sleep regression

The boys were sleeping beautifully until.... last week. Coinsidence? I think NOT!

Pfft!

I mean it could be a number of things, but I have a feeling it has to do w/ MIL. I hate to make the posts abt MIL-bashing (that's why I write a positive thing at the end) but I guess that's what I'm dealing with right now..... MIL!

hOops started the trend. And it doesn't surprise me b/c yOyo is a bigger "pet bolly". (After giving birth my brain was so fried I interchanged letters/words all the time and one day I meant to say "pot belly piggy" and I said "pet bolly" instead and we laughed so hard, the nickname stuck, hee hee) well, after 2 nights of hOops SLEEPING 7 hours (8 hr between feedings) yOyo followed suit and HunHun and I were getting a good chunk of sleep each!

They weren't waking up at the same time, but only waking up once was great for us! We were making progress!!

Well, last week that all changed. They BOTH went back to 4 hour blocks in between eating, so that's really less than 4 hours of sleep! Grrrrr!!!

Here are my theories: MIL has them overstimulated, the sips of water in between feedings, eating and napping schedule is off, or a growth spurt. Oh yea, and missing mommy?? Lol

But seriously, something threw them off. And after MIL asked this morning how the boys spent the night, we tell her and she says... "yea, but that was MONTHS ago that they slept that long!!" As if we were making this up! And HunHun and I both stopped her and told her it was up until last week. She stopped and paused. Then told me "I" HAVE to adjust my feeding schedule and amount of formula I give them at night - to INCREASE the amounts! Uhm, yea... really? Increase the amount of milk on the feedings we're trying to eventually have eliminated?! HunHun interrupted and told her, they were sleeping the 7 hours on 5 oz versus the 6 oz we started them up on during the day (to cut back on MON ounces).

Grrr! That's the sort of stuff I mean. We tell her what's going on, w/o really saying she's at fault and she turns to tell me how to do it her way!

So, after a discussion w/ HunHun on the way to work, we decided to keep monitoring what MIL writes on the chart and give it until next week, since we're mid week already. Maybe it IS a growth spurt after all.... and hopefully when they adjust to MIL and get over this regression we'll all be back to sleeping longer stretches!