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Why I am tired

Some of you are wondering what it is like to feed triplets. It's a pretty busy job. Nights are the hardest obviously and so far I've had lots of help. This was my night last night (and this is with help at each feeding):

Babies ate from :

10 pm - 11 pm
I slept from 1130 til about 1am (1.5 hrs)
then from 1:10 - 2:00 am but Liam was awake until 2:40.

I slept from 2:40 - 3:30 (50 minutes) - that's when Evan and Liam fussed and woke me up. Luckily they settled back down and I slept from 3:40 - 4:45 (1 hr and 5 min).

All the boys ate again from 4:45 - 615 or so. I slept from 615 until 650 (35 min). 6:50 is when Caden woke up. The babies are still sleeping but Caden has me up.

So - after tallying up those times - I slept 4 hours broken up into 4 separate increments. Ouch. And that pretty much describes each night this week. Except one night the beginning of the week you have to throw in an episode of Caden waking up crying at 1230 at night.

So ya - SLEEPY! Luckily Judy is here and I can nap during the day but I dream of sleeping for more that 2 hours at a stretch. So if you are getting that - don't say you have nothing to be grateful for.

That all sounds like complaining and I suppose it is but it is so worth it. And of course, someday, I am going to miss this :)

Comments

I hear you loud & clear Jen. I'm so glad those days are over for me. I remember one night when I actually wrote down every time I had to get out of bed to either feed or settle the boys. I was up pretty much every 10 minutes from midnight to 8am!! Now that was a fun night! LOL Hope you never experience one like that.
Craig,Leah,Lena said…
wow, Jen! that's incredibly. 4 hours of straight sleep is hard enough to function on! i can't imagine it being interrupted 4 times!
yeah, a nice long night of sleep would probably make things a lot easier eh?! hopefully that's not too far away! take care over there!
Anonymous said…
Jen, I feel for you! Nate was 4 years old before he slept through the night. My fantasy was not to have a gorgeous wonderful man to romance me (as I was single), it was to have a magazine in a hotel room all by myself and sleep for 8 whole hours! And you have 4! Best wishes!
Kim

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