I haven't slept through the night...

Sleep is so much better than it was, but I am yet to sleep through the night or sleep in. Sigh. However, here's what it was like:

• In the beginning we had to wake the girls every two hours to feed them. They slept most of the rest of the time, but I couldn't. I was too nervous they'd need me. I was literally delirious. Babies everywhere. Hope I remember that and sleep with the next babe/s.
• Then there was chaos. Months 1 -4 we couldn't go to sleep before about 11. Colic was in full force at week 11 and ended at 4 months and three days (3 months after their due date).
• At four months, Mama figures out how to sleep with the girls attached. Mama gets in bed at 7 and gets up with the girls about 8. She gets up to pee sometimes, to the soundtrack of frantic crying. It took me a month to catch up on sleep.
  
• There was the occasional morning nap where I could put them in their swings. But 5 months, I gave up trying to transfer them and held them through all three of their naps. The laptop has recently mad an appearance. Mama surfs and edits Infinite Intelligence.
• At 6 months I have to get in the bed with them and stay there at 8. (I'd had a month to watch prime time if I wanted; they slept through it). They no longer sleep through me surfing, so naps move from the chair to the bed.
  
• At 7.5 months I can get up for a minute or two at night. But 9 months, I can get up for half an hour about twice a week.
  
• By ten or 11 months, I'm getting up most every evening, baby-free. Still not enough time to do yoga, though. Then the babies learn they can get up too. Which they do, every night, for about a month, starting around their birthday. This prompts me to agree to consider CIO, even though it goes against everything I know. I redo the research and freak out crying in the kitchen one day. I know it is wrong, so we discuss getting a king size organic mattress instead. When will that tax return come? (After we send in our taxes, I'm sure.)
• Bedtimes are relatively easy again (I lie with them for about 20 minutes usually), and we're down to one nap most days, though the time is still fluctuating. The girls go to bed about 7, and sometimes they go as long as two hours without calling out. Sometimes they still break out into tears if I get up for the bathroom, but it's nothing like it used to be.
• Chris wonders when "we" can just lay them down in bed and go about our merry evening. Will it be before they turn two? I'm thinking it might be after we move....
  

(The girls love the freezer. Grandma D caught them pillaging recently....)