To think DH will sleep through the inevitable zombie apocalypse?

[SinkGirl]

Both twins awake, yelling, using their cots as trampolines. One is banging his cup against his cot bars like an inmate.

DH is snoring

Seriously, how? The twins never wake him up. I’m the one with ME, his health is fine!

In 3.5 hours my alarm will go off so I can get up and sort lunches and clothes for nursery. The twins will wake up but he won’t. I’ll have to wake him up and then he’ll say “why didn’t you wake me up earlier?” - I am not your mother, set a bloody alarm like I do every day because I’m so exhausted from having been up in the night with the little convicts

When they were babies he was so helpful during the night, feeding and changing them while I pumped. When I stopped there were a few nights where I was so exhausted he didn’t wake me at all and just dealt with it.

But now he’s dead to the world.

Tell a lie, he’s just woken up a little, rolled over and gone back to sleep. Lovely.

Considering getting him a smart watch so I can check whether he’s actually sleeping this deeply or just faking it

Anyone else with one of these?

A clothes peg will help.

Get the smart watch and get yourself some noise cancelling headphones.

Yes! DH can sleep anywhere, anytime and through anything.
A few weeks ago I hoovered around him (really) and he didn’t wake.

A few months ago I was vomiting loudly and he woke, sat up, said “Are you okay?” and fell straight back to sleep.
He had no memory of it the next day.

He works so hard I’m glad he has the skill to sleep so well, but do wonder about future DCs and night wakings!

My husband doesn't snore, but he would sleep through an army of savages rampaging through our house. It must be a gift because I wake up if the cat farts.

Feel for you. Like you DH has slept through/snored with baby twins in bed with me screaming for a feed in the middle of the night several times - never moved an inch.

He has also slept though a massive rain storm and the roof on the bay window in our bedroom springing a leak and water gushing in. Dog was barking, I was running to get a bucket and towels. He woke up hours later wondering why the room smelt a bit damp and cold.

My dh never woke with the babies until recently, they're now 4 and 7. Now he is the only one who wakes and I have completely switched off. It's definitely his turn! 😂

I just can’t imagine what a lie in is even like any more. It has been months.

I just find it bonkers that they can sleep through such a ruckus - what if we were both like that?! Kids would be a bit screwed wouldn’t they?!

Well, it’s worth thinking about what would happen if you both slept deeply. Assuming twins are no longer little babies, they don’t actually need you during the night, and at some point would get bored and go back to sleep...not necessarily encouraging this as parenting technique but it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

Mine also does the same. One particular night one of them started screaming and hitting the door at 2am (she shouts/yells etc in her sleep), I just about had a heart attack but he slept right through everything. He always has done.

Not that simple sadly - they both have autism so them being awake and unsupervised is not a good idea! Normally I just watch on a video monitor if they don’t need anything particularly like replacing their sheet for the 8th time or yet more waterand eventually they settle to go back to sleep, but we are still managing to keep them in cots at the moment with the help of sleeping bags. Once the sides come off, there’s no way they could be up without one of us being at least conscious!

Wake him up and tell him to deal with them every now and then.

You can’t change him - you can only change your behaviour. Yes it sucks but if you want (and need!) sleep then you have to be more blunt.

DH once slept through bombs going off, basically in the middle of a battle... So explosions, sirens, shouting etc. When it was realised he was missing and people sent to search for him he was merrily snoring away in bed.
As babies, he could sleep through me being up a few times a night.
Oddly now they are older, he wakes only seconds after me if one is wandering at night. He wakes if his work phone rings at night too.

He's sleeping as he knows you will deal with it.