sleeping beauty (s)

M & T have been great sleepers.

We were very blessed from day one with M. She slept thru the night at five weeks, which was fabo! She slept in a crib that we used from a work friend and then she moved into her own cot when she was 7 weeks old.

She would sleep from 10pm to 6am and then fall back asleep with me in our bed after Daddy had left for work and then we would hop up and have some breakfast and a play and then she would be back down for a morning sleep and then would have an afternoon sleep and then back to bed at 7:30pm. She didnt drop the morning sleep until after we moved to WW, so she was pbly about 15/16 months old.

At the moment she sleeps from 7:30pm - 7:30am (approx) and has one lunch time sleep that is around 1-3 hours long, depending on what we have been doing. She sleeps in her cot with Big Teddy, George, Schntiz & Blue Teddy. She has a pink wrap and a pink "happy". She can fall asleep without the happy, but usually asks for it.

The first time that we gave her the happy was when she was about 4 weeks old and was having trouble settling one sunday night, so we gave it a try and it worked, so it stayed... I continue to struggle with whether or not I should take it from her, but it provides her with comfort and she falls straight asleep when she has it, so I still dont know what to do.

T was a very up and down sleeper in the first few weeks of life, but that could have been due to the fact that we moved town and house when she was 4 weeks old. She finally settled into a good sleeping routine when she was around 10 weeks old, which is when she slept thru the night for the first time.

Before we moved, she was sleeping in a cradle from a friend because we were trying to sell the house, so had packed up the other cot already. She was in our room which meant neither of us got much sleep because she tossed and turned all night! When we moved, she went into a little room that was just off our bedroom and she was in her big cot in there.

She sleeps with a white happy and a purple teddy and purple hippo and also a monkey (that hasnt been named as yet).

At the moment, T sleeps from 7:30 - 7:30 (approx) and then has a morning sleep at 9am for about an hour and then also has a lunchtime sleep at about 1pm. If she is really tired in the afternoon, she will have a nap between 5-6pm, which sometime she really needs if it has been a big day.

Both girls were wrapped up whilst they slept for a long time. M went until she was around 9 months and T went until about 7 months, when she would roll over and get stuck. At the time that T stopped being wrapped, she started scratching her face, so to stop this we were putting little socks on her hands. This also helped with the cold weather!

I think they get their love of sleep from their Mumma!