Hello!
My wife had twins (boy and girl) 4 weeks ago and we are really struggling to get any kind of sleep, especially at night (which, of course is to be expected!!!).
On most days we have help during the day from my wife?s mother but this is when the twins tend to be on their best behaviour!!! We have tried getting them into a routine - not letting them sleep too much during the day and feeding at 7pm, 11pm and then at 3am but they have been incredibly restless the past week and take ages to settle down and we simply don?t get even an hour or two to rest at any stage.
To compound things, our little girl has colic so is pretty much up all night.
Now that I?m back at work, my wife is awake pretty much round the clock and is reaching the point where if she doesn?t get a couple hours of sleep she might go mad!!!! I know that we shouldnt be expecting to get 8 hours sleep a night (oh, how I miss those nights!!!) but we need a few hours at least. we have tried sharing the responsibility of looking after the twins but as they are being largely breastfed this is proving difficult
Does anybody know where I can find a highly recommended nanny who would be willing to stay with us for 2-3 nights a week for a few weeks so that we can at least try and catch up on our sleep??
Four weeks of chronic sleep deprivation is really taking its toll!!!!
Thank you!