the 4am feed on my own (takes an hour if I'm lucky)
7am: We both do this feed, unless I feel generous and let Sean sleep in
10am: We both feed, top and tail, and dress the twins for the day
1pm-4pm: Usually I've a helper (Mam) to share these feeds
7pm: Sean and I do this feed together and put the twins down for the night
Coinciding with all of that, I've learned the skill of hands-free pumping, so express during each feed and a few times in between, while Sean does the sterilising, goes grocery shopping, loads the dishwasher, does the laundry and cooks dinner! The twins are in sync with the feeding schedule, but unfortunately not yet in sync with sleeping. So when one is sleeping his/her head off, the other is usually wide awake. Lucy is the night owl that comes to life at around 2am and Ronan is awake mostly in the day.
So the schedule is pretty good, none of us are too sleep deprived and killing each other yet. It'll all change when Sean goes back to work though, he'll need his sleep to bring home the bacon.
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Dáša said...
ReplyDeleteuuuhhh, I see that you have your regime organized and that sleep made it to the top of the priority list. I can only imagine that the feeding itself is an ordeal. It consumes most of ones day even with one baby... you just have to train them to hold their own bottle fairly soon : )
Oh and one more remark:
Hands-free pumping, I am amazed, well done mum!