Being a twin mommy is hard work! Yeah its rewarding but you have not one but two babies to take care of so if one has a bad night well then your cranky the next day taking care of the two of them but it both have a rough night you practically don’t sleep. Yes this has been my life now for the past 2 nights. My Daughter is extremely clingy all day and all night. She woke up pretty much every hour at about 3am I just took her into bed with me. But that did not work as well as I had hoped yeah she slept better but she slept on my head or kicking me in the back of the head, I woke up at one point and she was clawing my face. (yes I need to cut nails but that’s a different story for a different time) Now to top off her (and my) sleepless night her brother woke up about oh every 3hours or so! Though I think he did get one 5hr stretch at one point, details are now a bit fuzzy. I now understand how sleep deprivation is a form of torture! I mean if I was being interrogated and kept awake I’d probably admit to whatever they asked me to in order to just get some sleep! The thing is I was always the kind of person who needed at least 8hrs of good quality sleep. Yeah there were times when I’d stay up to late or not sleep for a night because there were things going on that I did not want to miss but then I had the luxury of sleeping in the next day or sleep for the whole weekend to catch up. But now I don’t have the ability to do that and I feel like I may fall apart! Here is the most amazing part though, I know I won’t! It truly amazes me that I can push way past what I view as my limit, I can dig down deep and pull on reserves that I did not know existed! It is incredible what a person is capable of if we would not (or when in a situation when you can’t) limit ourselves!
I know I can do this b/c G-d never asks of us more then we can handle and if we feel as though its to much we need to know that Hashem is giving us the tools we need to keep going we just have to open ourselves up to receiving it!
