CROSSING OUR FINGERS: I slept in my bed!!!!!

SO sleeping in your own bed may seem common practice for most people but if you follow my Blog, you'll know I have been sleeping sitting up on the couch for a good 3 months! My little ones have strongly preferred my cuddles at night and the only way I could figure out how to get everyone sleep was to let them sleep on the nursing pillow on me! I am very proud to say (knock on wood!!!) that I slept in my bed all night with my husband last night!!! WOO HOO!! Thu-Sat we were able to get Walker in the pack and play with no issues after nursing but Jocelyn would only stay asleep in the swing. Oh well....deal (we'll work on that later). I was able to sleep laying down on the couch. Last night we made the transition to their room and I brought the "sleepy" swing to their room. I nursed them in the guest room till they fell asleep and Nick moved them for me. Walker went down with no issues but Jocelyn took a couple times of re-nursing and rocking. Finally got her down in the swing. I keep trying the bed with her once a night in hopes she'll like it one of these times. Walker just kind of clicked and is able to settle himself. Jocelyn's just not quite there yet. She seems to be a few days to a week behind him in a lot of milestones (although she was ahead in "talking"...go figure ;-) ) SO we are in hopes that she'll take to the crib soon. No crying (again...knock on wood) and I'm able to get them back down after waking for food. I am trying NOT to tandem at night because I get stuck (feel stuck anyway!) so at 1:15am Walker woke up and fed him and got him back down. Went to the bathroom to give him a minute to settle then got Jocelyn "up" and more or less dream fed her. Then at 4:15 she woke up and I did the same thing the other way around. They woke for the day at 6:30. SO excited. I feel amazing! Tired but my body feels so much better. Now we need to work on moving up the time I go upstairs to nurse them to sleep. I'm so excited! Hopefully it keeps up and Jocelyn catches on soon. We'll work on naps next. A quick update...for their early morning nap this morning we got BOTH of them to sleep laying down in their pack and plays!!

Maybe Jocelyn is already making progress or Walker is telling her how lovely it is to stretch out in bed! ;-) Thank heavens we are making progress!!!

The babies are really alert now and love to play. Walker loves the Jumperoo and Jocelyn really likes the exersaucer but in small bits. She's really into the Rainforest bouncy chair right now. Here's a couple videos: