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This morning I went into the girls room and found poor Mumu using a puffed out pee pee diaper as a pillow. No doubt it was soft and squishy, but standards babygirl! I can’t imagine how this happened. Yea right, I know exactly how it happened. Last night was brutal. I blame the pediatrician.

We went in for the twinnies 9 month checkup, and all was grand. Well, almost grand. Our pediatrician left the island to go live/practice in a fabulous Colorado ski town/resort, but not before she imparted some advice to me in hushed tones behind the baby scale: Get them off this island before they reach school age. She looks to her left and right. Don’t tell anyone I said that. Oh I know, sister. I was the only one over 19 in my OB’s waiting room. The girls will be coming of age elsewhere.

Her replacement is nice, great credentials and all that, but its not the same. Sigh. Anyway, so this was the first time we met the new doc and he was happy with the girls progress but of course he’d never met them at 3lbs, so he can’t really see how far they’ve come. Not holding that against him, just sayin… We were thrilled that they are in a comfortable position on the old growth chart and happily keeping pace with babies 2 months younger. Go superpreemies! But. But we did fess up that Lulu wakes us several times in the night wanting bottles and the doc said that has to stop. You can imagine how well that’s going! So it was hell night, a never ending stream of tears and yelling and 2 little zombie vampire babies trying to suck out the last dredges of our sanity. It was Thriller. Thriller night. But nobody was dancing…

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Okay not really, but after the night I had last night, I don’t think you could blame me for trading her in for some gypsy “lucky heather.” That baby of mine. Good Grief. I put her to bed with her twinnie Mumu at 7, the same time they go to bed every night, the same exact routine- solid food, tubby (boy do they need a tubby after solid foods), then bottle and bed. This is all grand, and she’s asleep straight away, but then…. come midnight she turns into a gremlin and screams all night for sheer devilment. She’s not hungry, not wet, not constipated, not gassy. She just wants to be held. This is the worst. Its like a magic switch: pick up baby, screaming stops. Put baby back in crib, she screams the house down.

Now I’ll admit that unlike her sister, Lulu has never been a champion sleeper at night (and since we put her in the same room as her sis, Mumu will probably never be a champion sleeper again) but- BUT- she normally does do SOME sleeping in the course of the night. Not last night. I guess she was just restless. I understand, I get restless too. I stay awake too- but I don’t scream bloody murder all night. Alright, I realize I’m 29 and she’s just under 7 months, so I’ll give her a free pass on the not knowing how to deal with restlessness situation, but I don’t know why she has to be so damn particular. Particular in that she won’t just snuggle with us in our bed and go back to sleep- no sir. She had to be held at a 45 degree angle against the chest. Then and only then will she sleep. Briefly. The only time she slept last night was when Jungledad held her just like this, at her special angle, while propped up with pillows on the couch. Of course the moment her put her back in her crib and tried to sneak back in bed to get some sleep, she went ape.

A friend of mine said that when her child was a newborn, the only way she and her husband could get the babe to sleep was to put her on a coffee table, with Daddy lying on the floor beside, arm raised in the air, infant sucking pinky. Apparently this went on long enough for the Dad to lose his pinky fingernail. The things we do to get babies to sleep.

Now where are those gypsies…

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