Sleep Schedules

I thought it was babies, not their moms, who get their days and nights mixed up. Rebecca and Susanna have actually been sleeping very well, usually only waking up once during the night. So you’d think I would sleep blissfully and awake full of vim and vigor. Well, much to my surprise, I am full of vim at three o’clock in the morning (I had to look up “vim” to see if it really was a word: indeed, it means “ebullient vitality and energy”). Once the girls are fed and put back to bed, I practically have to listen to the their lullaby CD’s to get myself to sleep. Some of you may have noticed that I tend to return e-mails at that time, since it seems a shame to waste the time awake laying in bed! Unfortunately, my supply of vim wanes as morning draws near. By the time the girls are ready for their next feeding at seven or eight o’clock, I can barely drag myself into the nursery. And of course, once fed, the girls are bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and I am bleary-eyed and far from bushy. I think I need to take some lessons from the girls as to how to reset my internal clock. Maybe I ought to follow their pattern: At eight o’clock in the evening, I’ll bathe, then eat until I can’t see straight, give a good belch, eat some more, have a good cry, then nestle down to sleep next to my sister. How about it, Angie – you want to fly out for a sisterly slumber party? All in the name of a good night’s sleep!