So, it’s been… what?… a week and a bit since we turned off the monitor in our bedroom? I have to tell you, I feel like a new woman! Are we still waking up in the night? Sometimes. When we do it’s maybe 2 times… 3 if the kids are at the peak of a cold. But compared to waking up 5 times every night, this seems like heaven. 🙂 Not only that, but even those 2 times we wake up don’t always mean we go into their room anymore. It’s easier to get back to sleep if you haven’t had to get out of bed in the first place.
We can still hear the girls. They don’t even have to be terribly loud for us to hear them. But it doesn’t wake us up quite as quickly, and it’s easier to let them go for a bit before getting them. Branwen is learning to put herself back to sleep, and I’m guessing Alexis is, too, since she hasn’t been waking us up nearly as much lately.
Now we just need to master the whole “getting out of bed when I shouldn’t” thing with Alexis and we’ll be set. 🙂