Our first night home with Little Man was as fun as our first night home with Lil’ Monster and Silly Girl. All three of our critters have had something that they became accustomed to in the hospital and then wanted at home. The fun times for us was finding what worked.
For Silly Girl we found out that she didn’t like being cold.
We put Silly Girl to bed at a very decent and reasonable time but at 3:00 AM we finally had her asleep (when we gave up and put her in the middle of us).
We had to put a heated throw blanket in her bed and turn it on before bed and turn it off once she was in. We then had to dress her in a onesie, long johns and a sleeper and snuggle her then lay a blanket over the top.
For Lil’ Monster we found out that she didn’t like laying flat in her bed or laying free.
Once again we finally went to sleep at another unreasonable time of the early morning hours. Since Lil’ Monster was born in June we didn’t think she was cold. That and because she was already wrapped up warm Learned that from the first one remember.
So we scratched our heads and thought about what we might have
to do make her to go to sleep.
It came down to lifting her bed up at one end so she wasn’t laying flat. We also had to take all of the extra receiving blankets and roll them together to make a ring for her to sleep in.
For The Terrorizer we were up until 1:30 AM again at a very unreasonable time we finally went to sleep but this time with my night table lamp left on.
So for the first two or three nights that we were home I gave in for the need of sleep and left my lamp on so we could get some sleep.
Around the fourth night or so we tried turning the lamp off and woo hoo we slept.
It really is remarkable what we have had to do just to get a little sleep. Or as Papa Bear may say to keep me sane, happy and sleeping.
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